The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-03

counsel, and had eight days to prepare
for the trial. During the reading of the
summary, Ferrer paid the closest at
t%ention, now shaking his head in dis
sent, now smiling ironically, but pre-
serving throughout an exterior calm
ness.
Fifteen witnesses deposed. The testi-
mony showed Ferrer's efforts to stir
up men in the suburbs TO join the
rioters, and his %instigation to burr the
converts. Three witnesses testified to
seeing him actually leading a group of
rioters. The testimony and the docu-
ments found in his house were the
groundwork of the prosecutors address
to the court, which was dispassionate,
-well-reasoned and moderate in tone.
Counsel for the defense followed with a
brilliant and eloquent plea. Ferrer
was the asked whether he had any
thing to say in his own behalf. His
few remarks, in slow, uncertain tones,
produced an u~nfavorable impression
on the throng in the courtroom, as was
seen in their faces. The session was
then declared at an end and the public
filed out in a quiet and orderly way.
Late Tuesday evening, October II,
some Brothers of Peace and Charity
were seen on their way to the fortress
of Montjuich. The news spread fast.
1t was a sign of h approaching execu-
ton, for the brothers attend those con-
demned to death, and do what they can
to prepare them. On the following
morning a few curious people, about a
score in all, were lettering in the
vicinity of the fortress. The country
people were at work in their fields. In
the city below, the busy hun of peace
full labor Inc trade was heard as If
July had never been. No smoke and
flames from the incendiary torch were
there, no bowling miscreants bent on
pillage and murder. At 8 o'clock, the
loiterers heard a volley from the hill
side. Francisco Ferrer y Guardia had
paid the earthly penalty of his crimes.
d. P. s..
Such was Ferrer, such his crime. The
New York Sun of October IA says:
"Ferrer must have realized that he
was but paying a penalty for which ne
had b~argained. He had openly melted
the Barcelona disturbances. The APP
peal to the King was absurd; it was
his duty to keep bis hands Off" Was
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than the ignorant men who killed and
burned at his command at Barcelona?
And yet this is the man Professor Math-
eWs says is one of the best friends
the human race ever had. This is the
man he considers it an honor to praise
and whose ideals he considers above
the prevailing ideals of today. This Is
the man he sat by and heard compared
to the good and gentle Jesus of Naza-
reth and aid not repudiate the bias
phemy. This is the man whose work
he sat by silently and heard praised
and deemed worthy of being carried on
till the whizZing bullets should reach
Morgan, Rockefeller and the rest. If
this is not melting to murder, what is
it? m is this man who stands spon-
sor for all this fit to be held up to the
young as a model and Trainer of their
future action?" Will he go unchecked
fer his participation in that libelous.
blasphemous, anarchistic meeting, and
may he, like the best friend teach
that the flag is a rag. a symbol of
tyranny; that every injustice is 1ue to
that brutal, stupid thing called ma
tive land?' Will he, maybe. get a copy
of the picture Ferrer had in his Valen-
ella School and hang it up-to instill
humane and patriotic sentiments into
the minds OF the youth of the High
School-the picture representing AN
archy with a blazing torch, standing
near the ruins of a throne amid brok-
en- military weapons, a soldiers car
pierced by a dagger, a torn copy of the
laws and fragments of the cross?''
What does the Board of Education say?
MONSIGNOR ISAAC P. WHELAN.
To the Editor Of the Star:
The controversy as to the propriety
of Professor Matthew'S in prasidfpo oxrar