The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-09
ORPHANS FROM FLAMES

CLEVELAND. o, Nov. 7,-Twelve
brave nuns at 81. Ninc"nts orphan asy.
lum, organizing a bucket brigade, put out
fire in the top of the building TO-
night.
The older boys In the asylum which
housed four hundred lisilc ones. were the
first 20 learn that there was danger The
sisters, passing buckets of water up The
stairs and pouring 1t on tho blaze, sent
the biggest boys TO oversee the little
ones sat at their studies Those who at
tempted TO rush out were ordered back
and when help arrived from tho OUTSIDE
The children, some of them sun Gnc9n-
scious Of the peril. were at their books.
while the nuns almost dropping from
fatigue held the nrc under control
There were fourhundrcd helpless
children housed, washed and fed by
the Catholic church, and in every city
within the limits Of the United States,
the same church is feeding, clothing
and teaching these abandoned, or
ing. all told, 10000 little ones,
Why. right within reach of Your
shout Of condemns the foot of
the Waterloo traction line--therc is a
monument of charity built by Cath
olc gentleman and his Catholic wife,
sheltering onc-hundred and seventy
homeless children of all religions and
of no religion. These iIttie ones are are
supported by the charity Of the Catholic
church, and among them may be some
whose heartless fathers applauded Dal-
ton s attack on that church.
The Rev. Elmer Goshen, carried away
by his enthusiasm and an entire absence
OF respect for the cloth he wears.
HeuIopizcd the life and work of Fer"
rer.' What does this reverend gentle.
man know Of the life and work of
Francisco Fcrrcr Of Guardia? Until
now, we venture to say. he didn t know
tho anarchist g full name
Now listen to the New York Sun:
Ferrer must have realiZsd that he was
but paying a penalty for which he had
bargained. He had openly melted the
disturbances at Barcelona. Such disturb
ances are not put down with rose water
The appeal 10 the kings gen.
! croslty was absurd. The injury mad been
done TO IN. state, not 10 him. as It's head
but as it's head, 1t was his duty 10 kecI
his hands off.
And TO the ST. Louis Western Watch
man:
When Fe.yer came 10 die q great
change came over the spirit OF his dreams
lie was brave when at the head OF tho
IA bible he burned churches and murdered
priests and nuns In the streets OF BARGE
Iona. But when the soldiers stood before
him TO execute the sentence of deatl
passed upon him by the court martial. h,
thought OF his family and Wcpt like {
child. He did not even spurn the priests
who prayed at his side. His friends. IL
appealed to the pope 10 intercede with the
king To commute his sentence. An an
archist asking aid OF the head OF th'
church, whose destruction he had made
the one object OF his life. An anarchis
weeping over his children while hundred
. OF other children orphaned by his ac
mourncd the loss Of parents and home
And again TO the Boston Herald:
| Ferrcr was sowing the seed Of rcvolu
ton. Whether or not he purposcd L
develop plant which, under careful cul
tlYation and much restraint, would be az
ideal OF beauty and might develop
useful fruit. the fact is that from this see'
Il rank poisonous plant grew up owe
which he he'd no control and whicl
worked evil In society and state, Fcrre
may not have been responsible FOR al
the pcrverslon of his teachings. But n
9 was responsible for the seed And soci
: ety. In sclf-dcfcnsc. always maintaine,
its rights to deny individual privilege ant
GurO Individual rights, even though tn
I prohibited acts had no original conception
! of wrong or evil results. The state mus
l protect itself and il must judge men an
Ndeeds 10y their fruits.
f And IN the Boston Pilot:
Why * 1t that in every America
newspaper tho church is being draSEc
into the question? IL Is we'll known, an
has been reported the world over, tina
tho authorities OF the church were th
first to petition for clcmency towards Fer
rcr, VIC have yet to learn the whol
S proceedings. Why this deliberate falsih
!. cation Of tho truth? Why is II Copie
D from paper TO paper without a qucstlo
being asked or answered: That the an