The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-10
-.rn1.s ORDERS IN SPAIN.

hr'- - inst published by the Ac-
,,.ial Popular Of Vanadolid con-
don offfsial figures which prove how
tuF are the services rendered to
'aIu'' -he religious orders whom
spain ocrrnent is prosecuting. Mem
;ie EV Tho orders. male and female,
be's u u education to 1885 chill
gre all classes. whilst in the free
dreh o,is there are only 5.S21 pupils.
Jay So orders take care of the sick
Rehs,t.aenitaIs. In all cases in which
n So is made to them remunera-
%! .lieht. In III hospitals they
tH ,ritbout being remunerated at
ser Tho Little sisters of the Poor and
al" mo come 10 the aid of aged
amt of work support S,66S old
JON There are 1903 nuns who de-
.Qe'I themselves to attending the sick
YOU, oir own aomes. In reducing the
90 . fo,. III religious the government is
la.-..r,ra striking a blow at the poor
IH' offering Monks and nuns who
~ -;foe their own comfort in order
Tho children Of the humblest
'l". NAV receive their education
thai the patients in the hospitals
h. well cared for. and that
,ior51y hand may be extended to toll
,.bo are III or unable 10 make
,...ro owing to advanced years, are
he east forth. Benefactors of the
.rfr,. are not to he tolerated. but
..a immoral may enjoy perfect free
Ann The total number Of nuns in
S,oin-Tadies who are continually do
a.. oood-is 41.526. and in Madrid
Lane there are $4,000 fallen women,
The Valladolid publication to which
r. have referred points to what has
aiken place in France as warning
Inc people If Spain When the
rrspch government was about TO ex-
nj the religious they promised that
.be working men would get pensions
T., the extent Of a hundred million
francs out of the plumber of the or
ders. Instead the country has had the
ensrtacIe NJ the liquidation scandals.
Official liluidators have squandered
the proceeds Of the sale of the monas-
cries. bishops houses and presbyteries
mon their own debasing pleasures. Tn
IA January. 1907. the total resulting
from the sales was 80. 900. OO0 francs
But only 100000 francs went into
the treasury. The properties We're. in
many cases sold for a song to friends
nf the liauidators. and Of the $1,000
OOO francs no less than eighteen mill
Hons vanished, being squandered or
stolen Cor investment. Thus money
which really belonged to the poor for
It was on their behalf the properties
we're held by the religious. was con-
prted to their own uses by unscrupu-
lous agents of the government. and the
authorities took no decisive measures
either to prevent the frauds or to pun
sh the criminals. Then it was said
education in France would be i'm
proved when monks and nuns would
no longer have charge of schools. But
the schools, on the contrary. have been
turning out a large and increasing per-
ceBtsse OF young criminals since the
monks and nuns were forced to leave.
In 1905 The mum Der of crimes com
mitted by young folk in France was
3iS04. abolt a thousand more than
the number four years previously. As
uredly Spain, in which there is but
one male religious to every 1853 per-
sons and one nun TO every 4S1. may
we'll be or its guard against initiating
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