The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-11
LOVE AND LOYALTY WIN.

What splendid example ef noble
womanhood is Nine. Dreyfus, She
never doubted her husband for an in
slant when all France seemed turned
against him. His trials have been her
own His sufferings she has felt. The
disgrace with which it was sought to
overwhelm him has fallen heaviest
upon her heart.
But she was not the helpless wife
to sit and mourn her lot, his fate. She
has proven herself a helpmeet in truth
done everything, made every sacrifice,
in reason and in honor, for the sake
Of her prosecuted husband. And now
that her efforts in his behalf are about
to be crowned with success and decor
ated with vindication, she says: 81
am content. 1 shall forgive everyone
when my husband is liberated"
Whenever she mentions her husband,
and it has been so from the time the
conspiracy marked him as its victim,
she vouches honesty and integrity, his
loyalty and devotion to France. He
was a man." she asserts, who would
not only never be capable of mean
action, but who utterly abhorred I'M
derhand tactics and shifty intrigue
Neither wealth nor advancement would
have won him from the path of simple
duty; and it is my implicit belief in
and knowledge of all this which has
given me courage to continue the I'M
God will eventually completely estab-
lish his innocence"
Her own honesty, the simplicity of
her devotion, the purity of her faith,
the sublimity of her courage and the
charity with which she regards her
enemies reveal the womanly character
of Nine. Dreyfus. And women every
racy of France have felt for her in
her great trial and rejoice with her
in the dawn Of a better day.
Once a month during the five years
of his confinement the unhappy man
has been allowed to write to the
patient, hopeful woman. But, as they
were written, these letters never reach
ed their destination. They were
filtered at the central prison and only
the portions that passed the censor
ultimately reached her. These mutt
lated epistles, the outpourings of a
lacerated heart, were ever sad beyond
the understanding Of happy and con-
tented mortals. In every line there
was a ring Of despair although an at
tempt to cheer the reader up appeared.
His love for the partner of his woes
was a dash Of sweet in every bitter
cup.
Cassers magazine obtained one let
ter which it printed months ago to
show the prisoners determination, in
spired by his wife and the memory of
his children, to hold up and hope on
to the end. What pathos it contains!
How all my love for you comes home
to me at this momenti 1t is solely the
thought of you, my poor darling, that
enables me to struggle on. To think that
am accused of the most monstrouS crime
a soldier can commit, Even today il
seems 10 me that l am the sport of a
horrible nightmare; but rest assured that
If ] am successful in treading this Cal
vary to the end it will be for your sake,
my poor darling; it will be to avoid for
you a fresh sorrow in addition to all
those you have already supported. Your
courage. your devotion, are sublime; you
are assuredly ore of the noblest women
of the world; my admiration for you is
such that If / succeed in drinking my
bitter cup to the dregs it will be in order
to be worthy of your heroism. ] wiring
my hands in grief for you and for our
childreni All around me is profound sill
ence, broken only by the moaning of the
sea Do not weep dearest; will struggle
10 the last minute for your sake and for