The Meeker herald., 1899-09-16
DREYFUs CONDEMNED
INJUSTICE OF coWARDLY
JUDGES.

Say lie Is GUILTY and Sentence Him to Tea
Years la Prison -Alsnost Universal Con-
demnatInn of the Verdict.
Rennes, Sept. 10.-The expected has
happened. DreyfS has been condemn
ed, but majority OF those In the
court room yesterday afternoon fully
expected the verdict. They were COM
pletely stupefied when 1t was given,
and the silence which prevailed In the
room and the way men turned pale
and caught their breaths was more Inn
pressiye than any other manifestation
could have been.
Maitre Demange sank back in his
chair and tears trickled down bis
cheeks and Maitre Labor turned white
rs q sheet, while all around the court
men looked Mt each other In silence.
Positively the only sound to he heard
was the rustling OF papers from the re-
porters' benches as each press repre-
sentative tried to be first to send the
news.
As the audience left the court room
fully ten or fifteen were crying openly
and the majority Of those present
walked quietly down the street Tor
more than block without speaking
word. 1t was like funeral process
sion.
Meanwhile q tragedy was being en-
acted In the little room Of the court
room, where Dreyfus listened to the
reading of the verdict. He had been
told the result by his lawyers, and had
wept bitterly, but when in the pres
snce of the officials of the court mar
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tence.
His wife, who was waiting in torture
and suspense at her house, bore the
news bravely and when visiting her
husband showed the onlOOkers who
were In the streets no sign Of her suf-
ferinR as she walked from her car
riage to the prison.
The general belief Is that Dreyfus
will be pardoned; but this will not sat
Isfy his friends, who vehemently de-
clare that they will refuse to accept
the verdict and will continue the bat
tie until the judgment is reversed. The
verdict, they say, Is directed more
against the Jews than against Drey-
fus and II allowed to stand will make
their existence In France impossible.
Labor will sign an application for a
revision of the case, although there is
no hope that the verdict will be re
versed. Both are much upset, though
1t can hardly be said that they were
surprised.
To-day Dreyfus said: 81 am not un-
easy regarding myself, as shall soon
poor children. They will be branded
as the children of a traitor"
He Ii convinced that the ten years
imprisonment to which he has been
sentenced will be wiped out by the five
years Of solitary seclusion he has I'M
dergone on DEVILS Island and he ex-
poets to be released by October is,
which will be i've years from the date
Of his former condemnation. Others
do not accept this view, but believe
that Dreyfus WIN have to serve a ten
years. sentence unless the government
interferes.
London, Sept. lit would be DIFF
ficult to describe adequately the indig-
nation the verdict Of the Dreyfus
court martial has evoked everywhere
in England The excitement in the
Jewish quarters In London is only nat
ural. Special prayers were offered
throughout London Saturday in all
the synagogues on behalf of Dreyfus,
and as soon as the verdict was known
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cry street corner expressing execra-
ton and many sobbing bitterly.
At the music halls and especially the
Palace theater, where the cinemato-
graph pictures of the Incidents and
leading actors of the Dreyfus affair
were exhibited. the news was greeted
with groans and Misses. In the French
quarter of London there was much ex-
element. accompanied by street fight
ing.
In almost all the places of public
worship pulpit references were made
to the verdict. Canon Scott Holland,
at st. Paul's Cathedral, said:
"a nation is on trial. France stands
at the Judgment bar. All civilization
Is waiting to know whether to-mor-
rows news may add anything to quail
ify the naked cruelty Of bare tele-
gram, anything to relieve the stag
gered consciences."
Berlin, Sept. 1.-THE Dreyfus YER
dict causes a feeling Of almost stupe-
faction at Berlin. 1t had been hoped
that the statement of the Reichanzei
ger, as emanating directly from EN-
peror william. would have rendered
impossible the repetition Of what Is
described as zone of the greatest ju-
dicial and political crimes Of any
age"
It is universally agreed that the Sec
ond verdict is n grave political blum
der, a violation of the laws of civiliza.
ton and nm act of moral cowardice
which the world will find 1t difficult
to pardon. The German press unani-
mously describes the verdict as cow
ardly and impolitic, not to say GRIM
ina1
Paris, Sept. 10. 900 p. m.-The day
has been one Of absolute quiet, with
no public excitement, even In the Rue
de Chabrol. There was rainfall this
afternoon and the streets were practi-
cally deserted.
Slight disturbances occurred yester-
day at Marseilles and Relfort after the
verdict Of the Dreyfus court-martial
was published. The demonstrators
stoned the reaidanca of Iacnuas nrou.