BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-05-08
EDITORIAL

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duS,ry
An asserncoa colleague. yesterday
had s0saesh.ns more 10 say n rels,on
io ihc ~ ming ofhcc q thc govern
men;.
II &C arc 20 accvp, What i affir:ns
i Is clear hat IL, alleged deed Is
very oeaSurable. but what io rs is
more important Is 20 coHsi.n the pro
tests among the many uiheiS provo
ked since the foundation Of the prin-
ting shop which is msnsged ~ Mr.
Post. iha, man of rare genius, whs not
only invcntS bottoms for ships. but
who aspiT-S TO be the mos, worthy Of
the SUCCESSORS Of Guttenbuig. spend
ing for mscnInery and type md cases
thousands and thousands Of dollars
furnished by people completely rui-
ned by causes viii h We ali know and
among them is the maintenance Of
he government printing office.
The money spent IL this printing
shop may be said TO be the creates ex-
travagance committed BY the ameri
can administrations since the time Of
General Davis when the printing
shop was founded up TO III unfortu-
nate days of the present protector of
this continental encampament which
operates against all law and which
wastes budget which should be ap-
piled to more useful objects.
The government should not compete
with private industries in any class of
business. not only because it is an
injustice to occupy places which are
for public Offices, which pay no taxes
to the state 10 help maintain the bur
dens of government and which mono
polizes the effects of public sale, but
that the peope should have to pay for
the amuss ments of Mr., Post and his
industrial diversions
This is very hard, but we have to
say it.
The government is injuring pri
vate industry.
This printing office which has cost
the country 50 much money. and Mr..
Post so manv mcnt4 Al worries, has co
me to be heavy burden for the peo-
pie, heavy and oppressive, irresistible
and crushing which offers no utility
and produces irTeparable evils.
In no country of the world has 3
government ever been known to end
eavor with no other object than to
satisfy the caprices of aquilleno func-
tionaries, who make their debut wit
hout qualifications neither with a
knowledge of the conditions nor
with any understanding f the duties
they are called upon to perform.
And SO everything goes, in absurd
and ridiculous confusion, nevertheless
there is serious side very serious
as we'll as sad because this admins
trative disorder is not an innocent
pastime Of the acolytes Of the congre-
CATION, but it IS a costly sport which
cannot DC IuIHfSnCu u lHelI servants
by people who are in ruin.
Now the press is taking up the pro-
test.
1t is not necessary for us to incorp-
crate ourselves in the movement be
cause we were the originators and the
one who first provoke d it.
Now the negligent ones see that the
evil affects US all; that it is as we said
at the beginning of our campaign,
that the consequences Of a monopoly
such as is being perpetratcd by the
printing Office, will have to be suffered
by all those who are engaged in the |
printing industry.
Over and above the material injury,
is the immortality which is being com
mitted in maintaining, in spite of opi
Mon and the wrong to public interests,
competing Industry which is the
fountain Of government extravaganza
and latently inspires distrust and well
founded fears
Already the question is firmly plan
ted in the land. that the Secretary of
Porto Rico, the most enthusiastic OF
the official typographers. will not
oblige himself to hear the complaints
but he must forego his affection for
printing, no matter how deeply rooted