The Nome daily nugget., 1910-12-03
THE ANTI CHRISTIAN LIAR AGAIN
By ]. Forhan. s. J.

state of puzzled bamboozlement. For instance. if you ask why the state church of Spain must bc considered "a monster landholding commercial and industrial organization" you are re- ferred forthwith to Charles r Stewart the stam correspondent of the United Press Association. That resourcor,l worthy manages to keep a straight face on him. while assuring YOU that half the cardinals condemn the pope: but when questioned about proofs as to how the industrial equilibrium of a Wh"I" Kingdom can be upset bv the lawful activity of few thousand monks. Charles remains as mtue as an oyster Further inquiries about the business establishments. which Spanisb friars conduct con an enormous scale" factories. laundrics. in fact every thing from a brewery to a funk shor provoke a certain C. F. McDonald to Indulge in a bit of scrio comic advice in view of curhing monastic greed hv rcrrcssive taxation Your curiosity he 'mG whetted by what it foods on nat urally seeks to obtain some facts as to how monks. in tho land of Don Quixote can be grasping to the extent of becoming Immensely rich" and is gratified by the information that. any how. Alfonso executed Ferrer without rhyme or reason. You are thereby in Nited to start off on new track.
 Francisco Ferror was one of the most unutterable rogucs that ever died inc death of fclon-Just such a specimen Of unmitigated impietv as socialism would naturally choose to champion His wife. the miscreant shook off un tremendously and divorced. leaving her to shift for herself with her three CfilGren. These last ho disinherited at Monrjuch just previous to his execu- tion. His entire fortune-e enormously increased by donations from a pious old French lady named Meunier who wish ed him to found asylums for children a. Barcelona-was left to his mistress. s'o,edad Villafranca. Tn her particular line Soledad had probably never done n better stroke of business. With part cf the cash procured from Miss Meu- nier. Ferrer founded instituytions which. after the death of his benefac- tress. he changed into a system of schools called "La Escuela Moderna." Ih those delectable establishments. certain Madame JacQuinet-a self-con- fessed atheist and religious scien- tifc materialist. t."-taught the young idea how to shoot. The text books this precious dame made use of. were. in large part of her own composition. quite up-to-date. and highly progres sive. Don't get excited for the sake of the flag" she exhorts in her Third Reader. "it is nothing but three yards of cloth stuck on a pole" Marriage" she continues. marriage is prosttu- tion." as if that really made any diff ference to MaMdame Jacquinet.- prostitution sanctioned by the church and protected by the state. The fam fly is one of the principal obstacles to the enlightenment of mem" Her views about religious creeds are quite en- livening. Religion she says. "has re- tarded the evolution of man. has pro longed his primitive weakness. has made him retrograde to his primitive deemers cruciiixion We desire to ob- serve here" she writes, that the only act of justice accomplished by this God. was 10 get himself killed as the author of all the evils which men sur- fer." At the bare thought of Christ. this redevilled creature seems 10 foam at the mouth like the enregumens of old A precious team. the pair of them, she and Ferrer,
 Curiously La Escuela Moderna" was allowed to function unmolested in Bar celona and elsewhere for eight years. Freedom of speech and of the press, it appears. is thoroughly guaranteed by the Spanish constitution. But when Ferrer. Moral and others of their tribe passed actively from an exposition of their peculiar theories to revolution. arson and murder. there the authorities drew the line. In 1886. after the Hay market riots. Chicago drew the line in exactly the same manner. Six ChieagI anarchists were condemned to death In both Chicago and Barcelona. the authorities applied strictly the decrees of the statute book. According to the penal law of New York stae, Ferrer, had he been an American citizen, would have forfeited his life. Because who soever counsels. commands or induces another to commit crime is "a prin- eipal" (Sec. 2l Fifteen witnesses prov cd Ferrer to be a" principal" Sections