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THE MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW. By Thomas E. Watson. (Continued from Last Week.) In Quito, the progress of religion and murder was seen more appalling. Wo read (arm our account is based on El Pro¬ greso doubt of February under “religious 22) that the multitude, >v no etraced into the prison, auspices, with pen and, than"a savage refinements of cruelty, killed more hundred Radicals detained as conspirators against the dominant clericalist government. Four generals and the Freethought editor, Corral, were brought to the cemetery of San Diego. It was then and there that the horrible mutilations—the cutting out of the tongue of each of the five unh& men, and their taunting invitation lo make speeches, referred to in my last article— ■ took place. They were afterwards tor¬ tured by a number of wounds carefully in¬ flicted on the most sensitive parts of their . bodies, a detail which suggests the cleri¬ calist- refinement of Montjuich. Their hands and feet were then hacked off. and, continuing the hellish (or heavenly) work, the victims were suspended to high beams set up in the ground. When they were half strangulated, the cords were cut, and their bloody members were saturated with petroleum and set fire to. When the poor wretches were half dead the fire was .damped and carried down, the bodies and then were the wrapped heads up away, of the five unhappy men were cut off. Tho head and the heart of General Eloy Al faro, were afterwards fixed on pikes and • paraded through the city. From later in formation, published in El Motin of March 7, it appears certain that the murderous , proceedings in Quito were provoked by is the clergy. The proof of their complicity shown by the fact that the hordes that attacked the prison were led by the priests and by elements under their inspiration. , My friend, Francisco Gicco, writing on February 15 of these events in his paper ' (El Progresso, Buenos Aires), declares , that the outrages were organized by the reactionary government in order to get rid of the veteran general, Elroy Alfaro, the . Freethinker ex-president of the Republic, and his brother, Gen. Flavio Alfaro, who . at the time of his murder in the cemetery at Quito, was the president of the Free thought Ligne in Ecuador. The reign of terror is not over yet. On March 5, General Julio Andrade, the milita¬ ry commander at Guayaquil, was assassi¬ nated—as the euphremistic telegram tells ns—“by his own soldiers... Thereby hangs a tale. Andrede, though he was the political enemy of Alfaro and his party, was opposed to the defeated men beiug sent for incarceration at Quito, and, to¬ gether with Plaza, did all he could to pre¬ vent the perpetration of these horrors. This murder marks the vengeance of the dominant Clericalist faction ’in Ecuador. No wonder Mr. Cunninghame Graham, writing to is me from Rome, declares that “Ecuador a disgrace to humanity.” Other people think so, too. I learn that" al¬ ready in Peru, in the Argentine, in Chili, and in Panama a movement is on foot to demand that the governments of these Re publics should break off all diplomatic re¬ lations with the savages of Ecuador, whose piety is apparently only equalled b their ferocity. These unspeakable acts educated were perpetrated b a Catholic, populace in the holy fear of God, by men consecrated to the Keart of Jesus, who had read no other literature ifhe Catholic than authorities the Christian in Quito, Catechism, like JSaodern Sauls, consented to the crime, and ~he men of law and order applauded its tommission. As El Radical bitterly de¬ clares, no Jesuit, no priest, and no high ecclesiastical authority did aught to 'pre¬ vent these autos-de-fe. Our contemporary wants to know what the Catholics and conservatives of Spain, and elsewhere, have to say about these events? Let them compare these excesses with the paler events of the “tragic week” of Barcelona or the recent excesses in Cullera, and de¬ clare in their conscience if the barbarism is on the side of the Christian religion or of the Secular School. agree with El Radical that religious fanaticism produces the same fruit in ail countries and in all times. Ths fanatic of the twentieth century is the spiritual con temporar of the cave-man. The Oatnqlio of Ecuador, is rhe barbarous an I ‘uqnisi torlai brothir f‘f tho Spaaith Catholic who executed the orders of Totquemuda. Quite raoauUy, tho Spanish Nation was coaaser&tad to the Sieved Heart of Jesus. Absit ettn-m! the If the people the of Spain Ecuadorian want to emulate virtue of bigots, let them bring back Maura and tho Catholic reaction, which is striving so hard to quench ideas in of blood Ssoueia and terrorism Moderna. the sain tsry the But it u not from apprehended- the Spanish people that tho evil is to be -it is from the thildren of Torquemada who chaunl the services of God in the churches, cathedrals, and monasteries of Spain, and use their THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA.! influence to shut out the light of secular education from the eves of the toiling masses. In view of that modern miracle, the re¬ vival of the Inquisition under a twentieth .century republic, our Spanish friends liv¬ ing under the monarchy of modern Spain do well to take alarm at the audacity of the common enemy. El Motin declares that if the Catholics were to regain power in Spain they would put into the shade the abominations of Ecuador. Acting on the defensive asainst the eternal foe of human freedom, our brave Madrid co-worker con¬ tinues its exposures of the Holy Inquisi¬ tion. Its relation in the number for February 22 of the cruel martyrdom on May SO, 1554, of a young Jew. as recorded in the cold-blooded legal diction of the Inquisi¬ torial notary, reads quite humane as com¬ pared with the recent outbreaks in Quito, and its excellent cartoon, which exhibits Pope Damascus, hatchet in hand and the papal tiara on his head, directing the. mur¬ der of the heretics, takes the mind back to days when the decencies of ccclosiasi'.cal assassination were better observed in tin? Basillica at Rome than in the street? of Quito. Nakens is not disposed to submit with¬ out resistance to the installation in Spain of the modern methods, of the Inquisition, lie has returned again to the charge with another damning exposure of the Holy Office, in his w hook, entitled E! Santo Officio, showing the germs of the Inquisition, its establishment in Spain and its inner legislation. The work will be uniform with El Almanaque. recently reviewed in the Freethinker, and I am waiting to receive this fresh fruit of the joint labors of Jose Nakens and Pey Qrdeix. in order that our readers may know more about the beauties and brutalities of the Inquisition. The work now launched is to be followed by another similar volume in this month of March, an announcement which I make merely to indicate in some faint measure the serious substantial literary output of our enter¬ prising and industrious co-workers, and their deep, sense of the serious dangers to civilization lurking in the church and creed which in Quito have again made the name of Christianity synonymous villi barbar¬ ism. Surer, England. "William Tleaford. In Conclusion : It in the 385, that the Roman 1 was year Catholics forced the Emperor .Maximus to murder Priseiliian and five other Christians of Spain, summoned after those Rome, believers in Christ had been to by the Pope, had been triad for “heresy”, and had been condemnd. Ever since that fatal day, popery has been killing dependent, men Christians and women wherever there were in¬ whom, the Pope could murder. „ The annals of , history drip , with the blood shed by the Bars of Christ.” In their march , to universal power manhood and m • r Reason, these popes have halted at no crime. That there has been a revival _ of popery, no one can deny, - Ti hat will it mean, if it moves onward without repulse and wins the upper hand again, the l&w of popery ivanis us, the record of popery teHs , AND THE GRAVES OF THE MARTYRS REMIND US. Speaking through Cardinal Manning, Pope Pius IX., said: I claim to be the supreme judge and di¬ rector of the conscience of men, of the peasant that tills-the field, and the prince that sits on Hie throne; ox the household that lives in the shade of privacy, and the legislature that makes laws for kingdoms. I am the sole last supreme judge of what is right and wrong. Vide Letters of Quirimts, Appendix 1, page S32. Says Pope Boniface VIII:— We declare,- say. de-firm, pronounce it to be necessary to .snlv.dMn for every human creature to he subject to the Roman Pon Jur. Cam, a pithseo, torn, ii, Ex irar. lib. V fit. 8, cap. 1. , j a decree of this pope, which is part of . law, these words canon occur:— i Jn his power there are two swords, the : J spiritual and tlib temporal. . . . Temporal | authority must lie subject to spiritual j power.— Extrav. Coin.. lib. 1. c. J. The Fourth Eateran Council. 1215, declar ed that if any sovereign “neglected to purge his territory from heretical fill'll,” he should be “‘bound in the bands of excommunication;” Ja jane “!f ho the neglected to make satisfetion within year,” pope should “pronounce his mb¬ l jeote Absolved from their allegiance, and ex the territory "to be seized iii/Conc. by the Oatlio “ - Coiu.il. Lai. IV. Can. Labb., torn. „X 1, pars 2 , col 148. (The End.) V KEEP YOUR EYE ON SENATOR MAGNUS JOHNSON. {Continued from Pago Four.) The answer is, Wall Street can’t answer th - book and its suits Morgan and his Wiends i, to hold Magnus Johnson up to public ridicule than to attempt to explain Dr. King’s figures. The United States Chamber of Commerce started the rfiment startstican—Dr. Ingails— a quest, the result of which appeared Och-- 4. What did Ingalls find? ‘Dr. Ingftils has undertaken an original estimate of the distribution of national wealth. He finds that 2 per cent, of the people cannot possibly own more than half the national wealth.” Accepting Ingalls' figure's. Senator Johnson far wrong. He said 65 per cent. IngalF says 50 per cent. Why quibble? Admitting for sake of argument that Ingalls is right, isn’t it a shame for two per cent of tho people to own one-half of the nation's weakh? Would you this an “equitable distribution of It is a well known fact that the recent victor ies of Western Progressives do not set well on the stomachs of old line politicians. The two old parties can't handle the Western States, as they have handled the Southern and States for more than a generation. Revolt i in the air; and the Underwoods, Lodges, feel it in their ) ones that the American are. determined to uncrown their political mast and cake charge of their government. The Two Buzzards see the handwriting on tho wall. They are baffled. Their wits refuse to work. Their machines are crumbling, and they know it. It is a significant fact that with all the money spent bv this government on statistics, taking, data-gathering, arithmetic-making, and Chamber of Commerce faking, no dependable census on the distribution of wealth has turned out by the U. S. Government. Why? Our masters—our rulers—our kings—can’t | ford for the people—farmer:, and workers—to leam that two per cent of the people own the nation's wealth. It is conservatively estimated that thirty men own the nation’s banking facilities and transpor tation system, by interlocking directorates. The Federal Reserve System is conducted by these men for themselves, their confederates. and their foicign partners. In less time than two years, the Federal serve System will be extended to the world. ,u \ Ensknd forced tie gold standard on worli. Our Thirty Money Kings are. permitted t t< bring cn panics, at will. . They er.joy license to destroy values, without noV.ce. The-" manipulation of transportation enables j tlism to favor gamblers who corner vast stores j of feed products: when the gamblers corner the j food supply, the railroads refuse to supply cars I to farmers whose products, if shipped, would ! bring the gamblers to their senses. Their manipulation of the money supply ena bbs them (o crush competition, bankrupt culture, and starve workers into submission. Their system talks to Congress through the United States Chamber of Commerce, and Con gress acts. Magnus Johnson didn’t paint a false picture | of conditions in this country. His statement was conservative, based on ; facts and figures, and it sinks into the hearts of millions, Wail Street’s propaganda against Magnus Johnson, Robert M. LaFollette, Brookhart, Ship- 1 stead, Frear, and other Progressives, is not hurt jng the Progressives. It is making them strong cr. And there will be a reckoning, some day. 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