lacking experience, ignore that time discovers in the end all things, even the most hidden, and their ignorance they show by the innocent tricks with which they pretend to cover their misdeeds. But the members of the Cabinet were all adults, mature men some of them; it is incomprehensible how they did not see that the accusation of a recognized leader of a popular rebellion, upon which was based the sentence of the director of the Modern School, could not resist the free atmosphere of criticism as soon as the true authors and actors of the sedition would speak; and that the opinion of the whole world to-day, of history to-morrow, would necessarily execrate the hasty sentence decreed by patently ignoring the facts, in a moment of confusion of spirit, and under the oppression of governmental terror. How blind is he who cannot see through a sieve."
- December, 1910.
