Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-09-12

ter of public interest and popular
sympathy. That the trial was mere
formality has long been pressed in up
on popular conviction by the nature of
the proceedings. There was adduced
no evidence of Dreyfus' guilt and
much that indicates his innocence.
But that there was guilt was undeni-
able, and that it lay much nearer the
head OF the army than was Captain
Dreyfus, was abundantly demonstrated
In that was Dreyfus' doom. He had
been five years ago selected sacrifice
to the "honor" of the army, and that
the honor" of the army be maintain
ed the sacrifice must be complete. I'm
derstandlng this, public opinion might
have Viewed with patience a verdict of
guilt, with a sentence of palliation of
punishment, comprehendlng a restora-
tion to rank and retirement from the
army. That would have been trav-
esty Of justice, of course. but since it
would have entailed no further physl-
cal suffering and mental degradation
to the accused, it would have been con-
doned. But, to add to the term of tor
ture that has already sapped the foun-
ain of -,fe and warped his soul in suf-
fering beyond conception, is an out
rage against humanity, a blot upon
civilization that must arouse the great
heart OF humanity to most indignant
protest. Civilization cannot permit that
this crime be consummated.
With the word of the German Emper-
or, conveyed by his accredited repre-
sentative, that the German Empire,
through its agents or otherwise, had
never had any communication with
Captain Dreyfus, or in any way been
party to conspiracy with him, that
she had neither officially or otherwise
received information from him, the
military court of France refuses to call
witnesses named by the Emperor as
competent to expose the real culprit,
and ignoring His Majesty's prOtesta-
tfons, condemns the man his royal
word has pronounced as absolutely in
nocent. Is this not an insult to Ger
many, this affront to her ruler?
The CIV government of France
should rescue Dreyfus from this Odium
and push guilt home to every crime
stained soul of her army of consplra-
tors. Should she fail in this duty,
Germany may well cal her to account,
and saving her. own insulted honor,
preserve me innocence of Dreyfus.
The civilized world may not stand idly
by and permit this crime to to be COM
mitted. Humanity, justice and right
demand that this victim of malevo-
lence be saved from further sacrifice,
1t wots not that Dreyfus be a Jew.
Jew or Gentle, he is a man, the crea-
| tion of a God who holds all his child
rem equal in the divine bill of rights,
and Jews and GENTLE are brothers in
,e great human family, the one as
good as the otner, and neither the mil
itary court of France, nor any other
authority of earth, may hold the one
above the, the other beneath, the other
but altogether in the broad catholicism
of citizenship.
Therefore, man to man, woman to
woman, all the peoples of all the earth,
massed in one vast voluminous wave
of popular sentiment, should sweep Ov-
er France with such irresistible pot
ency that this prosecuted prisoner and
his noble wife may be rescued from the
odium and suffering entailed in this
most unholy sentence-this sentence
that so shames all that is exemplifed
in the boastel modern sentimen- of
civnIzed, humanized, Chrisbianized
justice to all men and all classes of
men.
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