| Show zotia ZOLA CONDEMNED zola is guilty the verdict anticipated from the beginning of the trial of the french novelist has been rendered it took the jury only thirty minutes to agree probably the agree ment had been reached practically even before the evidence was waa heard they are cannibals was zolas brief comment on the outcome of the trial the case becomes significant chiefly because emile zola in constituting himself the champion of captain dreyfus drew his sword in the defense of religious liberty he saw in the prosecution of the condemned army officer an onslaught on the hebrews as notwithstanding the profession of frenchmen that they believe tra in e equality q bality of all men he was fl convinced that religious banati was the motive power and he acm fc hoped to demonstrate to the world france when enlightened in the mat ter would condemn the conspirator and proclaim to the world that she sha te till still the home of w 18 equality justice adrift fraternity he has failed he ass only proved that the agitation whittle 1 1 I 1 he has characterized as imbecile cafa infamous has taken so much hold aw t tj the french nation one hundred d years yeara 0 after the great revolution that it 16 4 dangerous to attack it f 1 the fact is the anti semites haf succeeded in convincing the mob t thaw the destruction of the jews S mean abera an era of prosperity and probably many have joined the 1 ment from misdirected religious jj tives but the leaders seem to be atom cia listic demagogues who attack attach gifts the jews the capitalists that att government appears to be on the afe y of the agitators is an indication ot of 41 1 gigantic proportions proportion of the anti Z i semitic sentiment in prance france it cau kw no ho less than in russia or germany Ger manyi M zola believes that the 1 iii is passing he thinks the trick will hs exposed the mask taken from po crisy and france again be her h others think this manifestation of tilita toward a race Is but a nee necea prelude to the nationalization of t ahta race in some country where they aas 1 l no longer strangers to many abw may appear improbable but not awk so than the existence today in a jr rollf republic of a popular outburst of bmw against the descendants ot of the veffie iw abed patriarchs of ancient history 5 i ay ai |
