La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1902-06-03
What must happen.

Whe1 o portion of the body is
diseased, why not reckon also that
the cause of the evil may reside in
the hidden vessels that convey blood
to the sff ected spot? Who said that
the cause of things, and even more
80 of great things, is always super.
fetal and shallow?
AS with the diseased body, SO
with matters relating to social orga-
nization. We must scrutinize deeper
for the latent causes Of social con-
ditiOns.
But would it be of any use to
tell this to Porto Ricans? Would it
be practical to prevail upon them to
give some thought to these ideas?
Perhaps those who read and under.
stand may not esteem them as idle
nonsense; perhaps frivolous eminen.
ces may think it waste of time If
so, no matter. We kdcw that the
particles of pollen driven by the
wind, are invisible, and that from
these invisible grains of life, forests
arise
Let us speak of ourselves, of
our Islands sffAirs, which it is our
duty to shoulder in order to assist
the athletic eff Jrts displayed by tha
Washington government, which
appears to have talk an up the bur-
den.
The general crisis from which
the Island is slowly recovering,
must be referred to almost infexible
laws, to the upheaval of times and
peoples, to evOlutional f&talisms,
set high above all political issues
A fue role. indeed, is the one
played by those who presume to
settle, through party measures,
questions whose solution is deter
mined beforehand by physical, mo-
raj aud social laws! We'are anus sed
at such futile efforts, Our duty Is
to contribute toward the fQlfilment
of what is predestined to be.
Every social evolution demo,
fishes the present and prepares the
future. II we are alarmed at the
ruin of things, of ideas, of personal
aspirations, let as not doubt in POr-
to Rico that from the ruins q phenix
will arise. 1t behooves us to see to
it that such things as are destined
to fail, shall fall at the right time
aud place, for if they are blindly
pulled down, their rubbish may en-.
Cumber our progress. If wa propose
to prepare the future, way should
we insist on building with materials
that have been weakned by time?
This Island which we call ours,
is not ours alone. Unborn genera
tions shall have the same right to
call it theirs. A right which does
not yet exist, but which shall exist
by an iuexorable law. And those
other Porto Ric&ns, yet unborn, have
also right to expect that we, Por
to Ricans of to-day, shall not selfish
ly loo k upon this Island as having
risen from the sea for our Sole ana
exclusive benefit.
Every effort directed to ensure
it's usufIuct only in behalf of one
/ generation, Is bound to meet with
disaster. We know that there are
distinguished egoists who say: after
me the deJNgej but such people are
no better than fools.
Oar deli7er&nce must have solid
foundations so that it's blessings may
reach those who shall succeed us rs
masters of the lsud.
A policy which locks only to
our own benefit, regardless of the in
jury it may cause to others in the
future, is decidedly immoral He who
presumes to live to day, exhsusting
and running the fald for th ose
coming after, is wretch.
We should use the crop, and b.
careful of thu seed. Thus only dc
we understand patriotism. Every
thing else is hypocrisy and good
appetite,
It is q disreputAb'e action, con
sistiug in utilizing for ones se,:
alone q harvest which belongs alik,
to the people of to day and the peo