The Dreyfus Affair

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 28.

The Dreyfus Affair

There has seemed to be rejoicing by the French Republicans and their friends for some time that each recurring morning found the republic still in existence. About the most unsettling thing which has occurred is the Dreyfus affair. The honor of leading men connected with the government and army has been seriously compromised; two of the witnesses against Dreyfus have either committed suicide or have been killed; a ministry or so has fallen, and the man who in seeming innocence caused it all—guilty only of being a Jew—has suffered terrible punishment in prison and exile. Now as he returns to France, granted a new trial by the supreme court, he must be carefully guarded to preserve his life.