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Show FERRER DEMONSTRATIONS Bitter Hatred Manifested Truth Is Ignored. Ig-nored. (Communicated.) Last Sunday evening Unity hall was the scene of a remarkable demonstration of protest against the execution of Francisco Ferrer by the Spanish government. It was prodigious for various reasons, rea-sons, among which were the glaring inconsistences so lucidly detectable, and the venomous hatred of all things and people Roman Catholic, in the utterances ut-terances of. the speakers. The most astonishing event of the evening was the presence of a prominent Salt Lake City minister, min-ister, wearing the cloth of Christ, whereby he gains his; livelihood, participating in a meeting whose ostensible object was the laudation of a Spanish philosopher who hated the murdered Savior of the wrorld, and was an anti-Christ in every sense and meaning of that-title of infamy. .Rev. Elmer I. Goshen should bow his head in shame before the cross of that Celestial King he professes to serve with his lips, but with his heart betrays. During the course of his speech he made this statement: "It matters not whether Ferrer was guilty or innocent. in-nocent. The fact is, he was not given a trial and he was found guilty and killed for nothing in the world but fighting to raise the oppression from the people whom he loved." This effusion of the "reverend" gentleman is about as similar to the truth as a Darwinian elephant, which developed from a frog, is to its original froggy condition. Senor Ferrer was tried by court-martial, and the worst that can be said about his death is that it was the product of European militarism unrestrained unre-strained by constitutional limitations. According to the latest advices emanating from Spain through authentic channels, reliable details are now available as to the whole proceedings connected con-nected with the last movements, trial and death of Ferrer. When the Spanish agitator saw that the uprising which had been instigated by his exhortations, exhorta-tions, and which had for its object wholesale murder, mur-der, was a failure, he disappeared. While seeking to make his escape from the country, he was halted on a rural roadway by a squad of a town guard, who stopped him merely as a suspicious character, not being aware of his identity, as he had shaved off his beard. He had with him a kodak and an . umbrella, and . lift answrered . the interrogations of1 the officer in charge by asserting he was a member of the Esperanto congress soon to convene in Barcelona. Dissatisfied With his conflicting statements, he was taken into custody by the guard and his real personality person-ality immediately established. During a subsequent sub-sequent examination he nositivelv declined to re veal anything of his former whereabouts. On Saturday Sat-urday morning, . Oct. 9, the military court, consisting consist-ing of a colonel and six captains, convened in the presence of 200 reporters and a crowd of the general gen-eral public that completely filled the trial chamber cham-ber of the Barcelona city prison. . The military jurisdiction and power of the. court being publicly pub-licly attested, President Lacalle summoned Ferrer; he entered quickly from an outside chamber and seated himself at a table. He was not shackled in any manner. The government's case against the accused was then read. Everything concerning the espionage maintained upon his movements was retold, including the searching of his house, the depositions of witnesses, the answers of the unfortunate unfor-tunate prisoner to their testimony, and his affirmations affirma-tions when confronted by the same deposing witnesses. wit-nesses. 'During the period of twenty-eight days granted by the military code for presenting favorable favor-able testimonyin the prisoners, behalf, not one of his boastful disciples, equals or friends was brave enough to come to his assistance in his hour of need, and the. truck are all alike in any country, except in holding useless and loud-sounding meetings meet-ings of protest in warm, comfortable, well-lighted halls. A captain of engineers, however, Don Francisco Fran-cisco Galceran, was appointed his counsel, and had eight days to prepare the case for trial. During the reading of the crimes charged, the prisoner paid the closest attention, now moving his head in denial, de-nial, now smiling, ironically, but outwardly preserving preserv-ing a calm demeanor. Over a dozen witnesses testified. tes-tified. The evidence adduced, clearly proved, what even Ferrer's followers do not deny, that he had endeavored to stir up bands of men in the suburbs sub-urbs to join the rioters, murder the governing officials, of-ficials, and bum the churches and convents to the. ground. The incriminating papers found in his ' home formed the chief basis of the prosecutor's address ad-dress which was devoid of passion and was verv temperate in enunciation. Counsel for the prisoner prison-er then made a thrilling and masterly plea for his client's acquittal. The head of the court then said, in effect : . Francisco Ferrer, you a citizen of Spain owing allegiance to your' country and its laws, whether unjust or not, and if unjust should be righted by civil means, have, with full consent of your will stirred up brother to kill brother, the Spanish son to slay his Spanish father,; instigated your weaker-minded fellows to put . the torch to the habitations of weak, inoffensive women wearing the garb of Christianity; and the helpless orphans under their motherly protection ; . have sought by every unlawful means in your power to subvert law and government, which are for the protection of all society from sinking into a condition of absolute abso-lute anarchy, making civilization a. den of : beasts tearing one another to pieces, without reason, without with-out hope, without sense. --What have you to say in your behalf ?"' ' ".. .;'., ":. j Ferrer's answer in hesitating, uncertain' tones, produced a disagreeable impression on all present in the court room: The trial was then declared finished fin-ished and the public departed in. an orderly manner, man-ner, without making any demonstration. .Just before be-fore the condemned man was shot, he asked to have the bindings removed from his eyes, but the general in charge told him "a traitor did not deserve to look his fellow countrymen in the face," and so he fell, a victim, even as an opponent of all government' of unwise and uncunning zeal in the cause he es poused. He belonged to that type of anarchistic philosophy which declares that any man who dons a police uniform is a foe of his brothers and ought to be slain. He hated all government, all authority, author-ity, all forms of Christianity. The modern schools he. sought to inaugurate were to ignore the teaching teach-ing of all knowledge of the Savior and the moral law, aud , if they could be planted numerously throughout any nation, would, like rotten trees, bear rotten fruit, and deform the pure, innocent minds of little children into lustful, disobedient, degenerate adults. Governments may be defective in human equity; individual rulers may be and often are tyrannical; a human being of weak, miry clay professing to serve Christ may be sinful no matter what his office in life; courts and military tribunals may .sometimes outrage the sentiment of justice planted by the Heavenly Father in the great heart of humanity, but to charge all this to Christianity or the Roman Catholic church manifests mani-fests in the doers thereof the most repulsive, crassest crass-est brand of prejudicial ignorance and serpentine malice that' any civilization, ancient or modern, ever knew or heard of. These human defects and blemishes on humanity exist because of the composition com-position of the flesh of humanity; they exist in spite of God, Christ, the Holy Ghost, heaven and earth and the Church of Rome. The bitter fact is this, which should burn in the intellects of all men: that the world would be a million times worse in injustice and tyranny without true and vital Christianity as typified by the Holy Apostolic, Catholic Divine Church of Rome, whose commandments com-mandments and sacraments are absolutely pure, seraphic, wonderfully and incomprehensibly beautiful, beau-tiful, awe-inspiring, reverent, God-glorifying and adoring, sublime and magnificent, more marvelous than the voiceless stars, transcending in greatness the drops of water that make the seas, the pillars that support the world, the lofty mountains of eternal snows; the majestic sweep of the tides so obedient to their Creator, and which if obeyed and followed will transform the weakest sinner into a saint. The death of Ferrer is nothing compared to the onward sweep of tbe universe. We all must die as millions before us have. Little children die worse deaths by accident " and sickness than Francisco Ferrer did. God cares nothing for the manner of death, no matter how dreadful, because the indestructible inde-structible soul is in His powreful, sacred hands, for all eternity. But to let all this pass and revert to the glaring, glar-ing, ignorant and bitterly envenomed, inconsistent assertions made at this Ferrer meeting. Tn the first place, Martin Luther, was nauseatingly glorified glori-fied and the Roman Church condemned for possessing possess-ing the same convictions. The Catholic Church and her virile, self-sacrificing priesthood were flayed alive by Messrs. King, Brown, Dalton, Goshen Go-shen et al., because of the principle they fight for, viz., religious schools with religious teachers of Christian tenets. Martin Luther was lauded to the skies as one of the greatest heroes that ever lived. yet he laid down and struggled for the identical school system that Ferrer and the orators of the Unity hall meeting detest akin to the awful, blasphemous, blas-phemous, raging, but impotent hate, Satan has for Christ! The National Lutheran Church of Germany, Ger-many, the beloved first-born of Luther's individual conception of what should be, and the only simon-pure, simon-pure, bona fide Protestant church under the bright dome of heaven, has her parochial schools teaching religion. And that the religion of one human being's be-ing's origination! Then, again, the universally well known fact that the Church of Rome is politically polit-ically helpless in Europe was completely ignored. Every one not blinded by prejudice knows that even in strong Catholic countries such as France. Italy and Spain, the ruling classes detest the Church of Rome as much as Ferrer, Mr. Thurston Brown or any other government-destroying, nun-burning, or-pb or-pb evicting anarchists do. Even the Bishop of Barcelona's act of interceding for clemency for Ferrer went unmentioned. , France is a Catholic country. Would any one man say her politicians and statesmen were Catholics or loved the Church of Rome? And yet if Ferrer had done in France, England or America what he did in Spain, viz.. stir up men to the use of .the torch, to murder and "overturn "over-turn his own government, he would have been put to death. It is known all over Spain that the man who attempted to kill King Alphonso on his wedding wed-ding day was the secretary and chief follower of Francisco Ferrer! Again. Great stress was placed on the allegations that the Church of Rome was a persecuting church, and Spain, one nation out of all the Roman Catholic countries of the period of the Inquisition was selected to prove it, but you could not hear a whisper concerning the torturing-the torturing-the hunting like wild beasts; the beheading- the burning; the starving and the betraying into penal servitude of the virtuous men and women of Erin by Protestant,, Puritanical England for four hundred hun-dred years! All the Browns, the Kings, the Daltons and the Goshens of the whole world cannot change the truth into a he or weaken the power of God one whit. The Catholic Church is not to blame for the ills of humanity and the political murders or executions execu-tions carried out by governments of the earth It would be just as sensible to ascribe the death's of the Haymarket noters to the Church of Rome in America as it is in the case of Francisco Ferrer Slanderers may stand forages hurling their lies to heaven; councils may come and go, kings live reign and die; republics may go down in anarchy and ruin; fearful earthquakes shake the cities of the world from their foundation; leading followers of Christ desert and fight under the banner of the king of fields hell send forth-like gigantic waves its frightful blasphemies to the wonuVous home of God, but these truths will live forever and be vindicated vin-dicated beyond the veil of. the tomb: that' Christ Jesus was and is God Almighty Himself, that He died to redeem mankind from a lake of fire; that he founded the Roman Catholic Church- that she has existed since the death of the Messiah, and that ;she will continue to exist on the indestructible rock . of Peters authority, against which the gates of hell can never prevail, and that she will remain in the world until the stars are falling from on high like figs shaken from the fig tree by the whirlwind and. the heavens are on fire, and the elements of the universe are melting away in the devouring flames of the last hour. . 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