The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-24
ilHY FRANCE Is EXCITED.
rygAnnsEsS or THE CASE or THE
= ACCUSED DREYrUs.
ev,Se In the Army Joined to Prefu-
aiee Against the JeEss-fn ssnsatioa
that an Open Trial Would Have
Pessifed In Nar-Proyohing Facts.


! the Paris papers you are Inclined 10
4 a. 70 tAe conclusion thai tae one sub
: s~s about which Paris thinks, writes.
l s,esks d!eaus 81 tnis moment IL the case
~ Lrsyius The nrst question you are
.xked. or iudesa you ek IS: What j.
t~rogr opsrsorls Dreyfas Innocent or gut
/ n REGARDING e. a. q Simple question q
criminal procedure. ycg express either
| yoar opinion or your abSeu0e of opinion
| spsny ard temporarily. bat you always
4 sssserve that 4 y0u are speaking 10 a
J. xaris journalist he Inds Il necessary %
/ lswer bis voice. 10 look almost fursively
| sroga8. and especially II BE believes In
1 &c Innocence of Drevfus. he expresses his
: epiason with palpsbie timIdlty. You be-
| q ~ appreciate that you are dealing. not
4 FIN 3 mere trial u a single Individual
but with one % those complex affairs
1 shich. Ike the pebble dropped in the well.
/ .ver widsas. divides and widens until Il
i q hard 10 know where il VIII ali end
l inastd. you hear all kinds Of statements
4 -shsch make you think thar you are deal
! hg with some event the cad Of which II
/ d Impossible 10 foresee or TO measure.
: IS tbs forces set in motion by the simple
l pebble Ia the well. a popular French pa
Per announced a few days ago that
| france was no longer dealing with a sim
| pie case Of Justice. but the whole social
! future was threatened. Others take the
ssss extreme view that simply the exist
ng Institutions are passing through a Sc
were trial. while. as VIII presently be seen.
4 here are more 70 abuse the whole busi-
ness as mere temporary skeieton-a
/ TRANSIENT and exaggerated episode
! While there j. "A good deal to be said for
TIE last scene, II would be absurd TO deny
| thai the case has produced universal and
: gaialsseriai perturbation. that it touches
/ or all the machinery Of the state and
thai II deals with passions and feelings
, which vii continue 20 profoundly infiu-
snce the course OF public affairs IN France
| for long time % come. Let me try to
: sxpain how II comes 20 pass that a Sim
| pie military trial can have such trcmcn-
I doas results ! have 70 30 back for a
shend or two Everybody knows that for
/ some years the whole OF France has been
shocked ~ successive revolutions by uni
teTsal and base corruption IN high places
Nobody seemed 10 be above suzDicion
Some years age VI Hurdeau the presl-
cert Of the chamber or deputies. was re-
, gsrdei % he vrTy nf~n 4t tt-.s. -nt mo-
blsst embodiment OF the Ideal republican
ouxfh whtch. Il century aT.fr far close
of the French revolution stn1 stfnes ta-
fore tue French imagination as secular
samthcod. as the typical martyr or mis-
@enafy appeals to III Imagination OF the
christian, Ills premature death was Ia
nehted a. a national calamity he got a
SfsAt state funeral and his wife received
osg pension. Well some years after all
this. evidence whether good ar had
eas't says produced which reports mis-
aBstere ana heroic republican a. tha LEAD
er IN treacharous scheme or parliament
iaFy Corruption. \ man of almost equally
great renoWn. one who had been primo
Inlnls'er-the late NJ Floolef -vr,e
charged with being another # the in