Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-09-20
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The Drexfus Verdict.

Now France is on trial at the bar Of
civilization York World.
1t is odious in the sight of every lover
of justice and liberty indianapolis
News.
France will suffer, and ought to suffer-
for this infamous verdict Minneapolis
Tribune
Justice has been outraged. manhood
Inundated, militarism enthroned,-
ha World Herald.
Drcyfus is yindica;cd in the tribunal Of
the civilized world and France is now on
trial,-BoSton Transcript
The reconyiction of Drcyfus win sub
ject France 10 the just contempt of the
civilized world.-0maha Bee.
There is no assembling the fact tha.
France stands face TO face with the grav-
est crisis since Sedan. Boston Tran
script.
France must right this great wrong
speedily or submit TO the contempt of
honest people the world over.-Kanses
City Times.
There is no such peril for any land as
that fact that. under the shield of its
laws, the innocent are not safe.-New
York Times
The French army, to vindicGte whose
honor" beth courts trampled justice and
the forms of law, is erucifed afresn,-
Kansas City Star
The deathlike stupor with which the
verdict was received in the court room
foreshadowed its reception by the world
at large. e.-New York Herald.
The meaning of this verdict is that
France is to-day national degenerate,
unworthy the respect of civilized peoples.
Memphis Commercial-Appea
The crime will call aloud not merely for
reparation, but in years to come it is TO
be feared for yengeance-and probably
not in vain. Dispatch.
1t is apparent that if the evidence of
Dreyfus innocence had been ten times as
strong he would have been convicted just
the same.-kansas City Journal.
BY the Judgment Mt RI les France
stands self-condemned as being two CEN
turies behind the age in some of the cs-
sentials of civilizations Philadelphia
Record.
The Dreyfus case is only one example
of what has been enacted TO greater or
less extent in all countries by military
courts. They are relics Of the dark ages.
New Orleans Picayme.
The general staff of the French army
have earned the contempt not only of
honorable soldiers in every land. but eft
all right-thinking people in uniform or
out.-Cleveland Plain Dealer
If France be as besottcd, as fatHous
and as degenerate as some of her critics
insist the Dreyfus affair will stop here
and more stupeudous tragedy will he
ushered in Washington Post
Who can criticise the starving herd of
Paris for accepting The vocation of the
assassin when assassinatio:. that is worse
than death itself is proclaimed as the
policy of the Government Philadelphia
Times.
The only way in which France can now
escape the contempt Of Christcndom is
by such a prompt and effective revolution
of public sentiment as shall carce the I'M
doing of This foul wrong.-St. Paul Pion-
eer Press
The Dreyfus infamy means that, for
the time being AZ least. the military caste
in France has more influence than the po-
litical arm of the Government and this il
Il humiliating and dangerous situation in
Il republc-St. Louis Globe-Dem0crat.
France joins the dark and doomed cat
cgory of nations which deny justice 10
the weak and the innocent and Of whom
righteous retrbution will in due sea-
son be demanded by an eternal justice
whose decrees outlast the life of nations.
Philadelphia Press.
Nothing can be more grotesque, even
in France, than the fiction Of military
honor prostituting itself to the most re-
voting crimes of forgery, perjury, libel
aud conspiracy against an innocent and
defenseess brother in arms that such
honor might be preserved. Detroit Free
Press.