Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-09-11
Mr.. MORA'S
TELLS STORY
OF UPRISING
Noted Artist Home from His
Trip to SPAIN Declares
Conditions Exaggerated.
ARRIVED AFTER THE
BARCELONA TROUBLE
Painter and Wife Return
With a Number of Pictures
been Abroad a Year.

In the best of health and showing
no sign of having been in close pTox-
unity to any riots in Barcelona, Mr..
and Mrs. Luis F. Mora arrived in
this city about o'clock last night.
Mr.. Mora is an eminent artist, whose
travels in Europe during the past
year with his wife have been with
view of obtaining material for pic
tures. He brought back a number
of pictures with him.
AS Mr. and Mrs Mora had been
close to- Barcelona, the scene of up
risings during anarehistic move
ments in Spain, it was believed by
friends and relatives here that they
might have encountered narrow es-
capes That was not the case, how
ever, but they did journey to BARGE
Iona about six days after the diff
Guilty had subsided. Having seen
flashing newspaper articles of the
great turmoil, causing murder and
destruction of property, they natur-
ally expected to find the city in a
downtrodden state. AS they enter
ed the city they gazed from side to
side in anticipation of seeing the
city partially or wholly in ruins.
Their surprise was great when Bar
celona was found to be the same
beautiful, agreeable and picturesque
place as before. Business was pro-
crossing as though nothing had oc-
Cured.
One instance Mr. Mora saw of pre-
vious agitation was in the hotel he
stopped at. The proprietor pointed
to the walls exhibiting bullet holes.
In other places were found openings
made with large guns.
Mr.. Mora is familiar with condi-
tions in Spain perhaps more than
most other travellers. He brands
most newspaper accounts and other
journalistic descriptions of the rev.
olution. as widely exaggerated re-
ports of what actually occurred. He
says the movement did result in de-
struction by fire of number of
converts and the intense uprising
did compel priests to wear regular
citizens attire for personal protec-
ton, but he denies such reports as
blood flowing in the cutters Of the
streets, human heads being speared
or human beings being strung from
treetops.
know, regards the whole affair as an
anarchistic movement. The work
was little short of vandalism pure
and simple He asserts that the i'm
preston gained by the outside world
that the uprising was led by the
laboring classes against the govern
ment is a misunderstanding. The
work appeared to be that of anar-
chists and ii seemed to pop up all of
sudden. The difficulty arose from
the trouble in Morocco, when Span
iards were called to arms. These
consisted of the laboring men. They
approached their employers and told
them that they were banding to-
gether to halt the action of the gov
ernment in calling them out That
action gave the world to believe,
says Mr. Mora, that the laboring
classes led the revolution. 1t was
not the case for, when real fighting
began, the laboring men withdrew
and there came sudden uprising
of anarehism that seemed uncheck-
able until the state troops were call
ed out.
When Mr.. and Mrs Mora entered
the city there were troopers to be
seen in long lines. But all trouble
had been quelled and there was no
fighting and little to denote that a
small revolution had occurred.
In Mr.. Mora's boyhood days his
father had often told him of revolts
in Barcelona In those days the ac-
tion of firing occurred entirely be-
tween the hours of 8 o'clock in the
morning and o o'clock in the after
noon. Notices were posted by mu-
nicipal auth critics that people going
upon the streets between those
hours did so at their own risk. The
same methods prevailed in a meas
ure during the latest revolt, says Mr.
Mora.
Barcelona is the second largest
city of Spain. 1t is the capital of
the military department of Catalonia
and it is regarded as the centre of
most of the anarchist movements in
Spain. 1t is half moon shaped and
lies on the coast of the Mediterrane-
an. 1t has many interesting features
and highly picturesque surroundings
and has been the scene of many san
culinary revolts. principally during
the years of 1882, 1885, 1S40 and
1841.
Mr.. Mora was interviewed at the
home of Mrs Emma Compton in
Water street, where he and Mrs
Mora are staying. Mrs. Mora is a
daughter of Mrs. Compton.