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and training schools for girls. 5 ; hospitals, asylums and homes 

 for old people, 63; schools and colleges, 221. In the schools 

 and colleges free instruction is given to 75,000 annually, and 

 among them are included kindergartens, day nurseries and re- 

 ception rooms for the children of the poor, while their parents 

 are at work during the day. All these are maintained at their 

 own expense and efforts, are entirely exclusive of the state 

 public schools, hospitals and charitable institutions — except in 

 regard to three religious orders, who perform at state expense 

 in the public homes and hospitals the works of charity and 

 mercy carried on by those institutions. If they were displaced 

 that expense would be vastly increased by the employment of 

 lay persons in the service of the state. 



But this anonymous author never so much as alludes to 

 these facts. Moreover, he includes as religious organizations 

 the various Catholic clubs, fraternal societies, Christian Doc- 

 trine confraternities and sodalities which exist in connection 

 with every Catholic church the world over, and which are 

 always associations of laymen who pay their own meagre ex- 

 penses in every instance, and are in no sense religious com- 

 munities. In no single instance is there one cent contributed 

 to their support or maintenance by the government. The state- 

 ment of the anonymous author in this regard is an absolute 

 invention. It is likewise untrue that any religious orders in 

 Barcelona are engaged in business or trade, or carry on fac- 

 tories for the sale of their products. The official Hst before 

 me shows that there is none there which is so engaged. 



The author goes even further in the realm of invention. 

 He says the Spanish government gives every year some 8,000,- 

 000 duros (that is 40,000,000 pesetas) or $30,000,000 (!) for 

 the support of the clergy, religious orders and lay associations 

 of Barcelona. In the first place a duro is the Spanish word for 

 dollar, and is equal to five pesetas, so that $30,000,000 is 

 almost more than four times the amount actually given! In 

 the second place, the sum of 8,000,000 duros or 40,000,000 

 pesetas, is the sum spent by the Spanish government for the 

 entire Church in all Spain. It goes to pay the secular salaries 

 of the Minister of Worship and his clerks, the upkeep of 

 church buildings, and finally the salaries and stipends of the 

 clergy in actual charge of the churches and parishes. The re- 

 ligious orders and lay associations get none of it, except the 



