The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-10
RETALIATEONfRANCE
MARION CLUB ASKS EXPOSITION
COMMISSIONERS BE WITHDRAWN.
Messages sent Senators Requesting
Them to Urge This Course on
President Mckinley.
THE FRENCH TRICOLOR BURNED
CAPT. WALLACE FOSTER HAS A GER
EMONY ON CAPITAL AVENUE.
Feeling of Resentment i'm Indianap-
oils on Account Of the Drey-
fuS Verdict.
THE FRENCH TRICOLOR BURNED
CAPT. WALLACE FOSTER HAS GER
EMONY ON CAPITAL AVENUE.

A new suggestion mas Deen raised Dy the
Marion Club apropos the verdict in the
Dreyfus case The following communica-
ton was sent last night to Senators Fair
banks and Beveridge and Representative
Overstreet:
THE Marion Club, as club, which is a
lover of justice and fair play. urges you,
as just rebuke to the military despotism
which has convicted Captain Dreyfus, an
innocent man, to use your influence with
President Mckinley to get him TO withdraw
the American commissioner TO the Paris
Exposition
The communication asking for the with
drawal OF Commissioner Peck was signed
by the officers of the club.
Attorney General Taylor last night SAID:
"Dreyfus would have been acquitted on the
evidence under any American State code
practice. Under either the civil or military
code in France, the acquittal or conviction
of an accused depends alomst wholly upon
the prejudice of the presiding Judge. Drey
fus is victim of the French code. He will
finally be free"
THE EXPOSITION BOYCOTT.
DR.. Emil Hirsch, member of the faculty
of the University of Chicago, who recently
returned from Europe, recently stated in an
interview that England, Germany and the
Scandinavian peninsula are considering boy
cotting the Paris exposition. Speaking OF
the Dreyfus case, DR.. Hirsch said: Talk
of revolution is widespread among the
French people. They look for a revolution
without regard TO the result Of the Dreyfus
case Three-fourths of the French are
hostile to DreyfuS and in sympathy with his
accusers, who represent the army. The
feeling in England is so strongly in favor of
Dreyfus that the people are talking about
nothing else TranSVaal situation.
and even that is secondary in the minds of
the masses. The English feel that If Drey-
fuS is not acquitted something ought to be
done to make the French realize how the
world al large understands the case. While
L was in London repeatedly heard 1t said
that the people of England would not set
foot in Paris during the exposition. / heard
Americans say the same thing. and my
cabin mate returning, man who had been
touring Scandinavia said the same feeling
existed in that country.
The army is the fetch before which the
whole of France is bowed in worship.
I Three-fourths of the people believe that the
army must be upheld at all hazards, and
that if Dreyfus is acquitted the army for
ever will be disgraced 1t is difficult for
Americans to understand how completely in
sane the French are over the army and
how bitterly they feel toward the Jews.
This feeling is being stirred up continually
by various publications and posters.
'on the evening of Aug; Is met in Paris
| jority of whom were boys, with men as
leaders. They were marching through the
principal streets. shouting Down with the
Jews" and 'Vive Parmee" 1 saw on the
houses and shops of Jews placards stating
| This is a Jews house., sufficient warn
ing to all not to trade with the occupants.
l talked with a Jew whose family had lived
| in a small town in the Southern part of
| France for four generations, and who was
| therefore as much of Frenchman as he
| could be. This man said he was the only
| Jew in the town, and that every evening his
| residence was surrounded by a crowd,
| shouting Down with the Jews!
4 a driver Thought
| about the Dreyfus case, and he at once re-
| piled that the Jews were at the bottom of
all the trouble. Pressed for an explanation,
The Jews have all the money and have
corrupted everything. They have neither
| earth
"A moment later he asserted that the
| Jews had poisoned President Faure. AS
| there are only $4,000 Jews in France one
| can see how ridiculous is the statement that
| the Jews cause all the trouble in France,
every Jew is Rothschild. Behind the trial
| is the question Of civil or military supreEl-
| acy, with the church hand in glove with the
| army, and an undercurrent of feeling that
| the days Of the republic are approaching an
There is no question that the French are
| expecting a revolution. / heard business
| men in Paris say that IL France were ruled
| by a king ii would bring trade to the city.
They spoke of the advantage to Paris of
| a season like that in London when Parlia-
| ment is in session. The French envy Lon
| don its show of royalty. and there is no
| Disgusting the fact that large class of
| the French people would welcome a king.
The one hopeful sign Is the interest
shown in national affairs by the class known
| as the intellectuals.' a term corresponding
| TO 'mugwump' in the United States. The
| intellectuals have seen the danger threaten
| ing the republic and are coming to the front
| on all public questions They want to insure
/ the stability of the republic and hereafter
will be active in French politics.
Concerning the attitude of the French to-
ward the United States DR.. Hirsch said:
THE love OF American shekels makes the
| French friendly. They did not think we
| should have made a war against Spain, but
| they are willing 10 forget about the war
| If the Americans will visit France during
| the exposition and spend their money