The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-10
THU JEW IN HISTORY
HIS PERSECUTION NOT THE MAT
TER OF A DAY, A YEAR or
A CENTURY
BUT THE JEW WILL NOT DOWN

The Great Drama Which Is Now Be-
ing Enacted in the French Court
of Rennes-Dreyfus, the jew,
Merely the Convenient Target for
PassiOn-JeVv in American Life.
written before the verdict in the Drey-
fus case was rendered on Saturday,
a world is bending devouring eyes upon
the drama enacting at Rennes. In the
center of that stage, so strangely set,
stands erect the lean figure of the mar
tyr of DEVILS island, confronting cal
jimmy with lion aspect, resolute, impassive
when not too sternly wrought, gladia-
tor bayed by Bushmen. Millions of those
chances which come from afar over the
continents and across seas to fasten upon
this much-enduring man look on that
worn form, those scanned and haggard
cheeks, that whitening hair, with infinite
pity. They regard him an innocent victim
bound alive with withes OF dishonor and
cast helpless to be crushed under the re-
morseless wheels upon which rolls the car
of French militarism.
Other millions still gaze on this pitiable
presentment with eyes OF hate alone,
with that unrelenting hate which would
fay and cruelty, which would burn at
the stake, would exultantly impale its
object upon those moral tortures which
rend the soul and overturn the mind.
This iron man. beneath whose cuirass
may lie heart dissolved in tears, has not
looked upon the faces Of his children in
five years. With that devoted wife to
whose unresting love and indomitable
endeavor he most of all owes the YER
dict granting this new court-martial, he
has been permitted to speak only in the
presence of a watchful officer, selected
by his bitterest foes His chief counsel
is stricken by an assassin hand, and the
judges OF the military court refuse an
adjournment until the result of the IA
matte shot can be determined Pent upon
a far and desolate rock within the trop-
les not even the guarantees Of that stu
alton, remote, unfriended and alone, were
deemed sufficient for his security, but
around him was built a narrow coop,
whose only outlook was a fervid and IN
plying sky, and without this pale armed
guards patrolled, whose orders were to
shoot their prisoner upon the first alarm
Within this den he existed in an atmos-
phere willfully intended to destroy his
fortitude and lead him to self-destruc-
ton. His correspondence was mutilated,
revised and even denied him.
OF what took place In the great world
of which he seemed no longer to be
part all knowledge was withheld. When
in the hearts of those ardent friends who
were crying out for justice there arose
a hope Dreyfus knew it not. The soil
tary Of this well-named Isle du Diable
was left prey to ignorance, hostage
OF despair. At times In CALLING irons, it
was sought to break his dauntlcss spirit
by inflicting Ill of the flesh. When fevers
burned him, there IS reason to believe,
medicines to destroy his reason were ad-
ministered by devilish island hands. The
means of suicide were placed at his ell
bow. What taunts, what revilings were
melted him, what all indignities but
blows-if even these were spared--inas not
been told. Perhaps it never will be
known. The end has not yet come. Dis
tracted France, rent by evil confusions
which border upon revolution, Is a caul-