The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-10-30
BLAME FOR CRIME IS
CHARGED TO FERRER
A Well Known Writer Says
That the Execution of the
Spanish Socialist is Amply
Justified---Was lnstigator
of the Barcelona Riots in
Which Many Lives Were
Lost and Much Property
Destroyed by Anarchists.

/
Destroyed by Anarchists.
| "a we'll informed nom Catholic writer,
whose pen name is "Ex-Attache," !"
writes as follows to the Chicago Sur
day Tribune on the execution of Fer
rer, the Spanish socialist, for insti-
ating the recent riots at Barcelona:
Popular interest just at present is
directed towards Spain, which has
suddenly become the storm center IF
Europe. The anarchist riots at Ba--
celona, when millions of dollars worth
of property was destroyed, priceless
treasures Of art and history reduced
to ashes, and incredible acts of saw
agery perpetrated Gncluding the ex-
humation of the remains of sisters
of charity from their collins, and the
parading of portions thereof at the
left foreign capitals Indifferent. But
the execution of the ringleader and
instigator of all these outrages, after
fair trial, has led to popular dis
turbances all over Europe and to ex-
pressions of disapproval from people
who would have been the first to clam
or for the death of Ferrer had the
crimes for which he was responsible
been perpetrated in their own coun-
tries and ift.@their native cities-4=
I Had the atrocities of which the an
archists rendered themselves guilty
some weeks ago at Barcelona been
committed in New York, Boston, Chi.
cago, st. Louis or any of the Other
great centers of industry, commerce.
and finance of the United States
there would have been but one voice
invoking extreme penalties of the law
against these sworn foes of order, re-
ligion, property; indeed of our entire
system of civilization. But just be.
cause these scenes have taken place
in Barcelona--the Liverpool of Spain
the headquarters of the commerce and
industry of country that is honestly
endeavoring to recover some of hel
ancient prosperity, and her place ir
the front rank of nations-people here
not only manifest Indifference to h.:
sufferings, but even waste sympathy OF
the one man at whose door must be
laid the blame for all the loss of lif.
and destruction of property, and harm
to the trade of Barcelona.
This strange and inconsequent at.
titude on the part of so many Aneri.
can citizens and newspapers is at.
tributable to failure to understand
the real facts of the case. Anarchists
may be divided into two classes name.
ly, the instigators and the instigatei
The latter are people either devoi(
of education or else of mental bal.
last; people whose jealousy of wealth
arising from their own poverty, ha.
been famed into an almost insan,
sense of wrong by their leaders; peo.
pie, in one word of the type Of tn,
murderers Of President Mckinley, =
the French President Carnot, an.
the empress of Austria.
Ferrer, if not directly, was at an,
) rate indirectly responsible for the at
tempt made by Morales to blow tn,
! young king and queen of Spain int
eternity on their wedding day; an at
, tempt which, while it failed in 81
far as its object was concerned, re
! suited in loss of life and terrible in
jury to number of poor people, t,
taken exception. For Morales had no
only been one Of the teachers EN-
| ployed. by Ferrer. but also had live,
for a considerable time under hi
roof; was. indeed, thoroughly Undue,
, with the doctrines of his master, an
aroused to a condition Of fanatic en-
thusiasm about the subject.
: Moreover, just before the outrage a
Madrid he had visited Barcelona, an
!, spent night with Ferrer at the lat
! ter's house. Ferrer was placed on tri
= al, along with Nakens, who had har
t bored Morales after the crime and ha
3 furnished him with the means Of es
8 cape. But while the civil courts con
1 victed Nakens of aiding and abettin
the escape of criminal and sen
: fenced him to long term Of impris
9 onment, they could not find the evi
Idence necessary in civil law to sho,