New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-17

| could De applied either TO Esterhasy or 70 some
So in short; the testimony Of all the .itns,ss g:
never been any evidence, either in the pubic o.
In the secret documents. against Dreyfus. There v
Be ws said no TO Sans q
treason Now. that Is no evidence that he Is limo,
proof OF such crime. and he may. be a traitor. al
T~t u.s. .' therefore see what The witnesses favor
able to Dreyfus have brought before the Court q
absolutely innocent.
NOT WRITTEN BY AN ARTILLERYMAN.
I have already said that the arguments OF the
General STAFF stating that nobody but an artillery
man and an officer of the stan could have known
| the documents quoted In the bordereau' have been
met by three artillerymen OF high capacity-a gen.
been attached TO the technical services Of the Min;
/ lstry OF War. and a retired captain who Is wen
many Of the questions Of which the bordereau
speaks were we'll known for a long time By many
moreover, to take examples Dreyfus. who was q
very bright officer. would never have aye committee
campasne Nor would an artiilsryman have writ WRIT.
s'est conduiie, when the regular and universal
word in that case is Comment cette piece ses'
'I But that is mere academicIal discussion Here 2
R%Tns wre the BY
Of Aye The Ave experts have been ors , Ss
h ag Of Dreyfus and Esterhasy. Two only
Of the former experts have stood by their hr rs
0Dnl9ns a Tnf ser6 rs Sns ~S CHANGED his
seeing Esterhazys handwriting. and hes publicly i
in favor OF Dreyfus at the trial Of $50. has become
ma jory Of three, and 1t would be no longer pos
| sible 10 condemn him the author OF the DOT
dereau As to the two experts who still trace n,
bordereau to Dreyfus one Of them has been ProVsp
Bertilion whose Transportation Of preyfuss gun
Understood der by anybody. even by the judges who
accepted his conclusions 49,. o,o,,r, -, C.assotton
has revealed another new fact in connection with
the bordereau There exists letter OF Esternazy
| the very same paper-a special kind Of thin paper.
Of which it was impossible to find the like In Drey-
Then there is still another fact which bears wiz,
ness OF the weakness OF the s We KNOWN
has date Is nov supposed TO hevs the ofen s Judges
and ssns aSr@ 81 n bs sSsed
the superstition that was written In april iSs
against Drtyfus; now August Is the date which l, Is
supposed to fix the charge upon Dreylus ann p nor
that he sent the documents mentioned IN the DOR
THE SECRET DossiERs
But the revsionists have not only crushed for
ever the arguments founded on the bordereau anu
the so-caIled "avowal' which Dreyfus Is supposed
| TO have made to a gendarme between two desper-
ate cries OF innocence. They have shown also
! thanks to Picquart. that none OF the secret COS
siers can be applied to the condemned man. Tn ,e
| French Foreign ONCE. which deciphered all the
secret kilograms Of the Italian attache. that IN MS
S so psnzzard stated. from the very first day.
that neither he nor his German colleague knew
an{' hIsh Office officer Of the Foreign Department.
hs; testified ns hoss
grams whose terms leave no doubt about the SIN
Another witness has had the courage to bring
before the court testimony collected IN foreign
ber Of the institute historian OF high standing
a gentleman universally respected. and who has
srss th himself rsi pr he prefus aa He
told ne court what he knew from b han9tS Ss Dn f1T
and his friend but what he was able to gather
in Rome during his sojourn there In 1897 and ISIS
ceived condolences both from schwartzkopRen and
from Panzzsrd The Italian MINISTER the OF words
Monod. that Dreyfus was innocent Queen Amelie
said the thing g ades o pesd @
ter written by Frau Won Bulow. the wife Of ,I the
in Italy some time after Buows declaration In In
the Reichstag The letter runs as toqw rs ,nno
cent Dreyfus Ali that zola has written is true
Finally MonQd quotes from sSnysrss hIm. en-
whom he found very sad on account OF his respon-
slbty in Dreyfuss misfortune ,,,,or,an Ar.
dowd with the keensst critical spirit vs ana az his
evidence. would be sufficient in any other case to
avenge condemned man. But in a process OF
ns az IN the Of
no value. II is enough that the testimony comes
n foreigner.
the truth, to make It unpalatable to many OF our
crazy patriots
BELIEF IN DREYFUs's GUILT A RELIGIOUS
DOGMA.
As n rule they accept nothing which establishes
Dreyfus's innocence The results OF the inquiry
have not even silenced them. and still the puoca-
ton shows on side the officers making contra
dictory statements. and producing either false doc
uments or documents without any connection what
Nth Drav ftfa nd fOun whole
viction on mere suppositions; and on the other
side Dreyfus's supporters proving that Dreyfus
has not written the bordereau that he Is not desg-
mated In any secret documents and that MS al
legged have always tine
that they have never before heard OF him All
jn "hsSh S sp0@ sns military
nor the bulk OF the people who like better not TO
ceivins both the others and themselves: IT..
Their state Of mind IS indeed queer one wn nen
foreigners do that there has been plot Of the
whole army against Dreyfus. Al the very begin
W Vh O Soes eSs be R %o
and TO preyfus's unpoPularity among his fellow How,
have But 0s az WnSs nss 6a ss
back down. The faith in Dreyfus's guilt had al
hat ous nO have
pStrios,c passions and anti Semitic hate; The peo-
believes in a religious dogma. and the supporters
Of Dreyfus were looked upon mere heretics. The
more the innocence OF the man became clear the
more passlorately they chung TO their faith. and
to them may well be applied the old sentence Of
the old theologian "Credo quia absurdum"
or course, there are among the anti-revsionists
a good many rascas, some OF whom will get their
punishment very soon. But the bulk Of the army
and OF the people sincere. and their case Is
psychological and pa biological one. which ply
sicians have often observed and can account for
oSs sr esfs say es e w o%r n s
a matter OF scientific knowledge shall have been
officially confirmed by the Supreme Court OF France
For two hundred years there Will be historians
lighting the same battle, with the same arguments
and perhaps the same passions
At any rate. foreigners OF all countries who are
wont to pity or condemn France account OF that
terrible crisis In which, after ALL a splendid record
OF courage and generosity has been made by the
soundest part OF the country. should rather try
first TO understand the causes of our social disease
and then cure them I'm themselves lest they awake
one day with the same plague.