BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-06-20
EDITORIAL

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.san' conss1irr cs Mt,lrrgkt'y. FaA
nrs ard tiyncs NEhing las hsa
lid a shss cNoans.
NJ. winshrops gosng has aeen spo-
ken II hui II the sTsr - The Oa6clals
nothing has been ssid nesshcr iS sHy-
shins known.
As - customary. this iorrrey sp.
pears 70 have been planned an secse;
aud IL losks as II 4 ksd bccn under
izken with view 20 iheir being IN
the nation al the S2Ese time IS Mr..
Winthrop.
The funciionsries are nor able TO
rest their souls in patience. awaiting
here the result Of the interview bet
ween the President aud the Governor
And so they 90. as phsniorns. as
Shadowy specires. those three fuuctio-
nsries, which gives ground for the
we'll founded opinion thsi they wish
10 place before the President their
own false and misleading information.
This hostile element alway inter
poses itself between the colony and
the nation in order 10 make illfeeling:
always gagged in the occupation Of
.bailitf, 10 the miserable work of TO-
menting dissffeciion. always hostile,
occupying itself with stupid machina-
tions. which kills the hopes that we
had entertained that now we might
look for a change in official methods.
The congregation does not wish to
lose sight Of The Governor Thereto
re it sends three of its principal men,
bers. selecting those who have most
distinguished themselves in the cruss-
de against the colony, to counteract
all that may be said in Washington in
our faxor.
Sad mission of those men. dedica-
ted TO the perpetua tion Of tyranny
against people!
And it cannol be attributed to sus-
.picion. tkat which is logical conse-
quence of the lack of confidence which
those men inspire in the country.
This journey of the coterie might
be considered an accident, or fat,.l
coincidence but it does not so app>ar
nor Goes anyone believe in such coin
cidences, neither in accidents of that
kind.
The country has good reason to be
on the alert, and has fully justified
causes fer alarm.
The three travellers who left cur
shores to day. certainly inspire no
confidence. The disturbing clement
is Mr. Hynes, who from his ability as
an organizer of Boards. cannot fail to
inspire a certain expectant curiosity.
Mr.. Willoughby is the most cons
picuonS of the three, the r,lost enigma
tical Of the sombre group which goes
in pursuit of the Governor.
He is the man known as the grand
demorslizer, he who has ruined the
distilleries the mortagr law, and who
is the hero Of the forced sales of pro-
perty. The country has watched his
devastating course as if it were the
track of a cyclone.
The other is Mr.. Falkner. the ser
aphic Mr. Falkuer. who. like the king,
can do no wrong he who poses te.ore
the camera with his face wrealhed in
smiles, with an expression as if he
counted himself one ( the elect, as if
he were an apostle, which is one of his
apparent beliefs. The Tolstoi of the
expansionism, the erudite and mast
erly de6nor of Education and Demo-
cracy, as he understands the meaning
of the terms
After this brief review of the abb
lties and qualifications of the trave-
llers who leave US today, after EXPIRES
sing our suspicion of the real reasons
fer the journey. and our fears of their |
sinister schemes against the colony,
as well as their intention to justify |
the acts Of the congreg cation, it is not
or strange that We should
qualify the journey as a catastrophe
which concentrates and monopolizes
all the attention Of the country.
Il is pity that shadows should SO
soon come to darken the bright hopes
founded on the trip of Governor Win
hrop, that the results Of his interview
with the supreme Chief Of the nation
would be of signal benefit to the island
and lead to change in the present
-egimen.
BY Ill luck, hostile in nuences have in.
those functionsries who have
convc rted the island into feudalism,
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