The lengths to which the Anti-Semitic fury induced by the
Dreyfus affair is now carried is shown in an article in the Libre Parole of September 9th. M. Edouard Drumont, the famous Jew-baiter, on whom the mantle of the PZ;re Duchesne has fallen, apologises at great length for having ventured to excuse Colonel Henry instead of glorifying him for his brave "stratagem of war." M. Drumont quotes at length the regrets of another writer, M. Maurlais, that the opportunity for giving the martyred hero a public funeral was let slip. "We should have waved the blood-stained tunic and the soiled knife on every boulevard, paraded the coffin through the streets, and draped the funeral pall as a black banner." This " martyrdom " of Colonel Henry, according to M. Drumont, is absolutely due to the Jew organisers of the Dreyfus conspiracy, who are now becoming alarmed at the consequences of their "treason," and with cause. "For," we translate literally, "when the filthy Jew (Bernard Lazare) who organised the campaign wrote the ignoble page in which he insults Colonel Henry in his heroic death . . . his hideous face was convulsed by the Frismus of Fear. . . He foresaw Punishment . . . a hunt of Jews . . . the sewers loaded with corpses . . . the days of September." No doubt people who regard the forgery of evidence as an act of heroic bravery when directed against alleged traitors may consider a massacre of the instigators of the " treason " as a Holy War. The whole article breathes the very spirit. of the Terror.
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