The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-13
THe WORLDS REVERSAL
OF the Judgment Of the COurtmar-
tiRl nj Rennes.

OF the Judgment OF enc COuftInaF-
tiRI NJ Renncs.
New York Press: AS from Rennes pro-
ceeds to the world the verdict OF con-
domination Of the accused, so from the
world proceeds to Rennes the verdict
of condemnation of his condemners. 1t
is the first sitting of the court of inter-
national public opinion in full bench,
under the modern conditlOns-the tele-
graph, the cheap press and the llterate
democracy-which allow the coEcentra-
ton of the vast conglomerate mind Of
mankind upon the evidence in the case
at bar. There have been trials-notably
those of Louis XVI. and his queen-in
which the world hRd all the breathless
and Mortified interest that has pertain
ed to the Dreyfus trial. But the world,
the Intelligent world OF those days, was
a very small place, and, small as 1t was,
news OF what went on In foreign parts
of 1t came to 1t only brokenly and slow
ly. Not until September ., 1893, was
there presented an occasion in which
the whole OF civilization might sit In
judgment on courts dcisleon and an
nOunce its affirmation or reversal on the
day OF deliverance.
or all world sights Of the time this
instantaneous unanlmlty OF universal
disagreement with the verdict Is the
most Impressive. OF all world sounds
OF the time this laundering chorus OF
condemnation of court, army and ma
ton is the most overwhelming. The
whole of humanity cries out at once.
The German emperor, with his final em-
phatic protest OF the prisoners limo.
cence, and the people of remote Penn
syIVanIa village, with their feyerish de-
mand for the Intervention OF Great
Britain and the United States, are OF
one mind and Of one infection, II not OF
one word. The blood OF the Magyar Is
up in Budapest and of the Kentuckian
in louisville. Wherever on this earth
including even a part Of that Paris
where, as the Temps cody informs us,
foreign countries are considered as
"Eivlng the matter far more Import
ance than It deserves"-there Is free
thought and a free method OF express
sion there is denunciatlon.
When French courts verdict once
before shocked the world, 1t was only
the kings who mustered their armies
to its reversal. Now It Is the peoples
who Indignantly reject that Judgment;
II is the revolving soul and conscience
OF mankind. Not In arms will Its de-
cree OF dissidence be executed. 1t will
be in n withdrawal Of fellowship, the
more effective because unofficial and IN
dlviduaI. Against this universal shrink
ing from contact with a polluted peo-
Pile, q nation sunk In that hopeless I'M
morality which cannot recognize injus-
tice, no JemmapeE nor Valay can be
glorlously won, no Waterloo can be
honorably lost. The spiritual forces
which set out to avenge the decapita-
ton OF Justice in France are far might
Ter than the hosts Of the flesh which
marched to avenge the decapltatlon OF
royalty. They are the baillffs OF the
court : mathematician public opinion.
for the first time pronounclng unani-
mously and Instantly It's Judgment OF
acuuittal Of the condemned, OF convic-
ton OF the condemninK. And their sem
tence-In the probale event Of the Drey-
fus Judgment being enforced--is the rel
egatIon Of France to the place where
her example may no longer concern the
world where her barbarlties arouse
only the curious interest, the passing
nausea, OF the executions Of reformers
ordered by the Empress DowaRer OF
China, or the punishment melted out to
his enemies by some Guatemalan dc
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