producing something, and I wondered if the martyr was really rich. The house
was ..... heard ofthe outrage in the Rue des Bons-Enfants by the ...... Pierre
Ramus.
PubUthtd by
FRANCISCO FERRER ASSOCIATION.
241 Fifth Avenu.,
New
York.
CONTENTS Portrait of Ferrer Ferrer ( Poem ) By .
Herman
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Scheff auer
Song of Solidarity. By Bayard Boyesen. Fbrrer As His Friends Saw Hm. By Renato Rugieres Ferrer's Early Life. From the French Ferrer and Mademoiselle Meunier. From the French. Some Sidelights on Ferrer's Personality. By William Heaford The Best Books on Ferrer
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The Social Struggle in Spain. By Hippolyte Havel The History OF the Modern Schools. By William Heaford Elisee Reclus's "Man and the Earth" Ferrer's
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Ferrer's Last Letters from Prison The Significance of Ferrer's Death. By' Emma Goidm"an" 1 HE Immortality of Ferrer. By W. M. Van der Weyde Tributes OF Eminent Men: Ernst Haeckel,
Maxim
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Tribute to Ferrer. By G. H. B. Ward Lester F. Ward on Spain and Ferrer [[ The Slain Prophet. By Thaddeus B. Wakeman! H. Percy Ward's Tribute
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Messages that Ferrer Wrote on the Ferrer and the Two Orphan Boys In Commemoration of Ferrer
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Gorky.
HavelockElhs Edward Carpenter, Jack London, Upton Smclair, Hutchins Hapgood The Children without a Teacher. By Jaime Vidal
Pmson Wall .
School in America of the American Ferrer Association"
The Organization
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Twelve Hours of Agony— How Ferrer dIed!
A Modern
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The Aftermath
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To Francisco Ferrer (Poem).
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celebrate zvas a pioneer
and
idealist.
vision pierced so far that only a feiv understood.
others killed hiui, on false charges.
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all
national boundaries.
symbol of martyrdom. Christ, Savonarola,
He
The
in his death
he has become more powerful than during his transcends
His
His name
life.
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takes his place with Socrates,
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FRANCISCO FERRER The Twentieth Century Martyr
:
FRANCISCO FERRER His Published on the
first
Life,
Work and Martyrdom
anniversary of his death by the Francisco Ferrer Association 241 Fifth
Edited by
Avenue,
New York
Leonard
D.
Abbott
FRANCISCO FERRER
was born at Alella, near His parents, well-to-do farmers, were devoted Catholics, but he, as soon as he began to think for himself, became a Freethinker. In 1879 he proclaimed himself a Republican. He took part in an abortive revolution led by General Villacampa, was compelled to flee to Paris, and there became secretary to the Spanish Republican leader, Ruiz Zorrilla. While in Paris, Ferrer supported himself by giving lessons in Spanish. A lady by the name of Mile. Meunier became his pupil and his confidante. He told her of a hope he had conceived of a new Spain freed from the stifling grip of Roman Catholicism, and regenerated by education and progressive ideals. She sympathized with his vision, and when she died left him a large bequest. Ferrer returned to Spain, and in 1901 started the first of his Modern Schools. He used as text-books some of the greatest radical and scientific works of the day, by Kropotkin, by Elisee Reclus, and others. From the first the Roman Catholics were bitterly hosThey looked for an excuse tile to the Modern Schools. to suppress them, and in 1906 their opportunity came. Mateo Morral, who had been connected with the Barcelona, in 1859.
threw a bomb at the King and Queen of Spain. Ferrer was charged with complicity in the act, and held in prison for a whole year. But nothing could be proved against him. The second opportunity of the clericals came in July, 1909, when an uprising inspired by indignation against an unjust war in Morocco took place in Barcelona. Ferrer was arrested again, this time on the charge of having been the head and chief of the Barcelona uprising. The second charge was as false as the first one. Nevertheless, he was condemned to death by a courtmartial, and was shot at Montjuich fortress on October
schools,
13.
His
last
words were
"Long Live the Modern School!"
Francisco Ferrer,
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For every
ruler broken million men shall live.
A
One Bourbon
heart bereaving,
Crushed out the black Pope's ban,
And
lo,
To
a world's heart heaving general heart of man!
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