42 ANDREW J. SHIPMAN MEMORIAL 



After coming away, they went to the Cafe Aribau, where 

 Ferrer met Calderon, Ponte, Tuban, and Litran, all of whom 

 were afterward mixed up in the rioting. Then Ferrer, with 

 Domenech, went back to the office of "El Progreso," saying that 

 he wanted to see Iglesias, its editor (the same Emiliano Igle- 

 sias who advocated the assassination of Maura upon the floor 

 of Congress in Madrid), and tell him not to sign the contem- 

 plated protest to the government against the war in Melilla, 

 "because the revolution will be here and the signers will be 

 marching at the head of the populace." On his way from 

 this interview Ferrer met Moreiio, to whom he said that the 

 Solidaridad Obrera should take sides with the rioters, for it 

 was already compromised, and those who did not would be 

 treated as traitors were treated in Russia. 



On the same evening of July 26, after the rioting of the 

 day, Lorenzo Ardid, who was a mild anarchist and a close 

 companion of Ferrer prior to the riots, was taking his coffee 

 in the Casa del Pueblo (the successor to the Escuela Mod- 

 erna), when Ferrer entered and, after salutations, said: 



"What do you think of the events of to-day?" 



Ardid answered : "That is over, but it is a kind of protest 

 that ought to go no further." 



Then Ferrer turned on him sharply : "Don't believe that 

 this will go no further !" 



Ardid began to answer him excitedly. Ferrer grew heated, 

 and Ardid turned his shoulder and said : "You are taking 

 the wrong road." 



In the confrontation of witnesses, Ferrer admitted he had 

 met Ardid there, but denied the language used. 



On Tuesday. July 2^, the day of the burning of so many 

 churches, schools, and convents, Ferrer left his country villa 

 and came into Barcelona. On that day Claudio Sanchez and 

 Miguel Calvo saw a man, dressed in a blue suit and a straw 

 hat with the front drawn down, haranguing a group of riot- 

 ers in the street. Sanchez went up to him and, pointing to the 

 proclamation on the wall, said, "Can't you read that?" and 

 dispersed them. Both of these witnesses afterward identified 

 Ferrer during the examination on three different occasions, 

 among a number of similar persons, as the man wearing the 

 blue suit and straw hat. Francisco de Paula Colldeforns testi- 

 fied that between seven-thirty and eight-thirty that same even- 



