hidden intentions to undermine our institutions, but the French army
cannot be an army of one man. There is not a single officer capable of
an attempt against the country, for our officers have other dreams."

From this speech it is plain that the French Government is exerting its
power to crush the present movement in favor of Dreyfus. But those who
have followed the Zola trial carefully and impartially are convinced
that the Government will fail. What the result will be, no one can tell.
But there are many who believe that one result will be a revolution
ending in the overthrow of the republic.

This, however, is an extreme view.

No one really believes that Zola will be kept in prison for a year, even
if he does go there. He himself has borne his sentence like a hero, and
is willing to accept it without an appeal. His lawyer, however, and his
friends will do their utmost to save him from suffering so gross an
injustice.

Even if Zola were guilty of libelling the army, his intentions were so
honorable and unselfish that any fair court of justice could not have
failed to have acquitted him, or at most to have given him merely a
nominal punishment.

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It is plain that behind the Zola case there lurks a very deep feeling
against the Jews. It is thought by students of French life at the
present time, that this is the real cause of the terrible bitterness of
the French people against ex-Captain Dreyfus and his defenders. They