Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-11
France Is DiShOnOred.

New York, Sept. 11.-A dispatch to the
Herald from Berlin says: 1t has attract
ed considerable remark that the govern
mental organ, the Nord Deutsche Alle-
gemeinte Zeitung, has not uttered a
word of on the Judgment of the
Dreyfus court martial. The same obser-
walton holds good with regard to the
conservative kreuse Zeitung and the
Tagische Rundschaw. OF the conserva-
tive journals the only one that has ex-
pressed an opinion is the Berlin Neuste
Nachrichten, which says: y
Judgment has been given and the
world is face to face with a fresh crisis.
Courts martial in France are not forced
to give the grounds for their judgments.
How bad a thing it is in certain cases
that they should De thus freed from Civ
ing public account of their acts is clear
ly show by the result of this trial-a
result which must deeply wound many
without prejudice against the prisoner.
Dreyfus, who is represented wen by the
journals who believe in his innocence, as
a most unsympathetic figure, is per-
sonally to us as to every other German.
perfectly Indifferent. but justice must
fulfill its high mission without respect to
persons. Whenever it abandons the
SIpuIu VI dUSDlule Importantly ana ue-
sends to the level of party passion, it
loses the right to demand that everybody
should bow to its decisions. Whoever
does not take uD the absolutely barbar-
Gus standpoint that Dreyfus is guilty
because he is a Jew, cannot escape from
the force of conscience which makes him
examine the question whether there is
any material evidence brought forward
against Dreyfus which suffices to con-
lNr~-~1 tao - - cJ sod ~-..1
Gus punishment"
The clerical Germania takes a Jesuit
cal attitude and writes:
we believe it our duty to refrain from
criticising the Judgment. A French
court martial has given it's verdict and
is responsible for it,
The military press condemns the YER
dict. The Vossische Zeitung writes:
by this stain france throws the state
that was so proud of it's freedom and
civilization back into barbarity and dis
honors the country which has passed the
sentence on an innocent man as justice.
The moral sense of the nameless crueities
to which he was subjected would have
wiped out much of the disgrace which the
judicial error of 1894 brought upon
France. Would it astonish France if
thousands of exhibitors from every
country should enounce their participa-
llOIl anu SONeIIllileul, III ueleIS0 OIL lIelI
dignity. refuse to take part in 1T so long
as yesterdays Judgment is not recalled?
Or do people in France regard it as a
matter Of course that the world should
compete for faVOrS in a nation with a
false sense of honor?"
The National Zeitung declares: "It is
the greatest crime against mankind
which has been committed since the days
of the inquisition and of the burning, OF
witches. 1t is now accomplished and
five criminals in uniform who, unhappily,
can boast that they have carried out the
will Of the greater part of the French
nation, have managed to do what no, one
expected. They have added c~owardice. to
unworthiness While they We're deter
mined to make the sacrifice to the imbe-
Giles and scoundrels of the general staff
which the latter demanded, these Judges
We're haunted by the fear of the cry OF
Indignation which they knew must &C
through the whole civilized world if they
sent Dreyfus back for life to Devils
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