Evening star., 1899-09-11
Verdict in Dreyfus Case Generally
Condemned Outside France.
REGARDED As BRUTAL AND UNJUST
The Prisoner Has Filed an AppIica-
ton for Revision.
LITTLE RIOTING YESTERDAY

LONDON, September 11.-With the ex-
ception of the Jesuit organs in Rome and
the anti-Semite papers, the press OF the
whole world is ringing with execratton.
Even the Russian press joins in the chorus,
although perhaps the Jews are nowhere
more hated than in Russia The judges
are everywhere described as criminals, and
gloomy speculations are indulged as to
what future is in store for France.
The German press is especially indignant,
the National Zeitung remarking that "even
the worst enemy of France could not have
wished what has happened"
Papers Of all nationalities fall in with the
idea of boycotting the exhibition.
1t would be difficult to describe ade-
quately the indignation the verdict Of the
Dreyfus court-martial has evoked every
where in England. The excitement in the
Jewish quarters Of London is only natural.
Special prayers were offered throughout
Of Dreyfus, and as soon as the verdict was
known Jews and Jewesses were seen at
every street corner, expressing execration
and many sobbing bitterly.
Groans at Music Halls.
At the music halls, especially the Palace
Theater, where cinematograph pictures Of
the incidents and leading actors Of the
Dreyfus affair were exhibited, the news
was greeted with groans and Kisses. In
the French quarter Of London there was
much excitement, accompanied by some
street fighting.
In almost all the places Of public wor-
ship yesterday pulpit references were made
to the verdict. Canon Scott-Holland, at st.
Paul's Cathedral. said:
"a nation is on trial. France stands at
the Judgment bar. All civilization is wait
To Gv,0x hot q a
add anything to qualify the naked cruelty
Of bare telegram. anything to relieve the
staggered conscience"
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes. the well-known
Wesleyan divine, preaching at st. James
Hall, said
Five unhappy judges have already taken
their places, in the Judgment of the human
race. beside Judas, PLATE, Judge Jeffreys
and other creatures. They have sentenced
their victim to a decade of Imprisonment
but they have decreed themselves forever
to the scorn, derision and execration of the
human race. Unless France shakes off
this infamy. she will be left without an
ally or a friend
Queens Chaplain Speaks.
Rev. Arthur Robins, chaplain in ordinary
to the queen, preaching at Holy Trinity,
Windsor, said: THE civilized world is
judges
moral Sedan"
The Daily Graphic says, "The Rennes
verdict will live forever as the supreme
effort of human wrongheadedness.
The Daily Chronicle says that Mercier
issues from the case one of the blackest
scoundrels in history.
The Daily News remarks: ut is no longer
Dreyfus, but France herself, that is on
trial.
The Morning Post declares that 1.-The
Df will ha int
preted all the world over as evidence that
the judges who condemned Dreyfus really
believed him innocent"
The Daily Telegraph says: "1his infa-
nous judgment diSgraces France, dishonors
her army, insults the kaiser and offends the
best principles of humanity. There seems
nothing left for France but a revolution
and that will reduce her to the level
of Spain.'
The Standard says: Eve are watching by
the sick bed of great Lation, none know
Ing what new and deadly form the malady
may assume
The Times observes: I'VE do not hesi-
tate to pronounce it the greatest and most
appalling prostitution of justice the world
has witnessed in modern times. All the
outrageous scandals which marked the
course of the trial pale into insignifcance
beside the crowning scandal of the YER
dict"
Denounced in Berlin.
A dispatch from Berlin says the Drey-
rus verdict causes feeling almost of stu
pefaction In that city. 1t has been hoped
that the statement Of the ReichsanZeiger
as emanating directly from Emperor Will
liam, would have rendered impossible the
repetition of what is described as "one of
the greatest judicial and political crimes of
any age"
1t is universally agreed that the second
verdict Is a grave political bunder, q vio-
latlon of the laws of civilization and an
act of moral cowardice which the world
will find it difficult to pardon.
The German press unanimously describes
the verdict as cowardy and impolitic, not
to say criminal.
A dispatch from Budapest, Hungary.
says: The following semi-official statement
has been issued:
"A movement is on foot against sending
exhibits to the Paris exposition in 1900
Many intending exhibitors have withdrown
their notices of participation on the ground
that the present state of things in France
renders it unsafe to send exhibits
Rome dispatch says: Proposals have
been made to both Austria and Italy to
boycott the Paris exhibition as d protest
against the verdict al RenneS.
Views of American Jews.
A dispatch from Chicago, ILL.,, says:
Prominent Jews Of America were asked by
the Tribune for their opinion on the Drey-
fus verdict All united in denouncing the
trial and its result as a travesty on Justice
Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago said:
at is the old, old story. When coun-
try wants a scapegoat on which to unload
all it's shortcomings it selects Jew. That
is true the world over. l have no doubt
that had Dreyfus not been a Jew the result
would have been different. In France 80
out of 100 people are convinced that he Is
guilty, and they think so because he is
lew.
II think the outcome of this trial will
influence Jews to stay away from the Paris
exposition. 1t will not be an organized
boycott but the natural feeling that France
is hostile to Jews will keep them away.
was jeered as Jew when in Paris this
summer and nobody under similar circum-
stances would wish to go to the exposition.
"The effect on the American people as a
whole may be different. Just now they
think France has done Dreyfus an inJus-
tice, but they will forget. Last year the
French reviled America because We dared
to whip Spain without Frances consent
This year the Partisan hotels could not
hold the vast hordes Of Americans. That
is the way we forget"
BEARS THE SHOCK BRAvELY.