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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-27
MBJ|CO IN IA ACTUAL|DAD
Ell range mas eIevado
COMO
RsPUBLlCA SUD AMERICANA
Progreso constante

I I'm peri6dico neoyork no, dedica 81
atenci6n a examinar Ia actual situa
ci6n de la Repdblica Mejcana y hact
s este proyecto curiosas considerable
mes. Dice que aquella naci6n es entire
todos los paises iheroamericanos el que
>ocupa range mas alto desde ell doble
PINTO de vista de la estabilidad polfti-
ca y del bienestar econ6mico.
Alaba las atlas cualdades que la
puesto de manifesto b3jo esos as, ,ctos,
= graoias a las cuales, ha levado al
Amino de los espfritus mas desconfia.
dos y recelosos la esperanza de ver con
tidas en- realidad las mas halagueiias
ilusiones. El porvenir de M6jico esta
asegurado y su presente contrasta con
ell lamentab!e de las desventuradas re-
pdblicas del Centric y de la America
Meridional, cuya inexperienced & inn
provision tanta saDgre y tanto dinero
las cuesta Los mej'canos ponen aho
"a empefio decidido en- demostrar que
saben gobernarse, polftica y econ6mi
camente no solo del panhispanismo sino
tambiea del panlatinismo. La obra
economical Sc refleja en- la exploitation
del suelo y del subsuelo; en- el CONFER
clio, en- la iniustria y en- ell sistema fis-
cal, es decir, en- casi todo 10 que afecta
a la hacienda pdblica y particular de
los pueblos. En- cinco amos la primera
ha tenido IN excedente de mas de diez
y ocho millones de pesos. El manejo
de la deuda pdblica, que en- muchos
paises mas experimentados solo ha SER
vido para comprometer ell porvenir de
los mismos, ha sido en- Mejioo muy in
intelligence Asi, pues, en- Julio de
1899 Sc negoci6 una conversion de su
deuda con los prjncipales banqueros de
Berlin, Londres, y New York. Gracias
a esa conversion, ell pueblo mejicano
va a realizar una economic de ocho
m Tones de pesos en- ORC.
PasemOs ahora al comercio exterior,
que es ell bar6metro de las variaciones
en- la production y consume de un pals
y ell indicator de su progreso 6 de su
decadencia, como dice con muoha ra
z6n el indicado diario En 1899, Ia
importation de los principaIes produc-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-27
Opinion de Lord Roberts

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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-27
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-27

Ell sabado de la presecte semana, Sc lie.
vara acabo por la juventud de esta ciudad,
un animado bale en- ell Parque BOrinquen.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-08-27

Fla llegade Manati, el sefior Lopez
Gaztsmbide, ha tornado possession de la
comandancia de aquel distrito.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
A COSTLY LUXURY.

Gen. Chaffee seems to think that 30,-
900 American troops will be needed in
the Philippines for perhaps twenty five
years longer. 1t costs over forty five
million dollars a year to maintain that
many troops in the Philippine Islands.
II they are be kept there twenty five
years, the cost will be over a billion of
dollars. And what assurance have we
that troops can be withdrawn in twenty
five years? From what tropical colony
has England or any other country been
able ever to withdraw it's troops? Is it
not probable that it will cost forty mill
Z lion dollars year for all time to hold
the Filipinos in subjection?
The McLaurinites have justified hold
ing the Philippines on the theory that it
would open Eastern markets for cotton
goods, whereas the Filipino costume is
so scant that the Caraleigh cotton mills
alone could supply all they will wear.
The real reason for paying Spain twenty
million dollars for shooting privileges
in the Pnilippines"-to quote the late
Hon. William l.. Wilson-will appears
when the division of the franchises be-
gins on the islands.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
From Murphy to Manteo.

Several days ago Mr.. Eames and New
York associates sold TO Richard Wood, a
Philadelphia ironmaster, the Poison
Branch Iron mine in Ashe county, the
consideration being $4,000. About hun
dred acres were involved
The Charlotte Observer says Mr.. c. W.
Tillett has gone to Richmond, Va, to
argue. in the Circuit court of Appeals,
the case of j. H. Mayes VS.. the Southern
Railway Mr.. Mayesj through Jones &
Tillett, sued the Southern for damages
and Superior court jury rendered YER
dict giving him $1,000.
Hon. Geo. Rountree, of Wilmington,
referee in the suit of the widow of the
late Chief Justice Faircloth, to recover
from the estate $4,000 and interest for
about twenty years on same, took hnal
depositions in the case at Goldsboro.
says the Argus. The above amount was
maiden money of Mrs. Faircloth. which
her late husband was. given charge of,
and for which she claims he did not make
sufficient returns in his will. hence she
dissented from the will and is suing the
estate for her original money and in
tcrest. as above.
Mrs Langford, Is years old, the wife
of a young farmer, VIII Langford, liv-
ing near Fairview, Saturday night ran
into the house and fell into her hus-
bands arms shot. She sank to the floor,
supported by her husband and died. Will
Cate, brother of the young woman did
the shooting accidently.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
BIG DAY FOR RALEIGH.

We published on Sunday the list of
names of Gen. Carr's committee who
will have the direction of erecting a
monument to Sir Walter Raleigh in this
Carolinians. which will Inspire the con-
fidence the movement deserves 1t is
proposed to raise the money by penny
collections from the school children in
North Carolina and from those who use
tobacco. The twenty first Of November
has been appointed by Gen, Carr for
the meeting Of his committee, especially
those who can conveniently at
tend, to start the preliminary
stages of the undertaking.. We
recall no movement in North
Carolina in late years which meets with
more general approval, ard the proposed
method Of raising the money gives all
the people chance and makes a bur
den on no one.
The plan Of erecting monument to
Sir Walter Raleigh at the capital of the
State named in his honor meets with ap-
proval in other States as we'll as in
North Carolina. The Landmark closes
an editorial on the subject by saying:
THE New World owes to no man a
greater debt of gratitude. and it falls
to North Carolina's lot to have prior
right to the discharge of such part Of the
debt as may be paid by a shaft raised
in his name. We trust that the sugges-
tion made by few patriotic citizens
of our sister State may find instant and
practical favor in the eyes of that fine
old Commonwealth as whole"
The news & observer., 1901-11-12

fore the Legislature last winter which
was thwarted by this paper giving pub
licity to it. Having failed before the
LEGISLATURE, they have now hatched up a
scheme to carry their ends by employing
outlawed bonds, which the State in 1879
refused to recognize. Unable to bring
suit against the State, is it not plain that
the men who for years have been itching
to get hold of this railroad, through some
agent has obtained the assistance of the
rotten borough Of South Dakota to bring
suit against the State? 1t is scheme
backed by men of ample means, who are
playing for large stakes. They have
been working to secure the ownership of
the North Carolina railroad ever since
they obtained the lease. Governor Rus
sell, who was creature of the Southern
railway crowd, recommended the sale and
was anxious to carry it through. There
''are others" who were willing to give
the Job lift if it could be done on the
quiet. When this paper exposed the
scheme, they violently and vehemently
denied that such a scheme had ever been
planned, and they had to abandon their
plan OF securing it by legislation
Later in the Legislature bill drawn
by Mr.. F. H. Busbee, attorney of the
Southern railway was introduced, which
was feared to be "a Trojan horse" At
the Legislature adjourned without en-
acting any legislation that could help
those conspiring to get possession of the
North Carolina railroad.
And now comes the last chapter. Kav-
ing failed every other way to consum-
mate their scheme. the State of South
Dakota, through one of their agents, is
made party to the attempt to carry
out the scheme for which Russell laid the
foundation in his message to the Legis-
lature.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
FRUITS OF McLAURINISM. .

Columbia State.
While occasion offers let's have a
laugh! We refer. of course, to the
statement issued by Collector Koester in
explanation and Justification of his ap-
pointment OF George Washington Muir
ray, black. as his first deputy in the in
ternal revenue service. 1t is unlikely
that the case will evoke hilarity from
those who have been expecting that the
results of McLaurinsm would be better
than it's motives and methods. but to
everybody else the situation must seem
very, very funny.
Here among the first fruits of the new
tree of white Republicanisnl-or Com
mercial Democracy, if you will have it
so-is one of the blacklist of negro poll
ticians in South Carolina, very hack in
political harness. one of the most reg
ular' of office seekers and office holders!
Conceive the long faces that are worn by
certain white men heretofore Democrats,
but willing to receive a new light on
national policies, to be liberal and
progressive" in consideration of office
Imagine their chopfallen countenance
as they read that George Washington
Murray deeply black. takes the high
seat in the Koester synagogue. If they
go in now as deputy collectors they will
have to serve with the peculiar repre-
sentative of that black Republicanism
they SO protested against.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
New Thing Under the Sun.
Richmond News.)


Not many newspapers are blessed with
reporters who report in poetry, but the
Fredericksburg Free Lance is one of the
happy exceptions. It's Greene county man
in its last number begins his chronicle
of local occurrences with this outburst:
Quinaue, Va, Oct. 10, 1901.
Miss Mary l. Gilbert and George Jackson
On Sunday morning were both made one,
The attendants We're many and of the elite,
The nuptials were uttered by j. j. White.
Surely son rhymes with lone" ard
from the strictly Anglo-Saxon standpoint.
from which the Greene county architect
of verses wrote, 'lite'' ought to fit with
white Under the Monroe Doctrine
and the protective tariff system we are
exempted from considering any rules
made by foreign peoples for the pronun-
citation Of words from their language i'm
ported into our country and we congratu
late the sweet singer of Greene on the
real American spirit which prompts nini
to use "elite" to meet the exigencies of
versifcation.
He is treading on peculiarly slippery
ground in his next verse
The brides apparel looked richly indeed.
And by those present it was agreed;
OF FIVE married sisters, pretty and fair,
The bride was the most beautiful there.
This illustrates the advantage of re-
porting in poetry The ordinary prose
workman would not dare to make such
comparison, however, well established
might be his personal opinions; but in
verse, we presume, a writer may say
anything and be safe
Further details of the event and OF
occurrences at Quinque are set forth
thus:
Your scribe was invited to see the knot
tied.
Got knock down to the groom and bride
BY the affable preacher, Rev. j. ]. White,
Who in tieing up bundles squeezes them
tight.
A case of the fever at Quinque
Resulted in the death of young darkey.
Mr.. K. n Stephens tomorrow will go
TO purchase new goods in Baltimore.
Work on South River church has stopped
The members are busy handling their
crops,
The sky is propitious, the weather sub
And old man Harlow is on the repine.
He has but one foot that he can stand on
That is half bunion, the others a corn
Call it exaggeration or what you may
Choose
Wears No. hat and No. 10 shoes
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
GROWING LETTUCE.
Promise Of Good Season. Visit to One of the
Lettuce Farms.
(New Bern Journel.)


The bright sunny weather has been
very favorable to the early lettuce crop.
Growers will be ready to ship lettuce in
a few days as the plants are heading
nicely.
Mr.. Edward Clark is large grower of
lettuce and a visit to the lettuce beds is
interesting Mr. Clark has grown let
tuce several years alongside the old
earth works on the Trent road. There
are two beds 800 feet long and 16 feet
wide and shorter bed 210 feet long, re-
quiring 1900 yards of sheeting, Mr. Clark
is now having built large number or
beds i'm the field near the water works.
There are 20 beds 80 feet long and S12
feet wide. requiring $4,000 feet of lum-
ber, and covered by $500 yards of home
spun or sheeting. The sheeting is used
to protect the lettuce at night and cold
weather and is drawn across the beds
which are built like any ordinary cold
frame.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
THE NEW SORT OF REFORM.

Those .'reformers" and believers in
better things who have rejoiced in the
defeat of Tammany in New York city
will have to do a good deal of talking
to convince real reformers that in the
matter of real reform the new admins
tration is far in advance of the old
During the campaign Mr.. Jerome, the
candidate for District Attorney, openly
advocated legislation legalizing the
opening Of saloons on Sunday and "also
for notifications of the penal code bear
ing upon the social evil" and Mayor
Low promised the Germans that if they
would support him there would be a
wide open Sunday
Our criticism of Tanmany has had
it's root in hostility to it's advocacy Of
"a 'wide-open'' city and it's disregard for
the proper observance Of the Sabbath.
1t was for these things-vices, in our
view-that Tammany was denounced
and abused in 1897 and before that time.
This year the Reformers "out Tam
Amanied Tammany' in standing for a
wide-o open town and the making of the
Sabbath a day Of open saloons and the
like. And it is said that, having made
!, that pledge to win, the reform" admin
istration will keep it's pledge.
4 1t has never been an. easy matter to
understand the politics and manipula-
tions of New York city politics. It be-
comes more difficult of understanding
. every day. When an administration
that stands for wide open city gets
the support of the preachers and is her.
aided as reform" administration, the
muddle is beyond our comprehension.
IL reform party should come out
in Raleigh, denounce the existing ad-
msnistration with being in partnership
with vice, and then promise wide
open" city, whs in this good State would
call it a reform administration?
And how many preachers would go in
their pulpits to give it earnest support?
That's what happened in New York
city and they say that it IS all right up
there. Maybe so, but we cannot see
It. sThems not Norf Caliny ways
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
LOWEST INDICATED
YIELD ON RECORD
Corn Averages 1914 Bushels
to the Acre.
TEN YEAR AVERAGE "a
The Indicated Yield of Potatoes SO 8
Bushels Per Acre.
THE TEN YEAR AVERAGE 78 7 BUSHELS
Several States, Among Them North Carolina,
Report an Average Yield of Tobacco
in Excess Of the Ten Year
Average.
The Indicated Yield of Potatoes SO
Bushels Per Acre.
THE TEN YEAR AVERAGE 7o 7 BUSHELS
Average.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated PreSS.J
Washington, Nov 1.-THE following
crop report was issued this afternoon by
the Department of Agriculture
The preliminary estimate of the aver
age yield per acre of corn, as puollsned
in the monthly report of the statistician
of the Department of Agriculture is l6.4
bushels, as compared with an average
WELD of 253 bushels per acre in 1900 and
1899. and ten year average of "a BUSH
els The present indicated yield per
acre is the lowest general average ever
recorded for this crop. being 2.2 bushels
per acre below the yield in 1881, which
has stood for twenty years as the low
est on record. OF the stwentythree
States having one million acres or up
ward in corn. all but Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia and Michigan report an average per
averages The preliminary estimate of
the average yield per acre of buckwheat
is 1879 bushels, against an average yleld
per acre or 10 DuSlelS Ill l5VV, 100 puoH-
els in 1899 and ten-year average OF
1853 bushels.
The preliminary estimate of the yield
per acre of potatoes is 59.9 bushels,
against an average yield per acre of sos
bushels in 1900 SS.6 bushels in 1899, and
ten-year average of 1871 bushels The
present indicated yield per acre is the
lowest since 1890.
The preliminary estimate of the aver
age yield per acre of hay is 1872 tons,
against an average yield of 1.2S in 1900;
1875 tons in 1899, and ten-year average
of 1.2S tons.
On the fifteen principal tobacco States,
nine, including Kentucky, Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee, report an aver
age yield per acre of tobacco in excess of
their ten-year averages while six, in
cluding Ohio, wisconsin and Missouri fall
below such averages
The apple crop is considerably below
the ten year average, the pear and
grape crops are slightly below and the
sweet potato crop is Slightly above.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
IURPENrINE AND ROsIN.
Value of Industry Products Grows 10 10 Years
From to 90 Millions.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, Nov. 1f.-A preliminary
report on the turDentine and rosin in
dustry of the United States was to-day
issued by the Census Bureau showing the
extent OF the industry in the census year
of 1900 as compared with 1890. According
to this statement the total value of
these two products for 1900 was $50, 344,-
SSs, against Ss,077.379 for 1890; the num-
ber of establishments was 1902, against
670 in $780, the capital employed SILL
S32.S45, against S4,o62S75; the average
number of wage earners, 41864, against
1925; the total wages paid $500, ,632
against s2.906.547 and the cost of ma
terials used se,1Ss.5s6 against s2,S74, ,693
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
THE PROPER SPIRIT.

Winston Sentinel
There shall be no personalities, no
pftter feeling and unpleasantness be-
tween these gentlemen and myself" says
Capt. Bob Glenn in referring to his op-
ponents for the United States Senate.
This is the proper spirit and one which
we would like to see prevail among all
the Democrats aspiring for official po
sition. Let there be primary for the
selection Of the candidate for the Sen
atd and let it be conducted upon the high
plane suggested by Capt. Glenn.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12

President Roosevelt will meet with
universal approval in his refusal to ap-
point man to a position in the army
who had Tilted a young woman after
the cards had been issued for the mar
riagc. A man who could stoop to that
dishonorable act would bring dishonor
upon The army.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12

Col. Olds, who has made careful ex-
animation Of the reports for the last
eleven years (none We're kept previous
ly) finds that in this time there were
twelve legal hangings and eighteen
lynchings in North Carolina. The next
eleven years ought to show up better.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12

Having given thirty days additional
time to the Raleigh street railway to
provide vestibuled cars, we suggest to
the Corporation Commission that it ex-
amino the cars already fixed. They give
no protection whatever except in front
and do not at all meet the requirement..
The motorman is protected unless there
are sides to the vestibules.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12

roosevelt turned Addicks down and
held council with Hanna. Is the rea-
son OF the discrimination between these
poodle politicians that one succeeded by
Doodle and the other failed?
The news & observer., 1901-11-12

Mr. 'Grosvenor announces that there
VIII be no tariff legislation. There was
time when he was the spokesman of
the administration. is ha stille
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
DO PROPOSITIONS PAY?

The current number of the Engineering
News begins a discussion that IS as
liable to be settled as the old query:
who struck Billy Patterson 1t asks
whether Expositions pay and. while adj
nittings that sometimes they do pay,
seems to incline to the contrary opinion.
Referring to the publication that the
Buffalo Exposition cost twenty million
dollars the News saws
.sNow $50 ZOO, 900 is large sum of
money. even in these days. What a
large measure of public benefit $20,000,-
coo would work il it were invested in
something permanent--lbraries, picture
galleries, parks, museums. playglonndss
sanitariums, hospitals. Perhaps some
expcsitions are worth while; but let them
not multiply too thickly. and let reason
able economy control in the construc-
tion of things designed to endure for
only few brief months"
Now and then. as for example the
Centennial, the Worlds Fair. or some
like exposition that commentaries some
great event pays in every way, but as q
rule the multitude of expositions pay no.
body except the city in which it is held,
the hotel keepers and the railroads. and
the great expenditure of thought and
money do no good, and ought to have
been applied to something that would
have been of permanent value.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12

For the forty seventh time we are
told that Richmond Pearson is to get a
position abroad in the diplomatic SER
vice. AS he is about the only Republi-
can west of Statesville who hasn't a
Federal job, he must feel lonesome He
will be placed because he lives next to
Mitchell and Madison counties. That
belt of counties gets the lions share OF
the radical pie.
The news & observer., 1901-11-12
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