e Zola trial carefully and impartially are convinced
that the Government will fail. What the result will be, no one can tell.
But there are many who believe that one result will be a revolution
ending in the overthrow of the republic.

This, however, is an extreme view.

No one really believes that Zola will be kept in prison for a year, even
if he does go there. He himself has borne his sentence like a hero, and
is willing to accept it without an appeal. His lawyer, however, and his
friends will do their utmost to save him from suffering so gross an
injustice.

Even if Zola were guilty of libelling the army, his intentions were so
honorable and unselfish that any fair court of justice could not have
failed to have acquitted him, or at most to have given him merely a
nominal punishment.

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It is plain that behind the Zola case there lurks a very deep feeling
against the Jews. It is thought by students of French life at the
present time, that this is the real cause of the terrible bitterness of
the French people against ex-Captain Dreyfus and his defenders. They
believe that the Dreyfus party represents the Jews of France, for whom
they have an intense hatred.

It should be explained here that the Jews have acquired an immense power
in France, as they have, indeed, all over Europe. They are the great
financiers of the world, and their power is so extensive that it has
created the alarm and jealousy and malice now finding expression in
Paris.

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The Government of France is now in so dangerous a situation that there
is a good deal of discussion as to what will happen in case the republic
is overthrown.

The President of the republic, Felix Faure, is popular throughout
France, but he has hardly strength enough with the people to become a
great leader. A few months ago he won enthusiastic approval by the skill
with which he arranged his visit to the Emperor of Russia, and by the
dignity and simplicity which he displayed during that visit.

President Faure is essentially a man of the people. For many years he
has been prominent in the commercial and the political life of France,
and he has always been a champion of the people's rights. But he is not
the kind of leader that would appeal strongly to the army, and, as we
have seen, the army practically controls France at the present moment.

Consequently, if a revolution were to take pl