Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

The fall of the Maura ministry on the
2lst ultimo was not due directly to the
execution of Ferrer,
Aut1-0aura for already in Septem-
couh;r..,. her Senior Moret y
Prendergast had ef-
fected a combination to secure that OBJ
ject on the reassembling of the cortes.
When the king was Informed that the
oppos ton bloc controlled by Senior Moret
would abstain from discussing even the
most urgent measures and Senior Maura
and the ministry had resigned he prompt
ly commissioned Senior, Moret Prender-
CAST to form q new cabinet. MOret as
sumed the portfolio Of premier and the
ministry of the interior. Cabellero Of for
-sn affairs. Alvarado OF finance, de
Luque of war, Concas of marine, Gasset
or public works. Barroso Of public in
struction and De Campo Justice The
impression at Madrid is that the cabinet
will not remain long in power 1t il pre-
dicted that there must be a series Of
rapid changes bringing about q situation
like that which began with the insurrec-
ton in the fleet in 1893 and eliminated i'm
1873 with the abdication of King Anna
deus and the establishment of a short
lived republic. The attitude Of the repub-
lican party at Barcelona does not inspire
the true friends of Spain with much con-
f1dence in the assumed coming of another
republic. However. If it shall come there
may be an opportunity for Don Jaime
who in his manifesto in September de-
clared that he awaited the summons of
Spain at FrOhsdorf castle
On the other hand. Senior Cabellero, the
new minister of foreign affairs. who was
amba ssador to the Quirinal, is reported to
have said that there would soon be a
recourse to general election which
might serve to strengthen the liberals
A counsel of war at Barcelona on Octo-
Der IL condemned Francisco Ferrer to
death. He was condemned unanimously
as guilty of rebellion against the public
authority and of active completely in the
revolutionary movement at Barcelona
He was tried under the suspension of
constitutional guarantees. which forbade
recourse to civil Jurisdiction.
Ferrer was radical revolutionist but
he announced himself as professor Of
modern schools He
Ferrer's eschewed the title of an
r~..,,%,., archist. but his methods
were Identical Tgarte,
the procurer general of the court. declar-
ed him 1.-The soul and veritable head OF
the revolutionary movement without ref
erence to his correspondence and rela-
tons with anarchists and revolutionaries
Of all countries
A note from the government at Madrid
announces that 1t will submit the evil
dence Of Ferrer's culpabilty to the cor
tes II that announcement is exact. 1t
shows a very singular state Of mind at
Madrid, for had that government commu-
nicated that evidence to the press In
place Of cutting off all communications.
Ii would have anticipated the riotous
manifestations and bloodshed which have
followed the execution Of Ferrer not only
I'm Barcelona, but in Lyons. Marseil.es,
Milan. Rome, Vienna. London and Paris:
where anarchists have manifested ana
posed as martyrs.
Herve. for example. says In the Guerre
Sociale: I'VE have kept our word: 1t Is
not vagabonds or apaches who nave re-
sisted. revolver in hand. the brutes OF
the republican guards and the central
brigades Of police: 1t is we revolution
lists. We have had enough Of being whip
ned, knocked down and sabered by the
government apaches every time we un-
dertake a pacific manifestation in the
street.
1t is peculiar state Of mind OF the
anarchist chief to designate their mani
festations I'm the street as PACING, wnen
the recommendations of Herve and Jaures
have constantly appealed to their follow-
ers to employ violence. In order to avenge
the death of q Spanish revolutionisf, the
singular partisans of Herve and Jaures
have shot down several policemen In Faris
and attempted to kill the project Of police
The Figaro Seplores; nsvsrthe nesS the the
King of Spain by ministry too much
affected. perhaps, by the 0diOus menaces
and the repeated attempts to assassinate
Alfonso XIII. Ii is avowed by that pa
per that Ferrer was the active promoter
of the massacre at Barcelona. and re-
sponsible for the pillage and murders
committed there by the unfortunates
whose brains were turned by the sinister
teachings of a so-called modern school,
I'VE have also, alas says NJ. Cas-
ton Calmette, criminals of the same
class but our more hui
French name laws and our still
.AA milder customs do not
permit the application OF
the death penalty for the propagation OF
a policy however prejudicial to the inter-
ests of the country. M. Herye In France
Is as culpable as Ferrer in Spain, yet no
one would think of demanding hts execu.
ton il one day he should be condemned
for his ignoble apostolate
As for the manifestations in France II
is conceded they were prepared by the HUI
mantle the Guerre Sociale and other jour-
nails dear to NJ. Jaures and directed prin-
cipally against the ministry. 1t was
reply indeed to the appeal OF NJ BRAND
for pacifcation. and may serve to draw
the lines more distinctly than heretofore
between the elements OF order and disor-
der which composed republicanism in
France. Briefly. the Ferrer incident may
prove q blessing in disguise to conserva-
tive republicanism. which was being rap
idly submerged by the rising tide OF rev.
Olutionism.
Gen. de Luque. minister Of war in the