Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — THE SHOOTING OF LABORI. [ARTICLE]

THE SHOOTING OF LABORI.

It assuredly cannot harm the cause of the accused. —Washington Star. It is to be hoped that it was merely the act of an individual assassin.—New York World. From this distance affairs seem to have assumed a very serious aspect.—New York Times. Assassination crowns the edifice constructed by forgery and perjury.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. The omens are ugly, but this shot heard round the world may prove the salvation of the republic.—Philadelphia Press. It now seems impossible that the Dreyfus matter can be disposed of without the spilling of more blood.—Boston Herald. It supplies just the element that was lacking to turn public opinion strongly in favor of Dreyfus.—Buffalo Express. The assassination of Labori is quite in keeping with the whole course of the persecutors of Dreyfus.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch. Labori was too well versed in the details of the case, Labori knew too much, Labori had to be removed. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. It needed but the hand of the assassin to give the finishing touch of crime to the accumulated infamy of the Dreyfus case. —Rochester Herald. The blood of Labori will speak for the cause he championed far beyond the reach or compass of his eloquent tongue. Record. France is under a most threatening x cloud and the-' army, the most corrupt army on earth, is the cause of it all. — Kansas City Times. It is not easy to believe that justice to Dreyfus could, at this late day, be again turned back at the bidding of a bullet.— New York Mail and Express. It will be impossible to convince the public that this deed was not inspired and procured by persons interested in the reconviction of Dreyfus.—Atanta Constitution. Little else, except an attempt upon the life of Dreyfus himself, could be so certain to convince the people of France that Dreyfus is innocent.—Boston Advertiser. The attempted murder can hardly fail to arouse a still stronger public sympathy for Dreyfus and Labori’s prediction may be fulfilled: “I may die from this," he is reported to have said, “but Dreyfus is saved." —Minneapolis Tribune. The attempt upon the life of Labori reacted, of course, instantly, and with irresistible force, in favor of the man whose cause, despite obloquy and abuse, he has championed so ably and so courageously.—Boston Post. Demoralised as the French army maybe, it has not reached such depth of degradation as to tollrate as brother officers men suspected of being partners to a crime so infamous, one against the prisoner at the bar of justice.—Boston Transcript. With assassination an actual Incident of the trial, with duels, persecutions and suicides playing prominent parts In its preface and with revolution a terrible possibility ot its finish, is it any wonder the world’s eyes are focused upon France?—Cincinnati Commercial-Trib-