BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-05-27
OUR RUIN


uf the actual aud economical crisis.
lss carseS. and consequences cons
titud the most forced themes Of the
present discuiion. The Press fulfil =
} sacred duty IN trying 10 pun and end
to the bad contion Of the Island, and
these cannot be better tasle not .
most meritorious occupation, and il is
pot sterile the campaing which we
have been sustaining. /. has been
heard-here and far away. In the CO
lony and at the metropolis. because
it6s write there the place where we
can explain our desires, and how We
are going TO find ourselves in the
future.
We adress ourselves in english to
the representatives of the people of
the United States. and we send
grstis some hundreds of copies of
each edition of the Bulletin, and we
write in their own language, in order
that they may understand us better.
The Boletin always working and
Insisting on for the happynes OF
Puerto Rico and the credit of North
America takes to representatives OF
the mort american people the frank
expression of the true without dis
Stimulation.
As we know that there, in the States
and amongG the high funcionaries of
Washington and delegates of the
POPULAR sovereignty are officers who
are looking over us, we hope to be
. heard.
1.-The time has already arrived, it
is in the metropolis where they ought
to put and to our calamities and mis-
fortunes and however we address
ourselves to the Congress of Wash
I ington.
It is necessary that some one should
face them and tell them the true of
what is happening in Puerto Rico,
since the initiation of the american
invatiOn.
1t is in the power of the Congress
and of the peple of the States, and not
. in our hands the nesSesary reforma-
tion of the organic law in these is
land since our house of representa-
YES do or as be what we have been as
Ng.
And so we have to manifest to the
peopleTof north america that Puerto
Rico has been suffering since the in
vation, the creates delay in her pu
'blic wealths until to be feeled in her
countries and cities the sickness which
she never new. The MISERY and
'hunger. At present we are feeling
tle eject of want of purchasers for
bur coffee not on account Of the de-
fets of the country grains nor the
deferines of a public who knows how
% appreciate it but for the interna-
ionaF reprisa1 against our prejudice
md for our ruin. The marked for
b1r coffe were close, as if the were
rying in SO acting to compensate the
Enormous damage infer to our richest.
The United States thought the best
stablishing with us the coasting
fade, leaving aside the coffee our
rst trade exclude of all its benefits
Ind out of extrange competency and
1th out the least protection.
That is not what Porto Rico expect
h from the administration.
The rich and powerful country ought
have given Us something of what
has in abundance.
his is just. The regime of free trade,
here our coffee is not included has
cen the cause of our ruin, and that
all what we have from the United
ates.
Between two countries so different
lifes, where there is no proportion
the production, free trade relations
Ia 1iUt exist, and the result must
ruin and absortion of the small
le.
ii is easy to understand. There is
protection to our coffee, and that
mot he free trade, because coffee is
principal product ourt since 1t is
bwn all over the world
For all these reasons the Represent
Us of The people of the United
ates must understand that free
de between Porto Rico and the
aited States is nothing but a force
1 that we must be ruined if after
sipg all the markets We ad it is
our coffee in a complete abandon :
ut to foreign the free competition
the markets Of the United States.
is evident that that states Of i'm
tation decreases and that the re-
he cannot be sustained any longer.
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