NEW ZEALAND'S "DREYFUS CASE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 2887, 12 December 1898, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND'S "DREYFUS CASE.

» The Auckland Herald commences a leading article as follows :—" Civilisation is aghast at the depth of depravity and baseness which attaches to the French people, m regard to the Dreyfus case, and we m New Zealand have been as ready as any m holding up our hands m horror at the degraded state of a people who can tolerate such things. But as a matter of fact here m this colony has been perpetrated a more scandalous and flagrant denial of justice than that of the Dreyfus affair. The world has come to speak of France as a decadent nation, as a people who were tending to utter baseness and degradation. It must be shameful to any nation that justice should be denied to any individual—that is the French case. It is infinitely more shameful that laws should be passed by the representatives of the people, for the special purpose of doing an injustice to an individual—that is the case of New Zealand. It may be that after all Dreyfus is not innocent of the crime he was charged with; m our case there is no doubt that Ministers and the Parliament have done an injustice designedly and with their eyes open, and when convicted refuse to take a single step to remedy that injustice. These expressions are by no means too strong for what has been the action of Ministers and the Liberal party with regard to the Horowhenua case, and Sir Walter Bnller and the late Major Kemp." The article goes on to give a summary of the case, and to describe the party voting on the matter m the House, and concludes with a hot shot :—" We read of officers connected with the Dreyfus case cutting their throats when the iniquity was exposed. No fear of anything of that kind amongst our politicians."