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Now France Ia on trial at the bar Of
civilization.-New York World.
It Il odious In the sight OF every lover
pr justice and Observation-Disclosures
News
France will suffer, and ought to suffer.
Tor this Infamous verdict.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
Justice has been outraged. manhood
Inundated, militarism enthroned.-Oma
ha World Herald.
Dreyfus Is vindicated in the tribunal Of
the civilized world and France Is now on
trial.-Boston Transcript.
/, The reconviction Of Dreyfus win sub
jcct France to the just contempt Of the
civilized world. Bee.
There u no assembling the fact that
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.-Kansas
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 vindicate whose
''honor' both courts trampled justice and
the forms Of law, Is cruciied afresh.-
Kansas City Star.
The deathlike stupor with which the
verdict was received In the court room
foreshadowed its reception by the world
Mt large New York Herald
The meaning Of this verdict Is that
France Is to-day national degenerate,
unworthy the respect OF civilized peoples.
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
The crime will cab aloud not merely for
reparation, but In years to come it Is to
be feared for vengeance-and probably
not in vain--Pittshlrg Dispatch.
1t Is apparent that II 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 at Rennes France
stands self-condemned as being two CEN
turtles behind the age In some Of the es-
sentials Of civiliEation.-Philadclphia
Record.
The Dreyfus case Is only one example
OF what has been enacted to a greater or
less extent In all countries by military
courts. They are relics Of the dark ages
New Orleans Picayune.
The general staff Of the French army
have earned the contempt not only Of
honorable soldiers in every land, but Of
all right-thinking people in uniform or
oH.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
II France be as besotted, as fatuous
and as degenerate as some Of her critics
insist the Dreyfue affair will stop here
and q more etupendous tragedy will be
usbered in.-Washington Post
Who can criticise the starving herd Of
Paris for accepting the vocation Of the
assassin when assassination that is worse
than death itself Is proclaimed as the
policy Of the Government ?-Philadelp
Times.
The only way in which France can now
escape the contempt Of Christendom Is
by such prompt and effective revolution
of public sentiment as shall force the I'M
doing Of this foul wrong.-St. Paul Pion-
eer Press.
The Dreyfus infamy means that, for
the time being at least, the military caste
in France has more influence than the po-
itical arm OF the Government and this Is
a humiliating and dangerous situation, in
a republio.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
france joins the dark and doomed cat
egory Of nations which deny justice to
the weak and the innocent and Of whom
a righteous retribution will in due sea-
son be demanded by an eternal justice
whose DEGREES 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 u forgery, perjury, libel
and conspiracy against an innocent and
defense3ess brother in arms that such
honor might be preserved.-Detroit Free
Press.
Bocr and Fritou.
II Dom Paul Kruger will only get q
clean shave all will be forgiven Louis
vile Post.