“We do not hate the Jews as those who profess a religion that is contrary or even hostile to ours, but as a foreign race that once camped among us under a veil of tolerance, and under the cover of that tolerance carried out an actual invasion and created a Jewish France… When military justice does its part regarding the officer accused of treason, we will not feel at ease at all, so long as our country is being handed over to the Jews and the Freemasons.” Issue No. 132 of the newspaper Courrier des Alpes – The Alps Courier, a local paper published in France under the subtitle referring to the region of its distribution: Echo de la Savoie et de la Haute-Savoie – the Savoie and Haute-Savoie districts in eastern France, near the Alps, close to the Swiss and Italian borders. A particularly harsh antisemitic editorial opening the issue, following the arrest of Alfred Dreyfus. Tuesday, November 6, 1894 – after the name of Dreyfus was released in France as the officer arrested on charges of treason.
The leading article of the issue reports on the arrest of the Jew Alfred Dreyfus on charges of treason and attacks the Jews as a race that has taken over France, portraying the traitor Dreyfus as merely a symbol of a much broader phenomenon in which France is being handed over to Jewish hands.
“His name is Dreyfus, although he did not act in Guano. One could just as well call him Deutsch, or Judas Iscariot, like the one whom Renan called a ‘good gentleman.’ He merely sold out the army to which he had the undeserved honor of belonging, and France, which is not only the mother of the French, but gathers under her maternal wings, like a hen, many little ducklings that have not yet hatched.
We do not hate the Jews as those who profess a religion that is contrary or even hostile to ours, but as a foreign race that once camped among us under a veil of tolerance, and under the cover of that tolerance carried out an actual invasion and created a Jewish France. Moreover, their religion does not trouble them; they easily indulge in convenient slanders, and they are always ready to bestow upon their victims the infamous kiss of their great forefather…
This is a race, a race that is more than merely distinct, a race that does not assimilate, a race that is irreconcilable. They profit from everything, even and especially from our misfortunes. A minister named Crémieux nearly caused us to lose Algeria in 1870, while the Germans were covering our land, and another Crémieux placed himself at the head of a rebellion in Marseille at the same time. There are 100,000 of them in our country, and thanks to the Masonic Republic, they occupy a place as though they were 20 million, holding the principal public offices, guarding the pathways to power.”
Is it any wonder that the French public knew of Dreyfus’s misdeeds? He was arrested more than two weeks ago, imprisoned, so they say, under an assumed name. They tried to silence the scandal. Mysterious protections surround him… For a long time, we have been convinced that treason has been operating in France in preparation for the ultimate trial. When one does not know how to strike at foreign spies, when one does not even always dare to arrest them, how could the traitors not flatter themselves that they are benefiting from systematic weakness, chronic carelessness, and unconscious complicity?
Is this not also true treason, treason of another kind one that, in the world of the stock exchange and finance, backs the public funds of a state in the Triple Alliance and causes the Italian rent rate to rise in Paris to such an extent that our government felt compelled to suppress this betrayal? We should have known that our enemies would naturally turn the headquarters of the Ministry of War, the stronghold of national defense, into a shadowy place. They would have been more than naïve not to say: let us direct our underground operations in that direction. And we are convinced they do not have merely one Dreyfus in their service. More than anything else, this thought is what has always made us fear the inevitable war. When military justice does its part regarding the officer accused of treason, we will not feel at ease at all, so long as our country is being handed over to the Jews and the Freemasons.”
The “Courrier des Alpes” was a local newspaper published in France, bearing the title Echo de la Savoie et de la Haute-Savoie – “The Echo of Savoie and Haute-Savoie.” This was a regional newspaper that focused primarily on matters concerning the districts of Savoie and Haute-Savoie in eastern France, near the Alps, close to the Swiss and Italian borders. It was issued on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays by Imprimerie Savoyardine. Savoie was annexed to France only in 1860 (following an agreement with Italy), and thus the newspaper represents the local voice of a region with a strong regional identity that had integrated into the French Republic. Local newspapers of the time served not only as platforms for disseminating news but also as arenas for political positions, and at times even antisemitic views, as seen in the critical article against Dreyfus.
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