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FRENCH CLUB LECTURE.
MW. d@Audiffret Tells How Dreyfus’
Treachery Was Discovered.
On Friday night, Feb. 17, M. d’Au-
diffret delivered before the French Club,
an exceedingly interesting and in much
of its contents quite novel, lecture en-
titled ““Choses de France’ the purport
of which was as follows: At no time
has the history of France been more
interesting than to-day. The events of
the day are, however, for a Frenchman
painful; witness the sudden death of
President Faure. M. Faure’s’ great
popularity was due to his pretended
affiliation with the working classes, a
pretence that was encouraged by car-
toons and by all means, He was, how-
ever, in reality without any proletarian
connections, being a typical representa-
tive of the rich “haute bourgeoisie.”
To-day affairs in France are in very
nearly the same condition as in 1851,
at the time of the famous “coup d’état,”
which was not as republicans would
make out a crime, but a necessity, which
was for the good of France, and was
upheld by a tremendous majority in
the popular vote. Now as then things
have been going ill, and the people are
weary. It is only the lack of a fitting
man that prevents another “coup
d’état” to-day. Even as it is the Bona-
partists have very bright~ prospects.
The army of 1851 was hated by the
republicans because of its participation
in the “coup d’état’; but the army then
was really a mercenary one as only one
out of a hundred Frenchmen was
obliged to serve. But to-day everyone
is obliged to serve, and a campaign,
like the present one, directed against
the army is an attack on the French
people themselves. The Dreyfus affair
was started by the wonderful solidity of
the Jews who will not see one. of their
number condemned. They were aug-
mented by all the malcontents of ’48
and of the seekers of notoriety. Drey-
fus was not condemned because he was
a Jew, but is defended for that reason.
Had he been a Christian, there had
been no powerful: and solid party to
try to whitewash his character.
DISCOVERY OF DREYFUS”: TREACHERY.
Dreyfus’ treachery was discovered in
a singular way. A number of officers
were dining in the apartments of an
officer attached to a foreign legation,
who, after dinner, boasted that he had
in his safe, documents furnished him by
an army officer. This remark reached
the Minister of War, who had the
attaché kept under the’ strictest police
surveillance. In a few days a fire
started in his apartments by one of
those fortunate occurrences that are
called chances; the firemen were called
in, among whom was an agent of the
Minister of War, who, under the pre-
text of saving it, had the safe or rather
strong box taken out and carried to the
War Ministry, where all available per-
sons were set to work photographing,
tracing and copying the documents.
The attaché returning and seeing his
documents. gone, immediately com-
plained to his ambassador, who went
directly to President Casimir Perier,
threatening him with a declaration of
war within twenty-four hours if the
documents were not instantly returned.
The President telephoned to the War
Ministry where the papers were re-
turned to the attaché. Among the
documents of which they had not had
time to make a complete tracing was
the famous “borderau.” Consequently
the officer who was making the tracing,
copied the remainder in his own hand.
This accounts for a portion of the
“borderauw”’ not being in Dreyfus hand
writing, also for the difficulty with all
the documents, as there are none that
are original, all being tracing, photo-
graphs or mere copies. [This account
is absolutely accurate for it comes from
a person in high position, whose name
can not of course, by very reason of his
position, be given. ]
PROOFS CANNOT. BE MADE PUBLIC;
The manner of obtaining the proofs
of Dreyfus’ guilt is the reason why they
cannot be made public, as the French
government cannot acknowledge, with-
out causing a war, that they were stolen
YALH ALUMNI
from an attaché of a foreign govern-
ment.
All the documents forged by Colonel
Henry are of date subsequent to Drey-
fus’ condemnation, and did not form a
part of the evidence upon which he
was condemned.
Dreyfus said that his innocence would
be proved in three years, because he
knew that three of the judges whose
turn it would be to sit at the time on
the bench of the criminal chamber of
the Court of Cassation, before which
his case would come, were of Jewish
connection, and could be influenced by
the great Jewish party. ;
In concluding M. d’Audiffret said
that it was almost impossible to con-
vince Americans, on account of the in-
fluence of the papers; but these papers’
accounts of the Dreyfus affair come
directly and and practically unchanged
from London, where the press is con-
trolled by men who are Jews, and are
therefore working for Dreyfus.
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As To The Union.
[Yule News.]
The controversy over the Union goes
on actively, and even if the society, as
many claim, is dead, it seems to cause
great interest in debating—on paper.
The opinions of the supporters of the
several opposing policies are as vari-
ous and interesting as can be conceived.
The conservatives prefer the present
state to any change whatever because
they fear any change will completely
abolish the Union as an _ individual
society. The propositions of a ‘“De-
bater”’ are radical—highly radical; so
much so that it seems hardly possible
that the members of the Union will
consent to vote their own society out
of existence as a separate debating
body; and so leave themselves entirely
out of a society unless they happen to
belong to one of the class organiza-
tions.
But the scheme proposed by. Mr. C.
W. Wells seems to. have litle more
chance of success. The probability that
the. various societies—the Wigwams,
Kent, Wayland, Windy,
clubs—can be induced to debate against
each other once a month seems small
to those who know the opposition they
have made to even more moderate
proposals of a similar nature. The pro-
ject proposed by Mr. Wells is attrac-
tive. But the fact remains that the
Kent Club does not care to debate with
the Sopohomore Wigwam; not does
the Sopohomore Wigwam wish to meet
the Leonard Bacon Club, and so on.
The fear, which Mr. Wells expresses
that his scheme will be so successful as
to seriously injure intercollegiate debat-
ing by entirely absorbing the energies
of the best men in club debates, does
not seem to be founded on sufficient
reasons.
There are desirable elements in both
schemes—that of Mr. Wells and that of
“Debater.” But neither seems to stand
much show of immediate adoption.
The conservative Union policy is ap-
parently the most practical; but it fails
to show any adequate remedy for the
apathy in the Union, which still con-
tinues—witness the lack of a quorum at
a third of the meetings this year, even
though the discussion over the Union
is lively enough.
— ee
Yale “News” Elections.
The following elections to editorial
positions on the Yale Daily News were
announced Saturday, February 18:
1901—Henry Stiles Curtiss of Cleve-
land, Ohio; Warren Hoysradt of Hud-
son, New York.
1902—William Edwards Day of In-
dainapolis, Ind.; Henry William Ham-
lin of Canandaigua, New York; Payson
McLane Merrill of New York City.
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