The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-22
FRANCES VOLCANO.

INAiNIC . $vULOANU.
Tho Dreyfus Crater Still ACTIVE, ana the
Lavaor Eruption May, 'Yst Dring pisss-
ter TO tho Government. lsis53
NETWORK, Jan. .i.-A special TO the
World from Paris, says: Since the
French government refused 70 permit
Zola TO go 70 Devils Island to describe
Drcyfus' situation precisely as 1t IS,
Bjornstjorne Bjornson. the famous Nor
wegian novelist, poet and dramatlst. has
written from Rome 70 zola 40 sollows;
Very Honored Master:-Howl1 envy
you. How wish were In your place In
order to be able 10 render 10 the country
and to humanity q service like that rem
dcred by you. e Il
u haye proved By experience that II IS
much more pcrllotis to want to eradicate
hatred. than love from the minds OF
men. A host OF things which have for o
long time been taking root In the noblegt
as well as In the basest Instincts Of, the
French people have brought on a situa-
ton SO tragic that a thousand years Of
progress and civilization nre swept
away. All others trenble before the
cries and jury Of barbarians, but they
have NOT made you recoll. You alone
with Tyre and sword marched against
millions. .'ittsS
is there nobier spectacle to be seen
in the world? That was Just what
France needed. l can assure you that
all the peoples OF Europe are gazing a.
France at this moment In establishment
and pain. Z Two facts sufficiently ea-
plain It. The first is the indictment
against Dreyfus. 1t Is unworthy OF men
charged With immense responsibility.
That Indictment charges Dreyfls with
showing reasonable favor 10 Germany.
In the evidence TO show guilt It was al
legged that he could go to Alsace more
easily than other French officers. That
was officially denied by the Alsace- Lor-
raine government. Twice in the same
ing Alsace: the third time he started he
was permitted 10 spend q week there
because his father was III. Has any one
ever seen man acting as a spy for any
country refused access to that country?
"The imperial. government or Ger
that Dreyfus never had relations with
Its agents. This allegation OF the indict-
ment, therefore, Is absolutely false. The
second fact Is official communications
made to the press affirm that the indict-
ment contains only a part of the proofs
OF Dreyfus' guilt, while the rest are kept
secret, having been communicated only
to the Judges during the trial. 4
i I'm other words Dreyfls was not con-
demned legally. He was deprived OF
rank, 6.ssraced and transported beyond
the seas without i legal trial, upon mo
unsupported opinion Of n few comrades
A government which. IN the fact OF
these confessed facts, refuses to review
the Dreyfus Court martial, assuretly IS
more devoid OF conscience than any
hitherto known among Civilized peo-
pies.
THAT the judgment of all Europe, be
assured. Furthermore Europe admires
what you have done. always have
held the opinion that the Work OF a
romance writer or a poet bears the same
relation to himself personally as notes
to the bank which issues them and which
should have on hand securities cores
ponding TO the issue.
We see now that II your, works have
circulated throughout the world 10 in
crease the courage and enrich the heart
OF humanity It Is. because. you yourself,
the 4 man Of courage and heart. 5sk
80 -. Yours. "
''BJoRNSTERNE BJoRNsoN." "
Paris, January 81. J.
Three experts in handwriting. whom
Emil Zola charged with making false re-
ports at the courtmar;lal OF Major
Count Esserhazy. will. 1t Is announced,
sue the novelist for 100000 francs DAM
age.
Taking advantage Of the fact that this
was the day for the balloting for cnn-
scripts in the fifth district, n mob OF peo-
pie. wearing the conscipts trI.color
coclsades, parnded the Latin quarter
utterinG the usual cries, but they were
severely handled and dispersed by a
strong detachment OF police. Forty OF
the participants IN the demonstration
were arrested.
NJ. Vervtore, editor Of the LIE JJour
and NJ. Adjalbolt. writer for! Les
Droits de 4 'Homma, fought a duel with
swords on account of a dispute arising
out OF. the. Dreyfus case. NJ yervoore
sustained three. flesh wounds and n.
Adjalboi: was wounded in the forearm.
The seconds stopped the fight.
HAVRE, Jan. 21.-Red placards were
posted here to-day denouncIng the
Dreyfusians and inscribed with the
usual cries against the Hebrews and in
favor of the army and the republic.
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