The Secret Spring in the Dreyfus Case
“The Secret Spring in the Dreyfus Case,” Prof. Cesare Lombroso, of Turin, Italy, in the Independent of June 22, declares to be the plotting of the Jesuits to turn France back under the control of the Roman Church. While the Jesuits did not create the Dreyfus intrigue, they have used it to further their ends, to represent the Hebrews as enemies to France, to pave the way for the same sort of thing with Protestants, “and thus they meant to end by having France united in the Roman Catholic faith, and, what was of the greatest importance to them, in blind, supine subjection to the church.” Professor Lombroso finds his evidence for this in the nature of Jesuit plotting, in money furnished Esterhazy, presumably by the priests, in the intrigues of the generals with a priest of that church, in the sermons of another priest, and in the attitude of the young men tutored by the clericals; and he recalls the words of Gambetta, “Clericalism—that is the enemy.” And what is true of France is true of every land of importance not under papal control.