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Article 3. Jurisdiction of offenses affecting public order in 

 any political or social sense comes under my authority; and 

 the authors [autores, Mr. Archer's favorite word] of them 

 can be tried by summary court-martial. 



Article 4. Persons publishing notices or directions in any 

 form whatsoever tending to disobedience of military orders 

 will be considered as guilty of sedition ; as well as those who 

 make attempts against freedom of labor, or cause impediment 

 or destruction of railroads, street car lines, telegraph or tele- 

 phone lines, or any other conductor of electricity, or water 

 mains or gas pipes. 



Mr. Archer does not tell us of these things ; yet he might 

 easily have inquired about them. They were the reason why 

 Ferrer was tried by court-martial, and extra indulgence was 

 given to him, since he might have been tried summarily instead 

 of having a formal trial of twenty-eight days, the testimony 

 of which filled 1,200 written pages, not one of which Mr. 

 Archer seems to have examined, contenting himself solely 

 with the resume in the "Juicio Ordinario" (which he calls 

 the "Process"), nor does he seem to have examined the fifty 

 odd packets or files of exhibits likewise adduced in the case. It 

 is very evident, therefore, that the "Ley de Jurisdicciones" is 

 simply lugged in to make coloring matter. 



Again in eliciting sympathy for Soledad Villafranca, the mis- 

 tress of Ferrer, and blaming the authorities for not taking her, 

 and her friends' evidence, he says : 



Meanwhile Soledad Villafranca was eating her heart out at 

 Teruel, in total ignorance of what was passing at Barcelona. 

 She and some of her comrades in exile were the persons who 

 could best speak as to Ferrer's employment of his time during 

 the week of revolt ; and they naturally expected, day after day, 

 to be called upon for their evidence. This expectation was 

 encouraged (unofficially, of course, and very likely in good 

 faith) by their jailers. A member of the Palace police . . . 

 bade her wait patiently and the summons would come in 

 due time. 



Mr. Archer does not tell us that the provisions of the Span- 

 ish military code forbid the examination of the prisoner's 

 family and relatives as witnesses against him by the prosecu- 

 tion. He does not tell us either that that Code provides (Arti- 

 cle 479) that the prisoner shall be present at the examinations 

 of witnesses, even though he be held incomunicado, nor that 

 (Articles 362 and 365) he can reply in writing or orally at 

 every moment of the trial (sumario) to any accusation made 



