Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

The Dreyfus Verdict. Now France is on trial at the bar of civilization.—New York World. It is odious in the sight of every lover of justice and liberty.—lndianapolis News. France will suffer, and ought to suffer r for this infamous verdict. —Minneapolis Tribune. Justice has been outraged, manhood humiliated, militarism enthroned. —Omaha World-Herald. Dreyfus is vindicated in the tribunal of the civilized world and France isnow on trial. —Boston Transcript. The reconviction of Dreyfus will subject France to the just contempt of the civilized world. —Omaha Bee. France must right this great wrong speedily or submit to the contempt of honest people the world over. —Kansas City Times. There is no such peril for any land as that fact that, under the shield of its laws, the innocent are not safe. —New York Times. The French army, to vindicate whose “honor” both courts trampled justice and the forms of law, is crucified afresh.— Kansas City Star. The deathlike stupor with which the verdict was received in the court room foreshadowed its reception by the world at large.—New York Herald. The meaning of this verdict is that France is to-day a national degenerate, unworthy the respect of civilized peoples. —Memphis Commercial-Appeal. The crime will call aloud not merely for reparation, but in years to come it is to be feared for vengeance—and probably not in vain.—Pittsburg Dispatch. It is apparent that if the evidence of Dreyfus’ innocence had been ten times as strong he would have been convicted just the same.—Kansas City Journal. By the judgment at Rennes France stands self-condemned as being two centuries behind the age in some of the essentials of civilization.—Philadelphia Record. The Dreyfus case is only one example of what has been enacted to a greater or less extent in all countries by military courts. They are relics of the dark ages. —New Orleans Picayune. The general staff of the French army have earned the contempt not only of honorable soldiers in every land, but of all right-thinking people in uniform or out. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. If France be as besotted, as fatuous and as degenerate as some of her critics insist the Dreyfus affair will stop here and a more stupendous tragedy will be ushered in.—Washington Post. Who can criticise the starvling herd of Paris for accepting the vocation of the assassin when assassination that is worse than death itself is proclaimed as the policy of the Government?—Philadelphia Times. The only way in which France can now escape the contempt of Christendom is by such a prompt and effective revolution of public sentiment as shall force the undoing of this foul wrong.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Dreyfus infamy means that, for the time being at least, the military caste In France has more influence than the political arm of the Government and this is a humiliating and dangerous situation in a republic.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Boer and Briton. If Oom Paul Kruger will only get a dean shave all will be forgiven.—Louisville Post The Boer is too shrewd not to perceive the necessity for ultimate compliance.— Cape Times (South Africa). The principals in the South African troubles hifcve almost reached that point where talk ends. —Indianapolis News. Oom Paul hasn’t put the lawn mower on his face yet, so we guess he doesn’t really mean to fight.—-St Paul Dispatch. Oom Paul does not hesitate to intimate that Presidents have some divine rights as well as monarchs. —Washington Star. We shall .prefer to believe that Mr. Chamberlain is playing to the galleries of politics for his own ambitious purpose.— Brooklyn Eagle. The gratifying thing about Oom Paul is that all this advertising is not likely to bring him to this country to lecture.— Kansas City Journal. Now Great Britain appears in the light of a man who has been tricked into a bad bargain, claiming the rights he has yielded and agreed to. —Indianapolis Journal. The only ground on which Great Britain can now justify war with the Transvaal is that her imperial policy makes it necessary for her to control that State. Boston Journal. The Anglo-Saxon Alliance will certainly lie in abeyance while Great Britain proceeds to steal the possessions of some thick-witted but honest Dutchman near the Cape of Good Hope.—Wisconsin State Journal.