Text Appearing Before Image: 1 .:i\\ v< r 1 .ilic DREYFUS, HIS ACCUSERS AND DEFENDERS Henry, i he sun ide : Dreyfus, the prisoner; Esterhazy, (In- onfessed criminal ; General Men ier, . hief .., .user. Text Appearing After Image: THE DREYFUS TRIALDrevfus in the act of declaring / a?n Innocent* THE RISE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC 283 In order to place the army in the condition which Thiers desired, anincrease in the military budget was necessary, and consequently an en-hancement of the general revenues of the state. For this purpose a returnto the tariff system, which had been abolished under the empire, was pro-posed, but excited so great an opposition in the assembly that six months passed before it could be carried. The new Re°rKanzat!°nr 1 11 • 1 ■ r 1 ■ of the Army organization 01 the army, undertaken with a view of placing France on a level in military strength with her late conqueror, was noweagerly undertaken by the president. An active army, with five yearsservice, was to be added to a territorial army, a kind of militia. And sogreat was the demand on the portion of the nation capable of bearing armsthat the new French army exceeded in numbers that of any other nation. But all the statesmanship of
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