The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-13
ARMYWILLSURVIVE
N. ComeIy Laughs at the Attitude As.
sumed by General Mercier.
THE ACQUITTAL OF DREYfUS
Will Rather Rebound to the Honor of
the Honorable Officers.
F0RGERlES ARE NOT EXCUSED
BY the Members Of the Army Who Are Not
Partisans Of the ConSpirators.
THE WHOLE CASE IS BEING REVIEWED
NJ. Clcmenccnu Was Amazed at the
Course Which Is Being Pursued
by Colonel Jpunust.
By the Members Of the Army Who Are Not
Partisans Of the Conspirators.
THE WHOLE CASE IS BEING REVIEWED
NJ. Clcmenccnu Was Amazed at the
Course Which Is Being Pursued
by Colonel Jpunust.
Especial to ! s ST.,

New York, August s The Herald has
the following cable :. Paris: The fol-
lowing is from M. .ly's editorial In
the Figaro this MOI LAS the demon
stration of the gui = oreyfus before the
court martial at 8 IS becomes daily a
more hazardous PRISE the syndicate
OF those who de & he final crushing of
the unfortunate g ain has to pin its
faith to the sta poor General MERCER
and endeavor. through the press, to fix In
the tired brain of the public the following
argument: That the Dreyfus case Is now
more that judicial affair." and that the
very existence of the French army is in
volved, and that the drama of Rennes
will surely end in a catastrophe--for Drey-
fus or his accusers; for Dreyfus or the
generals. This reasoning Is altogether
malicious, and besides, is excessively
brnging. One must be deprived of COM
mon sense to put in juxtapositon the ac-
Judicial error and breakup of a free
institution, the French army. The band
can only be excused by the fact that the
contractors for the guilt of Dreyfus are IN
state of frenzy, in which they would set
fire to the universe, If they could, to
avoid the confusion of appearing in the
eyes of their comrades beneath the burden
OF voluntary error; and, also, because
they can say what they please of the
French army, which is not at their dis
posal. The only inconvenience of such
arguments is that they may make dupes
readers of the nationalist press who should
imagine that France no longer had an
army. will find out to their cost that this
good old press has been making game OF
them. believe we still have many friends
In the army. l correspond with them. and
see them actuated by sentiments quito
contrary to those attributed to them. Since
the Henry forgery they are persuaded that
no consideration warrants an officer, or
even a civilian, in committing perjury or
forgery. They despise press attacks on the
army by writer's who model their style on
end-of-the- empire journalism. They are
convinced that on the day Dreyfus is &C.
quilted they will exist and be honored,
because honorable. Lastly, they won't re-
greet to see disappear certain personalities
with nothing military but their uniform;
who, having set their subordnates NOV
ing, abandon them when the blow falls,
and who have found gulls to believe that 10
even discuss their acts is lese patrie."
In the Aurore, NJ. Clemenceau writes:
81 could but manifest surprise at see
ing Colonel Jouaust seriously question
Dreyfus on his statements In Esterhazy's
boIdereau. At first / thought it mere
form, and that the president was fain
to pass beneath the caudine forks of abb
surdity. After careful reading of the
examination. however, l am forced to
conclude that Colonel Jouaust appeared
to attach Importance to the questions and
pressed the accused hard, as If hoping
to elicit some light. If all the exhausted
discussions which had raison d'etre
before Esterhazy's avowal and the de-
cree of the court of cessation are to be
reopened it will be necessary to point
out to the president that the only motive
for questioning Dreyfus on the bordereau
Is because he was wrongfully condemned
for writing 1t, and that the error. album
dainty proved. was one of the causes for
breaking the sentence OF the first court
martial. Until the promised tyranny
comes the court of cassation is superior
to the court martial Colonel Jouaust is
certainly aware OF this. The court
martial over which he jsresides holds its
powers by decree of the court of cassa-
ton. The explanation OF Colonel Jou-
aust's attitude is that General Roget has
been made the mentor Of the judges of
Dreyfus. ! only see one means OF caus-
jug a reaction, and that is to consider
all our labor of the last eighteen months
non existent. and go over again. point
by points, with the fullest comments pos
sible the entire Dreyfus affair We must
begin above, explain the simplest things
and slowly but surely carry conviction to
minds that, after all, are not willfuIly
closed What asked is long and DIFF
fcult, but Dreyfus and his friends will not
shrink from 1t. Everything must come
into broad daylight--public dossier and Sc
cret dossier alike. There is only one peril
that OF France laundering In a sectarian
crime against an innocent man"