BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-10-15

blood, or have recourse to remedies OF
the last resort.
Day before yesterdays happenings
was of extraordinary importance and
deserves the prominence we attach to
| it. 1t would be a lesser matter, if
the names and regulations of those
who made this abortive attempt at
violence, were not SO notorious. For
this reason we cannot treat it merely
/ in the light of a disturbance of the
peace with threats of violence and
assault, or an attempt TO create riot,
or as a simple quarrel.
Who were the persons arrested?
The Supervisor of Elections knows
them as we'll as we do. When state
of veritable anarchy was kept up In
San Juan with the knowledge and pos
sible connivance of the authorities and
the police, it was Mr.. Wilcox who
finally put an end to the terrible state
of violence and rule of terror. The
same old gang-the Supervisor of
Ele ctionS would have had to reply to
Ia question as to who were the dis
tur bers and for this reason it is impos-
sible to find any excuse for the shame
full occurrence. In those days OF
darkness for liberty and justice, it
became necessary to advocate the
forming of citizens alliance to defend
the rights of the peaceable people
against the attacks and provocations
of the mob banded together under the
name of the people for the purpose OF
plunder and intimidation.
Against the aggresSions of this band
of criminals we always maintained a.
bold fight, and upon occasions were
arrested and hailed to court for our
Opposition. But the days of darkness
could not last forever, and finally like
a breath of pure air clearing away the
malarial mists of the night came the
decisive and energetic action of Mr..
Wilcox. The horde of drunken hood
lums we're rounded up to ELL the jails
and it was a much needed flushing
of the social sewer, benefit to the
health of society and sort of public
house-cleaning to the people in general.
AS an inheritance from those Sha-
meful times, we should retain nothing
more than an everlasting memory,
but there is more that has remained
with us. We still have that bad taste
in the mouth, that germ which is not
dead but forever struggling for life
and aspiring to reach again the mons
trous proportions which it once at
tanned.
And in order that it may not rise
again the idea of a citizens alliance
is not necessary at the present time,
to protect life and property against
the mob. The police are now very
effective time and are at present
sufficient guarantee for the security
of the citizen.
The lcarts will punish the offenders
with they severity the deserve for the
crimes they have committed, and as
for Mr.. Winthrop, his attitude toward
lawlessness and disorder is pretty we'll
understood.
Violence and crime are like an
epidemic which sweeps over country
and opens wide the doors of the
prison those who fall in it's contagious
grasp. Mr. Hunt, himself, who had
seen worse things in Colorado,
finally became afraid of the spread of
the evil, and took some fain-hearted
sters to check the mob. And if Mr..
Hunt stopped them somewhat, under
his scheme of government which gave
birth and breath to the mob, the
present Governor can be locked to
to stamp out the first outcropping of
anarchy. root and branch.