BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1904-09-01
Democracy for
Young America

Let us forget for a moment Our
internal politics and analize the effects
of Imperialism in the metropolis. The
words of Mr.. Parker can give us a
basis, the same has been published in
our issue of yesterday and of course
are we'll known to our readers.
The programme of the candidate for
the democratic. party, wisely conden-
sed' will no doubt influence largely
the actual policy of the party in
power
Where the change is most needed
is in the policy of Imperialism which
is formidably developing and under
laying the democratic institutions of
North America and which is turning
what was once great democratic
republic into a burgess empire, and
have caused that people which were
presented as a model people by the
great educators of the multitude, be
considered now as the natural enemy
of other peoples.
If our Castelar, were alive, he would
NO more maintain that the people of
the United States were the creators of
an almost perfect democracy the pur-
est known by men.
The Americans would indeed have
been pleased to hear the voices of Mr..
Parke, urging the necessity for the
American Nation to take her place
again at the head of democracy, or
otherwise, to wait for the hour of
adversely and to suffer the bitter
lessons of dissapoin tmen, and failure.
In our opinion, the United States
have attcm pied two different coloni-
cations, to find out the convenience or
inconvenience of each.
Cuba and Panama has been the one
and Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Phi
lippines the other; the first group is a
lesson worthy of admiration by man
kind in general, when two peoples
have been schooled differently, when
other laws are part of the individual
and tetermine his feelings, it is impos-
sible without causing irreparable harm
to change his chararter and indivi
duality by the introduction of new
rules and methods which do not fit.
Without getting into deeper inves
LEGATIONS, the difference between one
and the other trial of colonization can
be appreciated at a glance. There is
Cuba wealthy and recovered from her
ruin of a moment, grateful to the
American people, free to legislate to
herself according to her high degree
of culture and safe in the ample
future.
There is Panama, which in the natu-
raj course of things has much to wait
from the future and which will be
come one of the best markets for
America.
But if we look about us, we find
only a dark vision in competence with
the lighted fields of other countries.
We are a people that have to emigrate
to foreign countries seeking the right
to live, which is denied to us in our
soil We are a people with a spirit
decayed by pain and misery, and
without energy to aspire to be more
than beggary. A proof that we are
in the right, is offered to us by the
Americans themselves trying as they
have, two different methods of colo
nization.
If democracy has not disappeared
from American and with democracy
respect to life, which is the origin of
respect to all institutions and rights,
the American people would find out
the true facts and justice would be
done to us. And it will be then time
again to say that America is great and
the Americans christian people.
And then perhaps, governor Odell
of New York will have no occasion to
say that money is wanted for the cleo
tions.
All those attacks to the rights Of
men, which are at present the rule,
all these military conquests, all have
to disappear frcn the United States,
if they do not wish that other nations
head them in the race of civilization.
The democrat candidate is man of
sharp foresight, and he can see that
over the opulent republic there are
clouds which are becoming darker and
thicker every day.