The San Francisco call., 1909-11-07


lofty American sense of the word, but
rather an anarchist of the Haymarket
type. is apparent from the following
excerpts from his doctrines, as taught
in the LAY nationalist schools N
Spain and telegraphed by its CORE
spondent in San Sebastian to the Paris
Temps. a journal which is not pro-
Catholic in t@e:
Those who organize armies are exc
cutioners, assassins of humanity.
THE cause of all the injustice from
shich men. whether privileged or dis
Inherited, suffer is found in the belief
in a supernatural beng, and in the re-
lations established between these men
by means of religion.
military men are men who have a
passion for murder and piilage; through
that they enjoy a glorious prestige.
The flag is a rag of different colors
at the end of stick, symbol of
tyranny and misery.
Every war undertaken under the
pretext of defending the honor of the
nation is a pretext for robbing 1t more
easily. Soldiers should use their arms
against those who gave them to them
to kill others. AT the first declaration
of war, before the cannon have sound
ed. the soldiers strike should be de-
clared.
The governments of Europe Kill for
simple pleasure every month more men
than there are stars in the heavens.
Property has been established
through spoliation and robbery under
the names industry and commerce.
"All evils, all suffering, all injustice
is due to that stupid and brutal thing
called our country
1t is difficult to see how any govern
ment could amnesty the propagation
TO one of his circulars "a recipe
for making good plancastile.' which
evidently was used with terrible ef
feet on the churches and converts of
Barcelona.
These precepts Were represented un-
der symbolical figures: q specimen of
which was seized at Valencia in one
of these schools, in which anarchy
is represented carrying a torch in one
hand and leaning with the other upon
a broken column.
At the foot of this column lie pell
NELL an overturned throne, some can
non, military arms, a KEPT Greatly
miter in this .case) pierced with a
poniard, a torn code of laws, the frag-
ments of cross, and, lastly, a royal
crown and some broken chains.
Once more Catholic spirit in Spain.
has risen with magnificent unanimity
to meet the attacks on religion in
that country. In 1906 there had al
ready been an outburst of the national
feeling which crushed the machina-
tions of Romanones and Canalejas
against the religious orders. Now the
outrages in Spain, the practical dem
onstration of Ferrer's anarchistic
that has rung throughout Catholic
Spain. More than a thousand associa-
tions of every class, whether rich or
poor. have Joined in this splendid out
burst.
That one and all. Carlists, inte-
grists, conservatives, Catholics of
every rank and class. irrespective of
the attack on religion, is the one
bright. assuring sign in Spain torn.
by political dissensions and changes
of ministry The cry resounds through
out Spain: Spain is Catholic. Catholic,
Spain will not be a second France"
There is a bright hope that the mach
inations of pseudo republicans"-
who know nothing of a republic such
as we have in the United States, but
autocratic parliamentary form of gov
ernment-are already defeated and
checkmated in Spain. :
It is falsely stated that Arturo de
Heeren and Miss Fernando wana-
maker, recently married in Paris, were
permitted by, the Vatican authorities
to be married a second time by
Protestant clergyman, after the Cath
olic ceremony was completed. There
were in thir case a civil and two re-
ligious Gers onies. 1t is we'll under
stood that the church law forbidding
marriage of Catholic before Prot
estant clergyman is infexible. The
Catholic who goes before a minister
TO be married commits a virtual act
of apostasy and incurs grave guilt and
serious penalty under existing canon
law in the Catholic church,; and this
law is uniform throughout the world
and among all nations.
Compare the following statement
concerning good citizenship with the
teachings of Ferrer, already quoted.
In view of the growing demand in this
country for some form of morality,
based on religion. in our public schools,
these words of Francis P. Donnelly,
Jesuit, are timely and noteworthy:
There is more patriotism in the OBJ
SeTNd0ce OF the ten commandments
than in all the cheering and fireworks
and singing OF national hymns and
flying of national flags the whole
world over. All that is but the bubble
foam Of the stream of patriotism. The
law, the reverence for the law the
practical recognition of it's dictates, is
the strong undercurrent. No ship of
state can sail long on any other waters
PUT on every citizen of every coun-
try the tenfold armor of Gods law
and then you may muster out all your
soldiers and sailors. make machinery
of yo.r guns, and build hospitals for
the sick and homes for the aged with
the money now burnt in powder or
thrown away in shot and shell.
I'VE have nihilism and anarchism
and individualism and paternalism and
communism and socialism, and a host
of other nostrums, especially devised to
cure all the diseases of country and
citizen. The only ism for the good
citizen is ten commandmentism' Be
without this and all the others accom-
plish nothing; have this and they are
all useless
Mechlin has Just witnessed another
of those magnificent congresses for
which the Catholic world, both in
Europe and America. is becoming so
noted nowadays. To such a fine point