Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22

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h Dreyfus Verdict,

h Drcyfus Verdict.
Now France is on trial at the bar of
eivilizution.-New York World.
1t is odious in the sight of every lover
of justice and liberty.-Indianapolis
e,iews.
France will suffer, and ought to suffer,
for this infamous verdict.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
Justice has been outraged. manhood
Inundated, militarism enthroned.-Oma-
ha' Worid-Herald.
Dreyfus is v%indicated in the tribunal Of
the civilized world and France is now on
trial.-Bostsn Transcript.
The reconviction of Dreyfus will SUBJ
ject France to the just contempt Of the
civilized world.-Omaha Bee.
There is no assembling the fact that
France stands face to face with the grav-
est crisis since Sedan.-Boston Tran
script.
France must right this great wrong
speedily or submit to the contempt Of
honest people the world over.-Kansas
City Times.
There is no such peril for any land as
that fact that, under the shield of its
laws, the innocent are not safe.-Ncw
York Times.
The French army, to vindicatc whose
"honor' both courts trampled justice and
the forms Of law, is crucified afresh.-
Kansas City Star.
The deathlikc stupor with which the
verdict was received in the court room
foreshadowed its reception by the world
at large.-New York Herald.
The meaning of this verdict is that
France is to-day a national degenerate,
unworthy the respect of civilized peoples.
Memphis Commercial-Appenl.
The crime will call aloud not merely for
reparation, but in years to come it is to
be feared for vengeance-and probably
not in vain.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
1t is apparent that if the evidence Of
Orcyfus' innocence had been ten times as
'rong he would have been convicted just
! M saaniie.-Kansas City Journal.
I;y the Judgment at Rennes Franco
ands self-condemned us being two cen.
lurics behind the age in some Of the es-
scntials of Observation-Disclosures
Record.
The Drcyfus case is only one example
Of what has been enacted to n greater or
less extent in all countries by military
courts. They are relics of the dark ages.
New Orleans Picayunc.
The general staff Of the French army
have earned the contempt not only Of
honorable soldiers in every ind, but Of
all right-thinking people in uniform OF
out.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
II France be as besotted, as fatuoua
mt as degenerate us some of her critics
insist the Dreyfus affair will stop here
and a more stupendous tragedy will bd
ushered in.-Washington Post.
Who can ~criticisc the starving herd Of
Paris for accepting the vocation Of the
assassin when assassination that is worse
than death itself is proclaimed as the
policy Of the Government? lPhiladelphia
Times.
The only way in which France can now
escape the contempt of Christendom is
by such a prompt and effective revolution
Of public sentiment as shall force the I'm.
doing of this foul wrong.-St. Paul Pion.
Ger Press.
The Drcyfus infamy means that, for
the time being at least, the military caste
in France has more influence than the POI
litical arm Of the Government and this is
a humiliating and dangerous situation in
u republic.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Trance joins the dark and doomed cat
cgory of nations which deny justice to
| the weak and the innocent and of whom
a righteous retribution will in due sea.
son be demanded by an eternal justice
whose DEGREES outlast the life Of nations.
Philadelphia Press.
Nothing can be more grotesque, ever
i'll Franco, than the fiction of military
honor prostituting itself to the most re.
voting crimes of forgery, perjury, libel
and conspiracy against an innocent and
dcfenscless brother in arms that such
honor might be preserved.-Dctroit Free
Press.