The Greeley tribune., 1910-02-03
EXPLANATORY LETTER
FROM FATHER CASEY

daily press and l have always felt
proud in being able to point to 1t
as a fine model of high journalism.
Therefore. when l read your arti-
Gle entitled Friend of Martyr Fer
rer" etc, l realized Immediately that
your paper had been imposed upon.
1t is nothing new for the fanatic to
attribute strange teachings to the
distinguished and learned order of
the Society of Jesus. but l believe
the Brother Juan Modestus" of last
nights article outdone all previous
efforts In that direction.
First of all, permit me to state
that the above mentioned Brother
Juan Modestus" is an impostor. Aft
er reading your paper l telephoned
the president of the Jesuit College
at Denver and asked him II such a
person could have been here with
out their knowledge and he assured
me that the man is known to be
fraud.
Now permit me to say few words
as to the truth OF the statements OF
the supposed Jesuit brother. l
thought by this time that all were
aware of the facts concerning Fer
rer.
Who, then, was Ferrer? He was
a rebel, a revolutionist, caught red
handed raising the standard OF re-
volt at Barcelona and elsewhere,
was tried by court-martial, convicted
as a rebel, and shot. These facts
we're established at his trial by over
whelming evidence. In Spain itself
which had not yielded itself up to
hysterical displays over this miser-
able man, these facts were not dis
puted. Even the Liberal Premier,
Senior Moret, in his speech in the
t Cortes, disclaimed all sympathy for
Ferrer. He only blamed his prede-
cessor, Senior Maura, for having pro-
I longed the trial. He (MoreO would
. have inflicted summary punishment
q upon him.
e Ferrer was an atheist, professed
: anarchist and teacher of anarchism
His lay schools were hotbeds OF an
d archism and immortality. Morales
y who made the dastardly attempt to
s murder the King and the Queen on
their wedding day, was an associate
# Of Ferrer. Ferrer was also man
8 of bad character: an unfaithful hus-
e band, an unnatural father who for
y sock his children and disowned them.
,r Not even his friends contended that
1t he was a good man, as did the sup
r posed Jesuit brother of last night
ct for he turned his wife and three
children out of doors, left his for
le tune to his mistress, who is younger
is than his eldest daughter, and OBJ
at tanned the very money to found Las
r. Escuelas Modernas" by fraud in pre-
of (tending to his benefactress that they
on were to be Catholic schools and that
lr- the Catholic faith was to be taught
ar in them.
1t has been said in this country
of by the order of the Spanish auto
n cratic government and at the behest
ul of the church authorities, and that
1T, such thing could not happen in
at the United States. Well, we had
"a the Haymarket riots in Chicago in
Ks 1SS6-the analogue, except in i'm
of mensity, of Barcelona-and seven
persons were executed. Chicago has
had peace ever since, and Barcelon-
ese think they, too, will have things
M, quiet for a time. 1t has been said
too. that Ferrer's trial was secret
NC and that he was railroaded to execu-
he ton.
,le Neither fact is correct, for several
~ of the illustrated papers tand there
If are many in Spain, finely printed
too sold in Barcelona at the time
,g. of his trial gave Il large double-pagt
~ illustration of his trial, at which
le, could easily be seen that there were
H. from one hundred to one hundred
IL and fifty present in the large cour
ol- room, among them several newspap
g.: er men, The photographer wa:
th there on at least two occasions.
at Not to take up too much of YOU
en- valuable space. let me quote you jus
be a few of the so-called martyrs teach
We ings. use his own words. "Aboli
lis ton of all existing laws; expulsion
as or determination Of religious com
ay munities: dissolution of the civil au
n thorities army and navy; demoll
is ton of the churches; confiscation o
he the Bank of Spain and of the prop
). erty of such persons civil or mill
MS tary, who held Office in Spain or it
it. lost colonies"
Annexed hereto is recipe 10
ii- manufacturing dynamite. Do not for
se. get that Spanish blood runs in you
h, veins. Viva la revolucion! Viva l;
le- dynamita!'
ee Is there country in the civilized
lo' world that would have treated sucf
al a one when he was caught red-hand
ed putting his horrible theories int
bloody practice. in any different man
ner? OF course there is not NJ
~ country having any kind of govern
ie nv ment would permit such man to g
= unpunished within it's jurisdiction