The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-18
QUEENS SYMPATHY
WAS WITH DREYFUS

Geneva, SUnday.-The journal La Suisse !
relative TO Queen Victoria and the Drey-
ITO mention only one instance of the
queens deep sense Of justice, I will con-
tent myself with recalling the attitude
taken by the sovereign during the years
of the terrible 'affaiTe.'
From the outset she had espOused the
cause of the innocent man, whom she de-
SCribed by the charming expression. the
just The smallest details of the heart
Iending drama were faithfully recOunted
to her. and often in private conversation
she spoke with tears in her eyes of the
sUfferings of the victims, for she felt as
much attachment as admiration for the
whole Dreyfus FAMILY.
Few people know that during the Rem
mes trial she mad instructed her ambaSSd-
DOR to keep her informed of the results of
each session. When, causing anguish
shared by AL her ent .urage the mOnSfrOUs
verdict became known to her, she had the
following dispatch sent off:
So Thanks for your kilograms giving the
he viii appeal against that fearful SEN
teEce. V r. 1.
Vate apartments and passed the greater
part of the evening in prayer for the Just
man and his admirable helpmate.
Among the great ones of this earth
there is not one who had a doubt of Drey-
fuS' innocence, vet there was no other
who dared so openly and frankly to dis
play sympathy for the victims of The
crime of 1894.
/ OF him whom the queen called the ust
man Paris. correspondent of an eastern
/ 'iThe unfortunate victim of the late ter
/ rible scandal is here in Paris, with his
| wife and children. leading. unmOlested, q
! quiet and peaceful life. He, of course,
J sees nobody but his most intimate friends
and it was by one of them that 1 was
taken the other day 10 call upon him. 1t
! seemed strange to be sitting there in an
/ ordinary drawing room talking of Ordi-
1 nary subjects to man the history of
1 whose martyrdOm has thrilled the whole
/ world and who less than two years ago
! was a tortured prisoner. And my impress
4 sion of him was stranger STILL | was
/ prepared to find the chilly hammered, I'M
I sympathetic man whom all his enemies
and a great many of his friends and de
tenders describe him as being. whether
he was all this before and Whistler tToubI5
has sOftencd him / do not know, but there
IS nothing in the least Tepellant about nm
now. The eyes that shine blue behind his
speCtac les are kind, and he has a kindly
indulgent smile and a soft. pleasant voice
For the rest, he is a rather small, th1T
man. with slight stOOp-the result
doubtless, of his Suffertngs and habit
shared by many of his race-Of sittins
with his hands Clasped on his knees. Ills
features are slight and not at all of Z
pronounced Jewish type, and he mas {
rather highly cOlored compleXl0n HI
hair has become quite white, and he has
grown a small beard.
Nine. -Dreyfus told me that when sh,
I first saw her husband after his return
from the Isle du Diable she found hin
terribly changed, but that she had nov
&
1 herself is horribly maligned in the photo
/ graphs that have been published OF her
She is really a very good looking woman
/ with q tall, straight figure. a face OF an
| Oriental type. large, clear, brown eyes
white regular teeth and "A good skin II
/ manner she is very composed, and Sh
struk ms as being very intelligent. 81
told me a good deal of the awful Struggi
: through which she had gone; OF the hrs
terrible times in 1894 when she mad III
, one but her immediate family to help he
? and believe in her husband innocence
of later on, when 50 many kind sympa
thizers moved by a conviction of the IN
nceence of the unfortunate captain, gain
[ cred round her. and then of the terr1bl
strain of the trial and her final despai
T when he was condemned again. But her
, came an interruption, made IN tne quiel
1 tired voice OF the captain: 4 was no
surprised said he; Il had expected II 70
several days" This, of course, led to
t talk of the future, and I found that al
I / though there seems no immediate pros
5 pect OF such a contamination. both nus
I ! band and wife are convinced that the 1T
-nOcence of the former VIII be made mani
] fest to all some day or anothsr. one ca
e / understand how. for their children 5 sake
e this must be the most ardent desire Q
: their lives. The little boy. pleasan
= | well hammered lad. has, SO his motbe
2 tod RE, had the whole situation expiaiHe
= ] u. him at last