Show 711I 1 COMJIlIMll I Zola Is Bulltyl The verdict anticipated antici-pated from tho beginning of the trial of tho French novellt has hn rendered ren-dered It to > k the Jurs only thirty minutes tu agree Probably the agreement agree-ment had been reached practically even before the evidence wa heard non They are cnnnlbiK was Zolas brief comment on the outcome of the trial The case hecoms significant Chiefly because Imlle Zola In constituting himself the champion of Captain Drey fus drew his word In the defense ot religious liberty Ho saw In the prosecution prose-cution of the condemned army officer an onslaught nn tho Hebrews us stub X nt notwithstanding I I the profession I of the Frenchmen that they believe lit the equality of nil men He was firmly convInced that religious fanaticism war thp motive Power And lie fondly hoped lo demonstrate lo the world that France when enlightened In the matter mat-ter would cndemn the conplrnlor Find proclaim 1 to the world that she It I still ill c home of equality justice and frate rally He has failed lie hai only proved that the agitation which lie lien characterized as Imbecile and Infamous has taken much hold of the French nation one hundred years after the great revolution that It Is dangerous to attack It The fact Is the untlsemltes have Succeeded tn convincing the mob that the destruction of the Jews lould mean Da era of prosperity and reform Probably many have Joined the movement move-ment from misdirected religious motives mo-tives hut the leaders seem to be socialistic so-cialistic demagogues who attack In the Jews the capitalists That Ihe government Appears In be on the able of the agitators Is an Indication of the gigantic proportions of the Anti Semitic sentiment France It can be no less I than In Russia or Germany M Zola believes that the sentiment Is passing Ho thinks the trick will he xnoied the mask taken from hy poerlay und France again Ile herself Others think thin manifestation of hostility tlllty toward a race In I but a necessary I prelude to the nationalization of that race In some country where they are no longer strangers To many this may appear Improbable but not more so than the existence today In n great republic ot a popular outburst of ragi against the descendants of the venerated vener-ated patriarchs of ancient hlstorj |