Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1893 — APPEALS FOR DE LESSEPS. [ARTICLE]

APPEALS FOR DE LESSEPS.

Public opinion in Paris is substantially unanimousto theeffeetthat theignominous judgment passed upon Count Ferdinand de Lesseps went beyond the requirements of Justice. The newspapers considered the sentences very severe, and especially that of Ferdniand de Lesseps. The Figaro demands the pardon of the man who has bee» one of the glories of France. Tho journal Des de Bats says: “To imagine striking down the creator of the Suez canal in his declining days to save tie public conscience shows a great misconception of the opinion of the nation.”