Ferrer Recommended Poisoned Weapons.

The Paris correspondent of the "Sunday Times," who was in frequent contact with Ferrer, speaks more clearly:—"At Barcelona he started his School of Liberty, a title he changed to Modern School, to avoid conflict with the authorities. It was a training centre for the dissemination of Anarchism and Atheism in Spain, and dependent from it he opened twenty branch schools throughout the country. An item, among others of his teaching, was to recommend that weapons should be poisoned when used for political assassination, so as not to miss the mark. Just as Ticino was the centre of Italian Anarchy years ago, so Barcelona was, under Ferrer, the headquarters of Spanish Anarchy."^†

The "Manchester Guardian" admits that Ferrer himself described the object of his schools in these words: "To make children reflect upon the lies of religion, of government, of patriotism, of justice, of politics, and of militarism, and to prepare their brains for the social revolution."^‡