The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-09
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ject, but with disastrous results 10 him
self. It is said that MS tactics will be TO
prolong the trial as long as possible. He
is said to have over 30 witnesses ready,
including a number of experts in hand
writing. This would Indicate that he in
tends to try to bring before the court the
original question of whether or not Drey-
fus was guilty of writing the bordereau,
and also perhaps of trying TO fasten it on
Esterhazy.
The bordereau. il viii be remembered
is the only piece of writing ever made
public in connection with the original
charges made against Dreyfus. 1t did not
contain any information which could not
have been gotten out of the ordinary mil
itary handbooks. but it was considered as
an evidence that the writer was acting
the part Of a spy for the German govern
ment. and it is frequently asserted that
the bordereau formed part OF collection
Of documents stolen from the German
embassy here photographed and then re-
turned
This fact, it is urged, the government
dare not admit, for the German ambas-
sador would surrender his passports with
in twenty-four hours and the country
would be brought TO the verge of wal
with Germany. Hence the government
cannot make public the reasons for Drey-
fus' condemnation and have no conclu-
sive reply TO make to those who declare
Dreyfus innocent
When the friends of Dreyfus accused
Esterhazy of writing the bordereau and
h e demanded a court martial. the gov
eminent was forced 10 give him a trial
in which the guilt or innocence of Drey-
fus was involved, but not solved. This
whether Dreyfus was guilty or innocent
foregone conclusion. Such is the sub
stance of Zola's charge.
The government will not. however. be
tempted into reopening the Dreyfus ques-
ton. 1t is evidently the government de-
sire to try lola on the specific charge oil
having libeled the war office by declar-
ing that the Esterhazy verdict was given
by the court martial Ito order without
regard to the evidence. 1t will be difficult
for lola TO prove that any orders were
given to the court martial to acquit Els
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probably go hard with him.
Public feeling is intense, but perhaps
it is Well for the country that it is sc
/ largely on one side. The sincere believers
in Dreyfus' innocence are not numerous
enough to upset the government. If the
two sides were more equally balanced
the agitation might result in civil war
AS it is the bourse has been unfavorably
affected and all kinds of volues are de-
pressed.
Well-meaning men. like Louis Havet. a
professor at the College of France. only
add fuel to the flame by suggesting that
the government go to the bottom and re-
open che Dreyfus case. This, of course
would be the logical thing TO do, unless
as limited above. questions of peace or war
with Germany are involved. There is nc
question of the sincerity of such men as
Professor Havet or Scheurer-Kestne
With the press it is different The Fl
caro-, which is ever ready to sell its col
umns to the highest bidder. when it found
that its course in taking up the Dreyfus
side was hurting its circulation. had sud
denly to face right about and offered as
a scapegoat one of its editors-in-chief, NJ
de Rodays. The Figaro has since been
boycotted by the army everywhere. and
it will be years before it RECEIVERS from
the blow.
The Steele is taking up the fight by
publishing letters written by Dreyfus to
his family since 1894. in which he asserts
his innocence, putting over them the
-
Dreyfus evidently has a stronger fol-
lowing in the press than he has with the
public. This is attributed by the mob to
the fact that he is a Jew, and that veal
thy Jews are buying up the press to de-
fend him. The RothschiIds are said Il
be interested and all sorts of wild reports
are current. This gives opportunity fol-
anti-Semitic agitators to inhame pub
lie opinion against the Jews. and the re-
suit is the anti-Jewish demonstrations
that have been witnessed in the past fort
night from one end of France to the 9TH
er and even as far away as Algiers.
The anti-Jewish movement is simply a
more limited manifestation of socialistic
and anarchistic ideas against capital, be-
cause in the middle ages the industrious
and thrifty Jews were almost the only
capitalists. But today there are many
other apitalists-Catholics. atheists and
Protestants-and the present demonstra-
tons bid fair to develop rapidly into at
tacks on the wealthy. simply because OF
their riches.
Already we hear ''plutocracy' denounc-
ed In terms very similar to those one oc-
casionally hears in America from Ad-
vanced Populists. Every enemy of ac-
cumulased wealth viii do his best in
stinctively to add to the agitation Great
cd by the Dreyfus case and ola's trial.
knowing that all outbreaks Of social dis
orders are bringing grists TO his mill.
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