The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-11

Copyright, 1898, by the Associated PreSS.)
Paris, Sept. Interpretation was dis
appointed today The ministerial coun-
Gil was to have held a special sitting
with the object of hearing the war
minister's account of the Dreyfus case
and the newly discovered delinquent
cies of the staff officers. But General
Zurlinden, finding he had not yet the
ground upon which to form sound
opinion, asked for an adjournment. He
is serious honorable minded, worthy
colleague of the conscientious Brisson,
and will be chosen to investigate the
Dreyfus affair as war minister, be-
cause he is not biased and is weighted
with a sense of the responsibility in
volved in the matter. Being a Protest
ant and of Bourgeois breeding, he does
not share the ultra Catholic, anti-Jew-
ish feeling of caste at the war Office.
Having been prisoner of war in Ger
many in 1870, and being an Alsatian,
he is warmly patriotic and would SYM
pathize with the military judges of
Dreyfus should ne find evidence of
guilt. General Zurlinden was to have
given verdict today. IL against re-
opening the case he would have retired
to leave the government a free hand.
Judge the disappointment when
news was received that the council had
adjourned.
IN A GOOD CHANNEL.
The Dreyfus affair is in a good chan
mel. The minister of justice has named
six accomplished, experienced, keen
jurists to examine the secret papers
and everything connected with the
Dreyfus case. The reOpening will en-
tirely depend upon this committee. Not
one of the six is Jew, but one of them,
NJ. Crepot, has been a student all his
life of Jewish history. Another men,
Der of the committee, NJ. Lopellettier,
has found relaxation from legal toll in
Greek literature. All six are men of
character and in the habit
of sitting evidence. The six will set to
work directly the war minister gives
his opinion
The country now being violently anti
Semitic and Dreyfus being Jew, the
will have to act with a
willy creep, rather than walk forward.
The late Lieutenant Colonel Henry's
confession brought public opinion
around to a revision, but the hostility
to Dreyfus is not abated. The people
feel that a mist of iniquity is involved
in the affair, and they will attempt to
penetrate it.
They are beginning to understand
that the general staff is no better than
when it rendered the military disasters
of 1870 inevitable. The resignation of
General Boisedeffre of the general
staff is a standing puzzle, and it
arouses suspicious that only a public
trial can quiet. The people ask: Was
Dreyfus an accomplice of Esterhazy?
Were they both able to hold rods in
pickle for their superiors? Was such
he he trio
conducted and Dreyfus rele-
gated to the solitude of Devils Island?"
DARK CONJECTURES.
The darkest conjectures are seeming
y testified by the circumstances con-
nected with Colonel Henry's suicide,
which, the Jews remark, was accom-
plished on the day of the Scientists
congress broke up. That event utterly
1iscredits the intelligence department
Of the war office, and, indeed, discred-
It's the whole general staff.
No more gruesome event has ever
shocked human sentiment and con-
science. and though it happened within
sight of Paris, it is shrouded in niys-
terry. Colonel Henry'S is the second
suicide connected with the Dreyfus af-
fair. The first suicide was that of
Lemercier Pickard, an intelligence
agent of the general staff of Colonel
the German military
attache here, and of the italian embaS-
sy. He was found suspended from a
lamp hook in a ceiling Was he MUIR
iered2 Was he a suicide? The sus-
picious facts of his death were hushed
up by the late government and NJ. Lee
pine. the former project of police.
The re9orted suicide of Major Count
EsterhaZy was a canard. He knows
where too many skeletons are conceal
ed not to feel safe. He will die a nat
lral death. but fresh revelations may
cad to others following Colonel Henry. !
Following Colonel Henry, the fairies,
IS in the Greek tragedies, seem TO en- !
Ter into this dream. The fall of Gen. !
eral Boisdeffre brings the drama home |
% the IMPERIAL court of Russia, where |
is q brilliant aristocratic military at !
ache he was a great favorite. He was
admitted TO the intimate festivities of |
he imperial family and was a favorite |
partner of the Empress Dow |
lger in her dancing days. The French |
'epublic sent him and a special en- |
)assy to the late cars funeral and to /
he present cars coronation. Great !
ums of money were allowed him to cut 4
dash. Finally, PresideC% Saure took /
lin to St Petersburg n assist in the /
Of the Franco-PruSsian |
reaty. Why such a great parsonage |
leems himself guilty with Henry and |
esigns a splendid post. passes Zompre-
tension. The reopening of the Dreyfus |
ase may solve the puzzle.
(Signed) EMILY CRAWFORD.