BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-12-20
EDITORIAL

in its assertion to the effect that the
welfare of Porto Rico is one of it's
principal cares the easiest manner in
which it can demonstrate the truth of
the asseveration is to maintain a dig
nifed silence in future in connection
with the question of beneftting the
coffee growers by securing market
for their product.
In this manner can they show the
people of Porto Rico that they are
really sincere and have 40 desire
whatever to further complicate 81
tuation which is already so difficult.
We really must admit that the News
can unearth some of the most amusing
information in connection with this
subject that, if we had anything else
to write, we would not deign to con-
slider its babblings.
But as Monday is always dull day
in newspaper circles we have no other
theme upon which to digress. And in
speaking about Monday being dull
day does not the News" itself give
the very best evidence of that fact by
not publishing on that day2
Then also weN find the Executive
Council without a quorum: the city
administration without lhaving done
anything to merit special encomium,
and the House of Delegates calmly
preparing for meeting without spe-
oial fuss or feathers. Therefore our
readers will excuse us for considering
a subject so dry as the News
OF course it is already well known
that the News" of all the press, af
fords us special delight. If really is
so entertaining and up to date in all
of it's ideas and information. For this
reason we have no doubt that the
News" has long since given up the
idea of forming a part of the daily
program in the public schools.
It is SO grotesqse that it would find
it impossible to maintain itself with a
demeanor in these institutions of learn.
ing and culture. And of course chill
dren do not go to school to laugh at
the text.
But let us return to the true trend
of our argument. We are told by the
News" that we are now approaching
a condition where personal differences
should be forgotten and we should all
work in harmony
One of the great idea of the "News"
is to put our coffee up in special pac-
kages; to prepare special vessles for
same in order 10 put it on the market.
Getit up in much the same style as
bon bons are put up and advertise it
with the work "Pomarrosas" and in
this manner we will undoubtedly sell
untold thoudands Of pounds of coffee
The sale would undoubtedly be SO
great that we could not supply the de-
mand unless we adopted the News
suggestion and used a little fertilizer
on our coffee estates, and in this man.
ner doubled the production.
If the News man is of so san
guine disposition in regard to the
effects of fertilizer upon our coffee
why does he not apply a few pounds
to his think tank III order to double
the production of ideas q which he
possesses in regard to the ways and
means of making market for our
coffee2 1t may be that he realizes al
ready that he has talked so much and
said so little that he himself begins to
realize that his ideas, like our coffee
a present, are unacceptable in certain
quarters. There is one difference,
however, in the simile. We know that
some time our coffee will be accepted,
while the "News" mans ideas have
no SO such hope
Then the News" finds that our
coffee is subjected to a washing by
some green substance which gives it
peculiar color and affects it in such a
manner that it is SO shiny as to be I'M
acceptable to the American market.
That in toasting it the grain is SO af-
fected by this washing process that it
will not take on a proper color, and
fer this also it is unacceptable. But
why does not the News tell us of
France, of Spain, of Grmany, of Cuba;
those countries which have used our
coffee for years and have always found
it acceptable. Have they ever objec-
ted to green substances used in wash
ing? Have they ever objected to the
coffee having high polish, and thus
presenting a much neater and nicer
appearance, being much cleaner be-
cause all of the scale and other matter
which ordinarily adhere to a grain of
unpublished coffee are removed thro-