Connecticut western news., 1899-09-21
TO BE FREE TOMORROW
French Cabinet Decides to Par
 don Dreyfus.
LITTLE EXCITEMENT IN PARIS.

Decision Accepted With Equanimity
 by Most of the Anti-DreyfusardA
 De Pressense Outlines Campaign of
 Revisiontsts. .....r
 Paris, Sept 20.-The council of minis ters has decided to pardon Dreyfus in principle. "In principle" is an idiom sometimes used in semioficial announce ments of forthcoming action. It seems to have but slight bearing on the mat ter, except, perhaps, that it implies the fulfllment of various formalities before the pardon is actually issued.
 Dreyfus will be released on Thursday. He will still, however, have the right to appeal to the court of cessation to have the judgment of the Rennes court mar tial declared void and his innocence pro- claimed.
 This right he intends to exercise.
 The decision of the cabinet to pardon than would the result of big horse race. In fact, 1t may be said that It caus- ed no excitement whatever. There was no rioting on the boulevards. In front of the offices of the Libre Parole, where a crowd usually assemblies in the evening to gaze upon the huge colored transpar- encies outside the windows of the lead ing anti-Semite organ, there was not the slightest gathering or the faintest sign of a demonstration either Tor or against Dreyfus.
 The anti-Dreyfusard evening papers tried to infuse interest into the govern ment's action by rabid attack upon President Loubet, but their efforts were futile. The peaceful crowds that filled the tables in front of the cafes, slipping their after dinner coffee and cognac, looked at the newsboys who displayed the front pages of these sheets with their violent headlines, but utterly refused to get excited. The majority did not even discuss the matter or only made the pass ing remark that the decision was just what had been expected and predicted by every Parisian newspaper since the Rennes court martial.
 Pressense Outlines Campaign.
 The Aurore, the leading organ of the Dreyfusard body, today publishes an ar ticle by NJ. Francis de Pressense, the distinguished journalist, who from the first was a leader in the revision move ment. The writer says:
 'If the president by pardoning Dreyfus wished to spare France the ineffaceable shame of judicial crime, this exercise of his prerogative, called mercy, so far from impairing the necessary work of justice, will only prepare and facilitate it, for we must speak straight out.
 eff it was imagined that impunity for criminals could be purchased by pardon Ing an innocent man, if it was thought that the friends of law would barter ann nesty to the scoundrels who perpetrated those crimes upon the bruised body of the man from whom they have torn out the soul, then we throw from us this degrad- ing and deceitful offer. Dreyfus would be the first to reject as an infamy such traffic with his honor."
 M. de Pressense goes on to declare that when the generals have been punished the Dreyfusards will continue the cam paign until courts martial have been abolished and iron and fire have been carried into the sores of the diplomatic corps and society,"" The foregoing article clearly outlines the militant attitude of the Dreyfusards and shows that France will not be allowed to rest quietly, even though Dreyfus be set at liberty.
 The campaign for his release has given the Socialist party a weapon of which they will avail themselves to the utmost, and Dreyfusism will be extended more and more into socialistic agitation. More over, the Zola trial and Mime. Henry's prosecution of M. Joseph Reinach for defaming the memory of her husband will shortly come on, and they will be used by both sides as levers again to ex- cite public feeling.
 Pardoning Dreyfus, therefore, only closes one act of the drama, and France will probably again find herself in the throes of party passion before the Paris exposition opens its doors next May.