The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-29

peasant, anxious about his securities,
.lr you. the people. will compel the
government to do the right thing lust
once In this Dreyfus affair, we will
nod our hands. Otherwise, we will get
OUT OF your country and then smash It."
The day the Drcyfus rehearlnH was
ordered the drop In the rentes ceased
There Is no doubt that the alfaIre
Dreyfus give the higher class of israel
lies OF Europe the most anxious time
they have known for generation, In
Spain and Austria they had been safe
enough. Owing to the promptness with
which the great Berlin firm of the Glei-
chroders came to the assistance OF old
Kaiser William, in 1870, when n great
amount OF money had to be obtained In
q very short time. that house was UNI
der the direct protection of imperial
Germany. But the others believed that
concerted movement was on foot to
deprive the Jewish people everywhere
OF their social and personal rank and
influence and relegate them back to the
almost pariah class In which they were
five centuries ago.
On the first day Of March the leading
1sraelites In Europe met In London.
There were not over Il dozen. but they
could control 100000, 900 francs, or
nearly sl.0CO.0 900. or nearly all the
ready cash In France, in twenty four
hours. They discussed the further
means necessary to the release of
Dreyfus.
Everything has worked out just as 1t
was planned. A combination OF such
enormous wealth and power Is pruc-
tically invlncible.
Another duty Is left to be done by the
Jewish Council of Three that Is en-
trusted with the solution of the Dreyfus
question. It Is charged with securing
the punishment Of the men who per-
jured themselves and shamed justice.
And the late heads of the general staff
realize that at last Nemesis Is on their
track, that the lie by which they tore
away the reputation of an officer who
had harmed or wronged none of them,
must be eXpated by such 4 punish
ment as the crime deserves and n
penalty that can neither be evadcd nor
mitigated. 1t can be no pleasant feel
ing to know that the fates are on ones
track In such q pitiless- form. Two
members Of the court that condemned
Drcyfus have already committed sui
eide. preferrinS to face the hereafter
beyond to facing the futur. here, and
though the prosecution has not SUBJ
mitted its line of charges against
Dreyfus at the new court martial, that
Will try him. there is no doubt at all in
the minds of his friends that he will be
triumphuntly acquitted.
The court convened is one OF high
rank and numbers q majority of men
who are known TO the whole French
army as being absolutely incorruptible
and fearless. Moreover, the order con-
vening this court reads. "for the trial
of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Thirty-first
Regiment. Eleventh Battery of Artil-
lery. and for such other prisoners as
may be brought before It." Now. who
are the "other prisoners" that are like
~ to ''be brought before it," 1t seems
highly probable that the same court
and officers that undo the Dreyfus
wrong. may deal with some of the
epauletted and high-placed scoundrels,
who lent their entire personal and off,
cial influence to condemn to living
death Il young man whom most OF
them had never seen. and one who had
never harmed or wronged them or
theirs. No wonder the orthodox Jew
still believes that there is n God in Is
rnp,