BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-12-21
SAN JUAN, DECEMBER u


Ii must certainly be o cause for great
self alteration for the Secretary OF Pert Rico
to know that the Tetuan Street philOso-
piers agree with him. The invitation to 60
to the Palace to see real man, takes one
as far away from the Tetuan street Office as
1t is possible to be within the limits Of the
hands with himself, he's very lucky.
TLe.e can be NO real doubt that the Gov
ernor ID glad to be back in Porto Rico, and
that he 10 pleased to know that the people
here appreciate hin, but there should be .
let up in these festivities somewhere for just
long enough space Of time to permit MIR.
HINT an hour with his family. They've
got some claim on him.
The statement that . Lomesick people
will never be colonixing people fails in its
application to Americans in San Juan.
We coloni1e and carry our homes With NJ.
Christmas trees, holly and evergreen We
almost forgot mistletss), in almost every
home, aud we can almost believe that 1--WE
have lived here forever. The ice factory
people should get up fine Christmas stock
Va 4VoAJ AAoAO oAVWs
The United States continues to be unfor.
tunate In Ito forsign-built cruisers hastily
purchased at the outset Of tie Spanish war:
One OF them, the Topeka, was thoroughly
refitted for the training squadron at
Boston only as1ort time ago and now the
report comes that when she reaches Norfolk
from her cruise she 10 likely tG be laid up
sPs Pss@Snsnt Il s .s ssa that tAs
given TO any American built vessel in the
navy". And yet there used to be wiseacre
among us who insisted that the wholesale
purchase Of foreign vessels soas the only
way to create . prosperous and American
merchant marine.
Self preservation ID the first Law Of nature,
but it is hardly fair to join the opponents OF
Cuban reciprocity. It can be remembered
that Cuba kept her hands of all things Por.
to Rican, and it il highly possible that in
hurting Ouba we may some day hurt our
selves. The tariff was of just about one
month when the FIVE cent coffee bounty
began to be heard from. Let Cuba alone.
It 10 Q great pity that DR.. Brumbaugh
was not here to see the exercises in the city
schools yesterday. There we're two real
Santa Claus on hand, but the real Santa
Claus Of the Porto Rican school boy and
gilr was away. 1t is safe to say that Santa
Ii hard at work looking up new line of
everlasting presents for his charges. Santa
never sleeps.
The rare and almost imperious passion
Tor the endowment of vast, permanent and
potential seats of learning and culture in
the United States Is nothing new nor
strange in land Of tree institutions. What
more natural than that highssuled citizen,
risen to aEaence from the common level.
should regard as supreme benefaction the
privilege Of higher education which he him.
sslf had not enioyedi Increased knowledge
means increased capacity for right thinking
and right living, together with . larger
measure of happiness when fortune favors
and Of serene philosophy when the ficIle
goddnes trowns. To confer this inestimable
boon Of mental and spiritual psise and
equipment iS to offer to humanity Q psram-
cunt and supreme benefaction. Small Won
der, indeded, that 90 u-spy modern Midases. |
who have themselves, perchance, known in |
earlier years the black depths and grinding |
pangs Of proverty, should seek to throw Al
golden light athwsrt the pathway of future
seekers after knowledge.
Nations often find it necessary for seif |
protection to manifest the dog in the msnQer |
spirit. The United States certainly has not |
purchased the Danish Antilles with any
object Of commercial benefits of trade. nor |
even ~ naval site. To prevent some one |
else from having them, is the only excuse /
that can be given which ID founded on reason |
or facts.
Tho Alcalds Of San Juan ID falling into
tie nut which many OF his predecessors lived /
in. For some weeks We had absolute quiet /
in our streets, and with the bootblacks under
restriction, life Was worth the living. Nov.
adays the noise IL worse than ever. an ap.
preaching car 10 hailed 20 Justify that one
almost thinks South American revolution
. at hand, and nights uninterrupted sleep
. IN absolute impossibillty. The Alcalde
'hould not spoil hiD record, ct this late hour.
Il is to be regretted that President II
Roosevelt should have attempted to par. II
lioularise with respect to the Monroe doc |
lrins. For example, there was no need
% suggsat to Europe that 1--WE do NOT Ii
guarantees any state against punishment III
9 misconducts itself, provided that pun /,
shment does not take Ne form Of the
acquisition Of territory b. any non Amer
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