Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-11
HAY BOYCOTT THE EXPOSITION.

The feeling over the Dreyfus verdict is
so intense throughout the civilized world
thai the great exposition planned by
France for next year may suffer an
eclipse. Many of the leading
of the old world unhesitatingly declare
that a country which will prostitute its
judicial functions cannot be entrusted
with the care OF valuable exhibits which
cannot be replaced if destroyed or stolen.
An unorganized movement. acquiring it's
yelition from the strength of public senti-
ment. Gems to be already under head
way looking to a boycott on the forth
coming international event in Paris.
The press of Germany are ~outspoken,
keenly feeling, as they do, the insult inn
piled by the refusal of the court martial
to hear the foreign witnesses who were to
speak by authority of Emperor William
mitted to testify as to the innocence of
Dreyfus, on the theory that they We're
parties to the crime and would naturally
seek to shield their associate from the
punishment his due! In this, the court
not only betrayed it's utter Indifference to
the cause Of justice in the abstract, but
it committed France to a political blum
der that may prove far-reaching in it's
results. Germany has a grievance of a
character which in times gone by would
ave called for a prompt apology or war.
no such result can be anticipated, for the
prizes of peace are esteemed of greater
value than the opportunities of war.
1t is not unlikely, however, that Ger
man sentiment will express itself through
a boycott on the exposition, in which
thousands upon thousands of Disguised
human beings throughout the world may
join. It goes without saying that the
Jews will refuse to visit Paris next year
and contribute their money to the pros
perity of France. The loss of patronage
from this source alone will in itself do
much to cripple the effort that is being
put forth to make the exposition the
browning event in the birth of a new
century.
The millions of Jews scattered through
u the civilized world are important fac
tors in the progress of modern civiliza-
ton, and their influence in shaping affairs
can neither be overlooked nor ignored.
From the days when Abraham laid the
foundations of empire in the Judea of the
long ago, down through the centuries of
growth, the Jewish people have held
within their lands the sacred elementals
of human progress and development, and
the world owes much to their ability and
enterprise in all that goes to make up the
splendid civilization of today.
The outrage perpetrated on Dreyfus is
looked upon as a personal affront by
every Jew in the world, and the influence
of that people will be thrown against
France and its undertakings, until the
great wrong is righted and the scales OF
Justice are no longer operated by con-
spiracy and fraud. Sunny France, with
its vine-clad hills and it's flower Despair
gled dells, it's beautiful and picturesque
rivers and it's shrines of art, lies under
the incubus of a spell that tastes of the
memories of the goddess revolution that
drenched her history with blood, and
again pictures upon the imagination of
the world the moldy spectre of the Bastile
and the horrors of the past.