The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-12
lola SPEAKS AGAIN.
~erves Notice TINT the Government
Must Pardon without Delay.

PARIS. Sept. 1.-THE Aurore publishes
this morning a long letter from Emile lola,
the novelist. which is pendant to his ia
nous II Accuse letter in the early stages
OF the revision movement. 1t concludes as
follows:
The Ministry. which its agents have be-
trayed, the Ministry which had the weak
ness to leave big children with muddled
minds to play with matches and knives.
the Ministry which has forgotten that to
govern Is to foresee-has only TO hasten to
act If 1t does not wish to abandon to the
good pleasures of Germany the fifth act
of TIE drama-the denouement before which
every Frenchman should tremble-
1T Is for the government TO play this fifth
act as soon as possible in orier tu prevent
its coming to Us from abroad. The govern
ment can procure the documents. Diploma
cy has settled greater difficulties tran this.
Whenever II ventures to ask for .he dccu-
ments enumerated In the bordereau they
win be given. and that will be the new fact
which will necessitate a second revision
before the Court of Cessation, which would
be this time. ] hope. fully infor ned and
would quash the verdict sans renovi II the
plenitude of its sovereign majesty.
''But II the government were to recoil
will do what Is necessary. Not one of US
will desert his post. Proof. invincible proof.
we shall finally end by obtaining. On Nov.
g we shall be at Versailles. My crial will
recommence. inasmuch as 1t is TO recon-
mence In all its fullness. II meanwhile jus
tice Ii nc. done, we will again help to do It,
MY beloved, my valiant. Labori, whose
honor has but increased. will. therefore.
pronounce at Versailles the address which
he was unable to pronounce at Rennes. and
II Is very simple. Nothing will be lost.
las for me, 1 shall not be silent. He will
merely have to utter the truth without fear
Of injuring me. for / am ready TO pay for
IL with my liberty and my blood. Before the
Seine Assize Court swore TO the innocence
OF Dreyfus. / swear 1t before the entire
world. which now proclaims 1t with me;
and repeat. the truth is on the march.
Nothing will stop 1t. AT Rennes il has just
made q giants stride.
II no longer have any fear except that
may see IL arrive in thunderciap of the
avenging nemesis, devastating the father
land. unless we hasten ourselves 10 make
IL shine forth under our clear sun of
France"
NJ. Zoia entities his article THE Fifth
Act" After describing his horror on hear
Ing the verdict. which he regards as a
moral Sedan. he accuses the army chiefs of
having crushed Dreyfus IN order TO save
themselves from prison. and makes APP
peal 10 the government which. he says, win
return 10 France the honor she has lost by
the Rennes verdict, verdict that he de-
scrioes as most extraordinary attempt
against truth and Justice" He asserts that
ne knew positively in January OF last year
that Esterhazy was the real traitor. the
latter having furnished Colonel Schwartz
koppen with numerous documents-many in
his own hancwriting-a complete collection
OK which is now In Berlin. Since then" he
says. II have lived in terror lest Germany
should strike US with the proofs OF her pos
session. thus dishonoring our army In the
face of Europe. in order TO yanquIsh it
easily afterward."