Count Romanones, who engineered the crisis of February, 1910, is credited by the working classes with having large interests in the mines of Beni-bu-Ifrur, and with having schemed to bring about the war in Morocco, in order to put money into his own pockets. This impression, whether well or ill founded, is sufficient to make him cordially hated by them. He is credited with aspiring to the leadership of the Liberal party, but it is hardly probable that his following would prove strong enough to give him that position.

La Cierva, Minister of the Interior in Maura’s Cabinet, obtained an unenviable reputation in 1909, through his share in administering Maura’s policy of repression. Since his leader went out of office La Cierva’s name has hardly been mentioned among the working classes.

The Conservative-Monarchist Party

Dato, Sanchez Toca, and Gonzalez Besada are the three leading dissentients from Maura’s policy of reaction, and now stand for the old Conservative-Monarchical programme of peace and conciliation without sensational reforms. Their organ is the Correspondencia de España, an eight-paged paper, well printed and got up, containing the fullest military intelligence and the best foreign news to be found in the Spanish Press. It has a far larger circulation than any other Conservative or Clericalist paper, and is to be seen on most of the kiosks in large towns. If it were not believed by the people to be subsidised by the party opposed to electoral and social reforms, its influence in the country would doubtless be considerably stronger than it is. At present the working classes do not read it, although no other paper gives nearly as much matter for the price, which is 5 cmes.

INDEX

[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [L], [M], [N], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Z].

Aguilera, Señor, [240]
Alcalde, the, [265] note
Alfonso XII., [112]
Alfonso XIII., [122-4], [182], [318]
All Souls’ Day, observation of, [46];
scandal connected with Masses on, [84-6]
Ayuntamiento, the, [265] note; [274]
Baptism, [47]
Barcelona, effect of riots, [17];
refugees from, [90], [92];
Carlist activities in, [134] ff.;
stories of riots, [165-6];
bombs in, theory of, [181] ff
Beatas, [21]
“Bull of the Crusade,” [64]
Bullfight, the, [307] ff
Burial, [48], [50-1]
Cacique,the [230-3]
Canalejas, Señor, [243-6], [317-9]
Carlists, alleged plots of, [167], [176];
army, [155-6];
party, [321]
“Catholic Associations,” [163]
Church, attitude towards people, [31-2];
illegal disposal of property, [80] ff;
unique position of,in Spain, [304]
Civil Guard, the, [175], [218] ff
Clergy, children of, [79-80], [106-7];
arming and drilling of, [161], [164]
Clerical Press, the, [28], [169], [235], [320-1]
Confessional, the, [43], [73] ff
Conscription, consolidates Monarchy, [111];
conditions of exemption, [209];
proposals for alteration, [210]
Conservatives, the, [251], [256], [322]
Consumo, the, [15], [288]
Contribucion industrial, [286]
Convent schools, [275]
Correo Catalan, the, [151], [172], [243], [321]
Correo Español, the, [163], [321]
Correspondencia de España, the, [254], [322]
Crossing, modes of, [65-7]
Cuban War, stories of, [200-3]
Customs’ duties, [285]
Demonstrations, clerical, [191-4]
“ popular, [174]
Education, desire for, [15], [33]
Ejercito Español, the, [152], [238]
Electoral system, [229-33]
Employers and employed, relations of, [23] ff
England, misunderstanding of Spanish politics in, [227], [257];
hopes of people from, [277], [318];
admiration of, in Spain, [309]
Ferrer, [147-9], [170], [325]
Gasset, Señor, [236], [317]
Governments, distrusted by working classes, [30]
Heraldo de Madrid, the, [187], [229] note, [257], [270], [318]
Honesty, [62]
Hume, Major Martin, quoted, [133], [228]
Illiteracy, [263], [271]
Images, belief in, [52-3], [55-8]
Imparcial, the, [114], [318]
Irrigation scheme, [237]
Jaime, Don, of Bourbon, [117], [153-4], [166], [170]
Lay schools, the, [169];
clerical campaign against, [190-1], [193]
Liberal, the, [35], [172], [294], [317]
Llorens, Señor, [152-3], [163], [321]
Lottery, national, [298]
Luque, General, [238]
Madrid, attitude of, towards the South, [26-8]
Marriage among working classes, [48-9]
Matches, monopoly of, [292]
Maura, Señor, [35], [115], [137-8], [144], [150], [203], [234], [245], [251-3], [256], [280], [320]
Melquiades Alvarez, Señor, [259], [317], [319]
Monopolies, Government, [291-2]
Montero Rios, Señor, [242], [317]
Moret, Señor, [137], [173], [228], [234], [237], [239], [241-3], [253], [258], [317]
Morocco, war in, [200] ff
Morral, [144], [148]
Moslems, mixed with Spaniards, [28-9];
traditional feeling against, [207]
Municipal elections, 1909, [237]
Nuevo Mundo, the, [7]
Pais, the, [171], [223], [319]
Paz, Infanta Doña, [207]
Penitential dress, [64]
Penitents, [53]
Police, various bodies of, [215] ff
Politics, difficulties of understanding, [228]
Popular songs, [142-3]
Postal service, [298]
Prayers quoted, [67-8]
Primo de Rivera, General, [203]
Public instruction, system of, [264] ff
Purgatory, popular view of, [44]
Queen, the, animus of clergy against, [120];
feeling of working people towards, [121-2], [128];
courage shown by, [182]
Queen-Mother, the, [113], [115]
Religious Orders, the, change of people’s attitude towards, [17];
positions in Spain illegal, [90];
relations to working classes, [93];
underselling of workpeople by, [94-5], [105];
people ruined by, [97-102];
refusal to help at time of distress, [102];
evasion of taxation by, [295];
measures adopted by Government, [317-8]
Republicans, the, [239], [258-60], [317], [319]
Reservists, supposed protest against calling out of, [204]
Romanones, Count, [240], [322]
Royal Family, suppression of news about, during the Maura régime, [116], [123-6]
Sanchez Toca, Señor, [254]
School supply, facts about, [270]
Serenos, the, [217]
Socialists, the, [237]
Sociedad editorial, the, [139], [171-2], [317]
Squilache, Marquesa de, [116-7]
Sugar monopoly, [291]
Taxation, evasions of, [294]
Tobacco monopoly, [291]
Tradition, influence of, [16], [145]
Truth-telling, [61]
Universities, the, [268]
Upper classes, general character of, [32]; religion of, [40]
Vigilancia, the, [217]
War Fund, initiated by the Queen, [117] ff, [127];
contributions of workpeople to, [119]
Working classes, general character of, [14], [30];
what they read, [34];
religion of, [39] ff
Zaragoza, explosion of bombs at, [188]

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] The last edict of expulsion was issued in 1712.