BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1901-06-05
SAN JUAN, JUNE 5, 1901.
Editorial Comment.

The riots continue in Madrid Spain and
CONSERVATION prevails widely throughout
the aky and various parts Of the Kingdom.
The police and the public have alike been
btt Icked by the mobs with yoleyS OF stones
and II became necessary at the capital
lately to disperse the rioters by means OF
a charge made upon tbem by the civil
guard.
These conditions have now been long
ntinued in Spain and the situation is
taking on most serious aspect 1t looks
as if a crisis may soon come in which the
lower and prestige of the government will
lie taxed to the utter most. The internal
troubles have never been m re menaclng
1t is matter for cOngratulation that a
settlement of the troubles il China seems
Ct last TO have been reached and that there
is prospect of permanent peace in the
orient. Not in a century hfS the safety OF
evIlization been put in greiter peril than
- the recent complexities which have faced
the powers before the dragon throCe and
Drawn 50 heavily upon their diplomatic e
sources. BY tie pesS!miSts it was firmly
believed short time ago that the hour
eater into a final death grasp with the
sIied pagan powers Of tie world, a strug.
gle in which tie issue remained more than
doubtful
Happily the peaceful agre. ment now con
GUIDED renders such fears 3oundess, if in
deed cause for them ever existed.
That the period of colGlal probation
through which Americas few possessions
DIust pass before they are granted terrific
raj rights and eventually Invested with full
safe PoFers will be short mat be confidently
hoped flor.
Tue American people believe not alone
III liberty for themselves bt for all who
live under the flag aud nptn this principle
tie repablic stands The present Pacific
AID Northwestern states 9ere hut few
years ago series of rude fn.uing camps
but WITH the Increase of tixedsapd permanent
pjpulations and the establi1 1lment Of chur-
cles and schools came the NenLind for the
sovereign nights 0f'stateh00di and these were
granted as matter Of couiSe
Porto Rico must and wll become in time
self governing part Of the union.
IS will be seen by au article appearing
elsewhere in this issue tie leading press Of
Germany has awakened to the fact that
Nell grounded suspicion exists in the L. S
as to the future purposes Of the empire in
& c Western continent Sill the traditional
0iendship which has ever bound tie two
countries together cannot he rudely shaken
0 mere specu alton, aud il the ambition of
Ieutou leads him 10 turn towards other
d Ids If industry ana adventure he is lG;
o"ey ng tie psy biological Law hicn has ever
governed ihe progressive peoples Of the
10rld
Perhaps the great naval increase now
Mug carried out in Germany menaces
Z gland, France and Russia quite as much
rs II not more th % America, for MANY
uadeyeloped regions eT'st in I'll the contin-
ol'ts where wherein IN there may te a ia
ure Struggle fer supremacy.
It's true. however, that peculiarly invit-
ing field for German control lies in South
America. Every ytobere throughout that
t0lntry German colonies are found and the
II de Of the whole great region has of late
yea been extending is currents towards
The land of the kaiser.