Labor Temple." they went on to formal, though yet timid and cautious, accusations: "During the week Ferrer was seen several times in the streets, and once I saw him captaining a group in front of the Lyceum."25 So speaks Senor Colldefrons, the special correspondent of another clerical newspaper of Madrid. However, the Spanish Government was showing itelf too slow and slug- gish in its repression to suit the fervent Catholics of Cata- lonia. They decided to wake it up and for that purpose the "Comite de Defensa Social," already mentioned in this ar- ticle, sent two representativcs to Madrid to see Premier Maura. One of these,28 in an interview with a reporter of the "Universo," another clerical paper in Madrid, de- clared: "Ferrer, the most nefarious Ferrer, did not spend in vain in Barcelona the week preceding, and the first days of the impious revolution; when he opens his mouth he opens the hand, and the purse of international Free masonry and Anarchism; the books of the Modern School had to produce their deleterious fruits and they produced •them." Note that so far not a word has yet been said about Ferrer being the leader of the insurrection. No, the clerieal papers still accuse Lerroux and give Ferrer only a secondary role, that of mere participator in the trouble. It is also curious to note how these clerical papers lay all the blame of the insurrection, which as we have seen was 8 purely economic consequence of the war, on the spirit of irreligion. They do this, says the author, in accordance with the simplicist theory of the Catholics who, without taking any áccount of the complicated structure of human societies, without giving any heed to the economic, political and eul- From these hypocritical insinuations
- From "giglo Futuro," March
- 1910. This testimonial of an actual eye-witness (7) ts impor- tant, as will be seen later on.
- The Count of Santa Marla de
Pomes.
