Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-22
Urges Nine. DreyfuS to
Keep Up Courage.
THE CAPTAINS FRIENDS
Will Never Relax Their Efforts to Have
the Stain Removed From His Name
He Speaks of the Children of
the Martyr.


w" YIN NSIl. --.-4H X JoulIidl anu
Advertiser prints a dispatch from Paris
| giving the full text of Emile lola S letter
to Nine. Dreyfus as follows:
Dear Madame-Your husband and
those who defended him have been ex-
posed to the vilest insults, and even to
bodily injury. For my part, there are
organs belonging to the gutter press and
men SO tainted with moral dirt that l
have struck them from my life-from my
memory. For me they are no more. I
nave driven them completely from my
thought as if l never mad known them.
1T Is such forgetfulness OF atrocious in
suits that | recommend to the innocent
mar who has suffered the wrongs. He is
so much apart, SO far above them all
that they should be unable to reach him..
May he come to life again, under your
care and under the clear sunshine of uni
yersal sympathy shown for him. Peace
be to the martyr who has such need OF
repose. and around him now. in retreat,
may there be nothing but love and ca
reSSeS.
As for us. madame. we shall continue
to fight. We shall tomorrow go on with
the struggle for justice as sternly as we
pursued it yesterday. We shall exact
reha Utilization of the innocent man less
for the sake of him. who has already 50
much glory. than for France, which
would assurediy be killed by this excess
of infamy. Our task will be the regan-
Grafton of France in the eyes of the uni
verse, which will take place when the
infamous judgment has been quashed. A
great country cannot live without Justice,
and ours will remain in mourning just
as long as the stain of insult is leveled
at the highest jurisdiction and the viola-
ton of the most primitive right shall re-
main. The social fabric crumbles when
the guarantees Of law no longer exists
and there is in this violation OF right
such an element Of insolence and bravado
so impudent that We cannot ignore it.
We cannot bury a body secretly without
showing our shame to our neighbors.
The whole world has seen and heard,
and it is before the whole world that
reparation should take place. To desire
a France without honor is criminal.
Without doubt. foreigners will come to
our exposition. They will overflow
Paris, just as numbers are attracted to
a fair by the sound of music and flare of
lamps, but should that satisfy our pride?
should We not value esteem as highly
as the money of the outside world? We
shall exhibit our science, our art and our
industry. Should we dare to exhibit our
justice, one can imagine Devils island
reconstructed and exhibited. For me the
shame of it is intolerable. l do not un-
derstand how the exhibition can be
opened until France is in her rank among
nations again. When We restore honor
to the condemned, honor will again be
restored to ffance-nOt before.
Let ME say in conclusion, madame,
that you may depend on those who have
restored to your husband his freedom to
restore to him his honor. Not one of us
will give up the fight. We know we'll
that We fight for justice and our coun-
try. The splendid brother of the con-
demned man will again set the example
of courage wisdom and justice. We
have not been able all at once to restore
your husband to YOU, freed from lying
accusations. We ask yet a little pa
tlence, trusting that your children will
not be much older before their name shall
be legally purged of all blemish. Poor
children. l can see them again in the
arms of their father. ! know with what
jealous care, by what miracle of delicacy
YOU have kept them in complete ig-
norance. They believed their father away
on a journey, and when they became in
quisltive at his long absence what could
YOU tell them when his innocence was yet
only believed in by one or two? Your
heart must ave broken. Blu in these
last few weeks when HIS innocence was
| palpable to all, l could have wished that
you could have taken your two children
by the hand and conducted them to the
prison in Rennes, that they might nave
had forever in their minds the picture of
their fathers heroism. You could have
told them all what he has unjustly suf-
fered, what moral grandeur was his.
They would have benefited by his lemon
tration of manly v1rtue-it is now too
late. Some evening, under the lamp and
in the peace of family, their father can
a k them upon his knees and tell them
the tragic history. 1t is necessary that
they should know, in order that they may
respect and adore him as he deserves.
When he has spoken they will know ttat
there is not in the world a greater hero
martyr, whose sufferings have so pro-
foundry touched men hearts. They will
be proud of him and will bear his name
with glory as the name of a very brave
man, who has borne himself sublimely
under the most frightful sufferings which
fraud and cowardice could innict. TIL
day will come when the son and daughter,
not of the condemned man, but of his per-
secutors, will have cause to blush. Ac-
cept, madame, my profoundest respect.