New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10


aro-y piece of writing, having for text the
Ireyfus case and for its final cause the vindica-
ton of French radicalism- Written by he
brew and partisan Of the Left, il presents opin-
ions which might be called socialistic, if in the
France Of to-day such an adjective had any
aefnite connotation. But the term socialism
may be predicated Of many kinds OF doctrine.
from that OF NJ BRAND and his majority to
that Of Jaures Herve and the anti-militarists.
N HaleTy lameuts the fact that the victors in
tie Dreyfus case have been So Indifferent as to
the results Ct their triumph, while the discom-
fled and vanQuished grow every day more
boastful ana insOlent. Those who were for-
merry optimistic reTolutionists have become pes
simists unable or unwilling to take advantage
q their signal Victories.
Why. asks NJ. Haleyy, did the cause Of Drey-
tus awaken such enthusiasm in his favor? 1t
was not simply because he was unjustly &C
cused condemned and imprisoned Such things
have happened 10 others without CONFUSING
whole nation. Nor was it because he belonged
70 a certain race while his judges were OF
certain caste The unjust condemnation OF
Jew By soldiers does not account for the revolt
tiona-y movement Of the Dreyfusards- Yet the
D-eyfus case can be compared TO no other 1t
Is al exception. He bore the hatred Of whole
People He is Jew. To defaule him as he was
cefaned was to defame race And in rehabllI-
iating him, one rehabilitates a man condemned
1ot By al obscure jury nor a single court OF
Justice. He was arrested and then tried and
judged by the general staff Of the army, by the
Minister OF War and by the passionate viii OF
he people To rehabilitate him to strike a
low al French society and diminish its patri-
nony Of honor. In the revision Of the process
rrorc1 ~ al and
he opponents OF the accused claimed that
French society was 10 have thu benefit Of the
doubt
II. H2leVy reviews the successive stages In
The progress Of the affair"-the arguments of
Anatole France, Of Clemenceau and Zola, the
legal RESUMES OF Reinach and Dutrait- Crazon
he says that at different moments during the
Glsls doubts and problems were presented
which a. length We're dissipated and solved he
le-s how lola became interested in the case
after he had heard Leon Daudet's triumphant
Description Of the degradation OF Dreyfus
These advocates Of the accused officer Were sec
ended by Demarge, the advocate, and certain
Jews moved by feeling. the justice OF which
vas proved by the result The thesis which NJ
Halevy defends more or less explicitly is this,
hat the reactionists and the Right generally
had il IL their power to do justice to Dreyfus,
anc, more than this TO realize the ideals OF the
French Revolution But the conservative
Parties failed. Thus the power has passed to
NE extreme Left. For the assault OF which
WIN US France was the victim We hold respon-
Eoe the hGute Gourgcoisie, complacent TO the
'es1rs and indulgent TO anti-Senitic dema-
sogues." The reactionists had easy way
Vi+n 10 them because OF the clever writers en-
listed their side-Taine, Renan F1aubert,
bocrget BrUnetiere and Barres. These were
ue intellectual masters Of France. The author
eOHIsares the influence Of Renan and Of Tame
the following striking, if exaggerated.
Iassage:
xt f-sian respected and lamented the illusion
seouced by it He had passed through the
So 81 months Of 1s4s without q movement OF
10 o.alalh!, reading Marcus Aurelius and seeking
So, Grace, q Cslvlnism without God rational
Without revolution, such was his distinctive
O. -.t0e He expected nothing Of men Renan.
cs--I,~-a'y governed by reason enlightened con
lsaag its oestinies. He might modify his
WSoshts, but MS heart did not change
Esr-1I ht considered the disorder of his country
"a Si4 was sad, without being afraid. Tame felt
oloe sadness which is a pure sentiment anc
winch Is not
III according 10 NJ. Halevy, Renan, SO FAY
regarding revolutionary ideals as chimeri-
"as willing to wait and whether in the
- Iney might demand realization. Originally.
g, 1ihEs the supporters Of Dreyfus did not con-
d homogeneous party, and In this he Is
what was the Dreyfusard party? There
ffotestants irritated at symbol jurists
TO-. as 10 forms, women weeping for a