70 ANDREW J. SHIPMAN MEMORIAL 



three orders actually engaged in the charitable and benevolent 

 institutions of the state, who receive their bare maintenance as 

 individuals in lieu of a salary. 



The total revenue of Spain is about 1,090,750,000 pesetas 

 (or $218,150,000), and the Church — including the civil officers, 

 who are paid out of the appropriation — receives a little over 

 40,000,000 pesetas (some $8,000,000), or about 3 6/10 per cent 

 of the Spanish revenue. As Spain has 19,000,000 inhabitants, 

 the Province of Barcelona (conterminous with the diocese) 

 pays merely 1/19 of the total sum set aside for the Church, and 

 accordingly, to use the methods of the anonymous author, each 

 individual inhabitant of Barcelona has to pay 42 cents annually 

 (instead of $30) for the support of the Church. If the mem- 

 bers of our congregations (of any creed) in America could 

 be let off so cheaply, they would be proud to acclaim it. 



It would take up too much time to go over the figures given 

 seriatim and show their falsity — the number of religious 

 houses in Spain has already been given in "America" — but the 

 rest of the figures in this latest book are about as true as the 

 figures which the anonymous author gave for the Barcelona 

 diocese, and which I have just analysed. The whole publica- 

 tion is intended to affect public opinion in regard to the state 

 of affairs in Spain by the time the Cortes meets again, and the 

 religious questions are once more to the front. It is, however, 

 well to be able to recognize these figures for what they are, 

 gross falsehoods and not true statements of fact. 



