The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-07

tion of his theories about the strengtf
 of the Jews in the movement for re
 vision. Since the beginning of the cam
 paign he has pointed out to his read
 CTS that the reVisionistS would neVel have thought of starting such cam
 paign if they were not supported by the
 great cosmopolitan power" The at
 titude of the press of the entire world favorable to Dreyfus, was to him but
 one of the signs of IsraeIs tremendous influence.
 While all but one of the great suppor-
 ters of Dreyfus are either free thinkers,
 Protestants or Catholics, some of them, like Col Picquart and Scheurer-kest- l her, having even, as Alsatlans, d l slight bent to antiSemitism, Drumont ] has presented them as tools of the Jew 1 ish syndicate. Thus De PreSsense, who
 for a year has been travelling all over
 France at his own expense, facing in-
 suits and even death; Maitre Labori,
 who has enlisted in the battle not as a
 professional lawyer, but as chiValrous and disinterested knight, proud of fight l ing for justice, and who refused to ae-
 cet penny from Zola; Scheurer-kest- ner, vice president of the Senate and well-nigh millionaire, are believed by 1 many to be paid by the mysterious | syndicate I heard a man asking the litterateur Barres on the last day of | Zola's trial, g few minutes before the sentence of condemnation, if he thought that the great novelist had been bribed.
 Such is the work of Drumont, who is in some way excusable for having spread that belief in corruption and
 greed all over the country, since he himself has made a splendid living with anti-Semitsnl. The poor little journal ist who 20 years ago was glad to earn the money of the Jewish owner of La Liberte. is now, like Rochefort. a rich
 capitalist, who rides .o his office in a private carriage, and who has found his
 Klondil1e in Jew batting. No wonder
 that money is so important factor in
 his policies
 The third great framer of public opin-
 ion is a man hardly over 40, who can
 not be likened to the two others as to
 their literary talent, because he has
 none Nevertheless, his Influence is
 very large. It is not due to any strik
 ing quality of his own, but merely to
 the paper of which he happens to be
 chief editor His name is Ernest Judet. Judet is a former college professor, who had been dismissed because he failed to
 fulfil his professional duties as q
 teacher. He became journalist and contributor for some years to several Paris newspapers without attracting any attention, until he became attached to one of Pariss most influential and most popular papers, Le Petit Journal,
 Ie Petit Journal which was founded in the last decade of the second empire by Jew, Milaud, was one of the first French papers that was sold for one penny, and as such it proved a great success, It is owned now by wealthy business man, who made his fortune as a printer and machine maker, MT Maronini, by the way, a Frenchman of Italian descent.
 Le Petit Journal owes it's large cir culation of about a million and a half copies day to it's non-partisan char acter Its clientele is made up chiefly of uncultivated people, working men, servants. janitors, old women, rentiers, soldiers and subaltern officers, who care little for politics, have no opinions whatever rather the only political opinion that ignorant people have, namely patriotism, Le Petite Journal serves them with just the stuff they care for--crimes, robberles, embezzle- ments, Another feature of the paper is it's feuilleton, that is to say, the novels that are published day after day. and which are written by popular roman cers, who have no claim whatever to literary merit. It aims only at being sensational and captivating as possi- ble, so as to bind the readers who have begun a story to buy the paper until the novel is finished. Many writers such as D'Ennery, Richebourg and l Jules Mary, have earned large incomes in working for Le Petit Journal Every l body who has walked in the morning | through the popular thoroughfares of | Paris has seen working men, clerks. | factory girls, going to their work read | ing, instead of the latest news, the con- tinuation of the novel which is going | on in their Petit Journal and in which | they are deeply interested
 Now, Judet has been clever enough to | vealize what kind of politics such a | public wants and he gives it with un- questionable ability. It is red hot l appealing to the childieh | prejudices of the masses against for sign countries. especially against 'per- tide Albion and against the threaten ng "Triplice." Now, Ernest Judet is | undoubtedly sincere patriot, although | ne never was a soldier and missed l great opportunity to fight for his coun- ny in the last war of 1ST0 but he be- ongs to that small number of noisy md reckless men of whom Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman said some time l lgo, speaking of both sides of the chan lel that they carry false and vulgar ! patriotism to the extreme extent of oily The Dreyfus case has literally l naddened Judet When Drcyfus was irst arrested he wrote. in his preten- ious and bombastic style, which is the ] aughing stock of Paris, that Dreyfuss 1 rime could only be accounted for by aying that that Jewish officer was not !
 true Frenchman. At that time, be- ore Dreyfus was convicted when he vas merely an accused man, who, ac- ording to law, had the right to be held ] innocent, he threw upon him a torrent f abuse and spread all over the coun- " those mendacious stories, which | ,1ir 1J l1f. 1lott to,11 CE tt,a+ !