The Duke of Orleans, now the head of the House
of France, published on Monday a most injudicious Manifesto. In it he declares that those who advocate the revision of the Dreyfus trial are guilty of an "odious plot against the honour and security of the fatherland," and Ministers intimidated by them have become their accomplices. They have decided a question which is national without consulting the authorised representatives of opinion. "It is the Army which they are trying to destroy. Frenchmen, we are masters in our own country. To be masters in one's own country one must command, not obey. Servants subjected to an occult and pernicious power presume to impose upon you the will to which they themselves submit. Will you submit to it, Frenchmen ? The Constitution has been torn up, even by those whose sole title it was and who traded upon it. It exists no longer. Your most sacred rights are outrageously violated. Will you suffer this, Frenchmen F" The Manifesto, which proves that the Duke has neither the impartiality nor the acumen necessary to rule a great country, has fallen dead, ever. Royalists being dismayed by such an appeal to the Army against the civil administration.
