Francisco Ferrer; his life, work and martyrdom, with message written ...

His Life and Work. yy
EDWARD CARPENTER:
"It is high time indeed that the mass populations of
modern lands should be able to look around, take intelligent
reckoning of their position, and set about the management
of their own affairs—instead of being kept
under, in a state of chronic fear and ignorance, by the
threats of armed Property and the incantations of Religion.
"This liberation is already rapidly taking place in
America, but in the old countries of Europe it goes
slowly. In Spain it has gone very slowly hitherto, but
in the future it will move more rapidly; and the death
of Ferrer will become the signal of a new era to that
country and to the world."
Sheffield, England, August, 1910.
JACK LONDON:
"Had the noble Ferrer been killed in any other century
than this, he would have been but one of the host of
martyrs. But to be killed as he was killed, by a modern
state, at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century,
is to make his martyrdom not only an anachronism,
but a startlingly conspicuous historical event.
"It were as if New England had, in the twentieth
century, resumed her ancient practice of burning witches.
"This killing of Ferrer is inconceivable and monstrous.
And yet it happened. And we stand aghast and cannot
quite believe. We know it did happen, and yet it is too
impossible to believe."
Glen Ellen, Cal., September, 1910.
UPTON SINCLAIR:
"Capitalism is a hideous thing in all its aspects, and
hateful in all the methods by which it seeks to perpetuate
itself, but it becomes especially hateful when it employs
superstition and bigotry in its aid and seeks to turn the
religious instincts of the ignorant people into engines of
cruelty and oppression. It is doing that to-day in Russia
and in Spain, and it is well that we who live in America
should bear in mind that if it does not do so in our
country, it is simply because it does not dare to. We
have here many millions of ignorant and helpless foreigners
who have been its victims abroad. They bring