BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-08-29
4 Political Blunder

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of party discipline the supposed incor-
poration to the national republican
party had been accepted. 1t shows
that there are true patriots in the por-
>torican political collectivities, who
have given the cry of alarm answered
by many of the republican persona
litieS.
The incorporation is against Porto
rican interests and this is the criterion
of Mr.. Degetau, as expressed in his
letter to Mr.. Rosy, of Mr.. Gordils, in
his conference in the sAteneo, as also
by the "Agu1la" of Ponce in it's issue
of the 10th, which brings important
declarations and we call attention to
them, because if Messrs Degetsu and
Gordils have talked, they have and
can do it on their own account, while
the "Aguila" is a paper, and as such
represents large group, and when
it says something it can be taken as
the opinion of many.
Truly that dense mist, is dacken-
ing the horizon of the republican par
ty, but it is true also, that out of the
present seemingly chaotic situation,
neW party may spring into the life of
politics that will be in accord with the
spirit and in touch with the aSp1ra-
tions of the people, and running not
the risk of protest from the men, who,
in the proposed incorporation have
seen the sad abdjcation of the rights
of the Portoricans to defend their
interests and achieve the conquest of
all possible benefits to the island,
through the work of the political
parties.a
Mr. Gordils wan in the right when
ne mainteined in the Ateneo that
incorporation was an absurd, since the
platform of the national republican
party, contained nothing of reforms,
while it Consigns that the colonial
policy needs not of any. The national
republican party does not care, nor
will it take any notice of cur Condl-
tions, and the ratification of the ''statu
quo" in colonial policy is a proof that
the men that met at Chicago, know
nothing about the financial affairs of
the island, nor of its intolerable condi-
tions.
If we read the report of the Porto
ricans commissioner to Chicago, we
can see at a glance, what little notice
they have taken of the solisitatiOns of
our commi miSSiOnerS. and IT they have
shown large amount of courtsy to
them, and effusive distintions, this is
nothing for the country after all, it
means nothing, while the abdicatios
and resignation of our rights for def
fense, by the Portorican delegates
aud the APPRECIATION of their party to
their blunder means a good deal, it
means much.
That the much talked of incOrpOra
tion is fact or not, there will alway S
xists the anteCedent that in momen t
eof Observation-Disclosures It's of our island
had been abandoned it the hands of a
strange party that had not any mate
rial interest in their advancement.
When Mr.. Gordils protested against
the incorporation, it was not exactly
the certainty or not Of the same having
been effected that hurted him, but
that it should be converted by his
party in some sort of advertisement,
instead of having rejected it emerge
tically if by chance, it hat been offered
to them by the metropolitan party.
Now We have to wait for favorable
events, as out of the present move
ment of protest, new light might
surge to show the way to success
What is passing in the republican
party is of public domain, and as a
consequence of Our domain too. Dis
sidences in political parties turn out
at the end to the general benefit, the>e
class of troubles look like social storms
and are needed once in while, as the
parties, whatever their name be, come
to understand that their work is the
people concern, and if any authority
they have, that comes from the people
also.
1t is algo good lesson to our poll
ticians, who generally live in the
realms of ideal poetry, going alwa ys
against the current of public opinion,
wishing for autonomy in the time of
political identity, and in colonial til
mes, plain and visible, desiring terri
torial or state government. This les
son will bring them down to reality
and reason.
Perhaps new platform with tangi-
BILE solutions for the actual problems
will be the result, and the people