Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-05-16
Anothcr num,la,lne sr.rtnclr.

Another Illuminating Spectacle.
The picture presented by the New
York Evening Post, in it's special cor.
respondenoe, of conditions 10 Porto
Rico il pItifnl. Discomfort and dis
trust of America is widespread, and
the financial condition OF the island
Is most unsatisfactory, Notwithstanding
the efforts of the administration officials
to convey the opposite Impression. Gov.
Allen stated ia an interview published
in the New York Herald of April 9Th
that times were good on the island,
and 1t has been constantly reiterated
in administration circles that Porto
Rico was rapidly adjusting itself to its
new status, and on the high road TO
prosperity and a fiourishing industrial
condition. But Judge Sulzbacher, of
the island Supreme Court. who arrived
in New York on April 18th, and was
not aware that there was officially no
discomfort nor starvation in Porto Rico,
was indiscreet enough to say that
"Gov. Allen uses tact. He Is a good
man. He rides himself to many far
Districts of the island, where no
Spanish governor had ever visited, and
he is doing all in his power to keep
matters running smoothly. This is
hard Job in this time Of famine, for the
people are In starving condition.
Each morning the farmers come into
town with their products. But they
cannot sell the food Now. either
Judge Sulzbacher or Gov. Allen was
In error in his statement. II the
governor takes the pains to ascertain
the true conditions in the island as
intimated and Judge Sulzbscher WAS
correct 10 his assertions, then Gov,
Allen deliberately uiisrepfesented we'll
known facts, or else he has curio US
idea of what constitutes good times.
When people are in Disseminated and
distrustful state of mind, whom they
are unable to sell the products they
raise, and when they are 10 an actual
condition of starvation, iE cannot
truthfully be said that times with
them are good. As matter OF fact,
the Porto Ricans are leaving their
island in large numbers; $500 have
left the coffee district, where wages are
10 cents day, for Hawaii, and l, DOC
others have left, bound for Cuba,
Ecuador and other places. The Posts
correspondent relates the following
pathetic incident: Away up on O
mountain trail, near Adjuntas, met 9
young fellow of about thirty, with
wife and child, all scantily clad, the
child naked, trudging along the road
where are you going2" l asked
through my interpreter.
Where the people co." (neaninE
the port from which the emigrantl
sail
Where do they RoH''
~ don't know, senor.''
"But why do you want to lesv
hereG''
There IS no money. senior. See,
and be exhibited the bony littl
limbs of his child. 81 want to go an
place to get away from here. II yol
are the senior that buys people, take us
Take us to Guanica or across the sea
Some place where we can eat"
7 "If you are tho senior that buy
people. ~ What terrible arraignmen
of the great and good Mckinley b
Q "the person sitting in darkness 7
= $40, 900, 600 for sight or ten millio
: people In the Philippine Islands-
Q about 81 a-piece $1,000 used to be
8 fair price for first.olass black man !
|. the South before the "sixties,' bu
. human life has deprecated 10 valu
since then and it may take turtle
slump after we have been discipline
and humbugged into adjusting oui
@ selves to the benefioent influences
J. the real imperialism. - As we cor
y slider the unfortunate lot of these POI
!, Porto Ricans, and their utter helples
y ness under the political and con
II mercial heel Of a grent nation,
> thought of Finland arises and sugges
d disturbing comparisons. We womb
Is whether some one in high authori
Ie has not been taking lessons from IL
il Great White Uzar. He also preach'
p. peace and benevolence.