36 ANDREW J. SHIPMAN MEMORIAL 



school-bcx)ks embodying these ideas, but the Ferrer schools 

 were the very antithesis of what we teach in our pubUc 

 schools in the United States. Take merely the extracts from 

 his Third Reader, known by the title of "Patriotism and Col- 

 onization," where the children are taught such gems as these : 

 "Don't get excited for the sake of the flag ! It is nothing but 

 three yards of cloth stuck on a pole!" "The words 'country,' 

 'flag,' and 'family,' are no more than hypocritical echoes of 

 wind and sound." "Industry and commerce are names by 

 which merchants cover up their robberies." "Marriage is 

 prostitution sanctified by the Church and protected by the 

 State." "The family is one of the principal obstacles to the 

 enlightenment of men." 



Ferrer carried out the last doctrine literally ; for he deserted 

 and then divorced his wife, Teresa, left his children, Trinidad, 

 Paz, and Sol, to shift for themselves, while he took a mistress 

 by whom he had illegitimate children. 



His teachers represented the same line of thought. Mme. 

 Clementine Jacquinet, his chief instructor for girls, was a 

 French anarchist who had been expelled from Egypt by the 

 British authorities, and who described herself frankly as "an 

 atheist, a scientific materialist, an anti-militarist, and an anar- 

 chist." She had a large hand in preparing the school-books 

 used in his schools. Among his other professors were Mateo 

 Morral, who threw the bomb at King Alfonso on his wedding 

 day, and Leon Fabre. who led in the attacks against the 

 churches in Barcelona, and other local teachers who took part 

 in the rioting. It was the teaching of these schools and 

 their allied clubs and societies which prepared the soil for the 

 events which followed upon the embarkation of the troops for 

 Africa. The anarchists had been waiting for years for such 

 a chance, and here was one made ready to their hands. Nay, 

 more ; every idler, every thug and criminal, every rascal and 

 jailbird, was ready to pitch in and help at the sight of riot 

 and plunder. 



The "Bloody Week" in Barcelona, from July 26 to 31, 1909, 

 is too terrible to record in a few words. At the time of the 

 strike there were only sixteen hundred troops and police 

 left in the city. On the 26th, roving bands of rioters paraded 

 the streets, and frequent collisions with the police took place. 

 Banks, post-ofiices, credit companies, stores, hotels, ware- 



