Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-09-11
BRITISH CRITICISM SEVERE.
People of England Boil Over with
Indignation Over the Drey-
fus Verdict.

LONDON. Sept. lit would be difficult
to describe adequately the indignation the
verdict of the Dreyfus court-martial has
evoked everywhere in England The ex-
citement in the Jewish quarters of London
is only natural Special prayers were Of
fered throughout Saturday in all the syn
agogues on behalf of Dreyfus, and as soon
as the verdict was known Jews and
Jewesses We're seen on every street corner.
expressing execration, and many sobbing
| bitterly.
At the music halls, especially the Palace
| theater, where cinematograph pictures of
the incidents and leading actors of the
Dreyfus affair were ehibited, the news was
greeted with groans and Kisses. In the
French quarter of London there was much
excitement, accompanied by street fighting.
In almost all the places of public wor-
ship yesterday pulpit references were made
to the verdict. Canon Scott-Holiand, at
st. PauIs cathedral, said:
"a nation is on its trial. France stands
at the judgment bar. All civilization is
waiting to know whether tomorrow s
news may add anything to qualify the
naked cruelty of a bare telegram, anything
to relieve the staggered conscience"
Rev. Mr.. Hugh Price Hughes. the we'll
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
Jeffries and other creatures. They have
| sentenced their victim to a decade of i'm
prisonment, but they have decreed them
| selves forever to the scorn, dersion and
execration of the human race. Unless
France shakes off this infamy she will be
left without an ally or friend
Rev. Mr.. Arthur Robins. chaplain-in-or-
binary to the queen, preaching at Holy
Trinity, Windsor said:
THE civilized world is aghast at this
great crime of five abject judges
The Daily Mail says: ''Rennes is Frances
moral Sedan
The Daily Graphic says: THE Rennes
verdict will live forever as the supreme
effort of human wrong-headedness."
The Daily Chronicle says that Mercier is
sues from the case one of the blackes
scoundrels in history.
The Daily News remarks: TT is NJ
longer Dreyfus but France herself that i:
on trial"
The Morning Post declares that 1.-The init
igation of the sentence will be interpreted
all the world over as evidence that th'
Judges who condemned Dreyfus really be
. lieve him innocent"
The Daily Telegraph says: This infa
, nous judgment disgraces France, dishonor
r her army, insults the kaiser and offends tn
best principles of humanity. There seem
, nothing left for France but revolution
, and d war that will reduce her to the leve
OF Spain"
, The Standard says: 1--WE are watching b.
the sick bed of a great nation, none know
ing what new and deadly form the malad
: | may assume"
The Times observes: I'VE do not hesitat
, to pronounce it the greatest and most ap
f palling prostitution of justice the world ha
witnessed in modern times. All the out
rageous scandals which marked the cours
of the trial pale into insignifcance be
side the crownng scandal of the verdict
4 With the exception of the Jesuit organ
4 in Rome and the anti-Semite papers, tn
= press of the whole world is ringing wit
5 execration. Even the Russian press Join
in the chorus, although perhaps the Jew
1 are nowhere more hated than in Russia
, The judges are everywhere described a
= criminals and gloomy speculations are in
[ | dulged as to what future Is in store 70
France.
I The German press is especially Indignant
= the National Zeitung remarktng that eve
| the worst enemy of France could not hav
| wished what has happened"
Papers of all nationalities fall in wit
the idea of boycotting the exhibition.