New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-15
! ANARCHIST PRISONERS IN MONTJUICH.
THERE STILL REMAIN ONE HUNDRED AND

TWENTY NINE CONFINED IN THE SPANISH
BAsTILLE-REFUGEE IN LONDON.
Aprcpos OF the expected arrival in New-fork OF
some OF the Spanish anarchists. it must be remem-
lered that there only twe1tyeight of those in
voved In the Barcelona trial. but not convicted.
who have been expelled from the Peninsula. and
that l29 OF them still remain in the fortress OF
MontJuich. A few days before the assassination OF
Cancvas del Castillo. a Madrid newspaper. Ell
Pals" published editorial declaring that this
fortress the Spanish Eastile Of the nineteenth CEN
fury should be demolished. ct Is necessary" said
the Madrid organ, that the world should know
that In Spain there people unwilling TO make
themselves the accomp,ces OF the tortures and
crimes committed there. 1t is necessary that it
should be known that we are no savages, but an
unfortunate people. badly governed. ruled by the
imltators Of the Hoy Office. with chief (Canovas)
who has won his title to be called an Inquistor."
The twenty-eght alleged Anarchists expelled by
the Spanish Government left the Montjuich fortress
and the harbor Of Barcelona board OF the Isla
de I.uzon They landed at Liverpool fort
night ago. and were led to the rooms Of the Inde-
pendent Workmen's Party. where they received a
provisional! hospitality The London Daily Chron-
ic!e" says that these political refugees behaving
properly the majority OF them being engineers cleo
tricans clerks. with a few shoemakers and masons.
After day and a hal. spent Liverpool, funds
having been collected for their railroad fare. the
twenty-eight Anarchists started for London. They
received AT Euston Square Station by many
revclutionists. among them the famous Louise
Michel. the French Red Virgin" on landing at
Liverpool they had adressed an appeal to the Brit
ish people. in which they recalled the horrible treat
mcnt they had suffered at Montiuch and to which
they feared that the l29 comrades yet there were
also subjected. though these had been declared not
guilty In the trial az barcelona in June, 1896.
The fact IL that tho Spanish Government, even
before the assassination of Canoyas, anxious
to get rid of the hundreds OF Anarchists whom 1t
wanted TO expel from its territory 1t had sup
posed Mt first that 1t would be an easy matter TO
send away the Anarchists considered dangerous
or suspects" though acquitted by the military
tribunals. 1t fanced that several foreign Gov
ernments would not object to the arrival of those
political refugees their wives and children who
Lad been allowed to chose the country where they
wanted go. Still, the Madrid Government had
taken the precaution to consult and sound some
and Austria refused 10 receive the Anarchists eX
He'd from Spain. France, Belgium and Italy also
nforma ton about the exiles before receiving them
upon their territory. Nor did England and Swift
zerland look complacently upon this disagreed Bile
immigration. Finally. the Spanish Government felt
poets" still detained in the Montjulch Bastile of
Barcelona
The law against Anarchists will permit the Gov
eminent 10 forward them to the customary places
nails Ii was thought at FIRST best to locate the ex-
lies at Rio de Ooro. new Spanish settlement on
II seemed probable that the Anarchists would be
sent To the ancient penitentiary OF Fernando 70,
still more to the south and near the equator Con-
sequently there are only the twenty -elsnt eHiieu
coming to the United States may have to be
watched.