BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-02-06
EDITORIAL.

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shoSc who look rpau ags fuiusa lands
with criminal indifference.
liui already tatTc Affsc> . new
objection on TIC par ci he inirud,fs
and un ike par oi ihc beaten Teocls
whe VII not Cona.l.ie themselves q
their deserved defeat . new objection
dragged by the hair 81 ;ht nos;
perverted faith and # ios.C and IN
dishosor 10 him wAD conceived such
mean thoughts.
Ii IS said that II a loan is voted Tor
the coffee industry. one will also have
10 be voted for the other industries
And then. add 10 this unsni;lcpaied
siaiemen, that these industries should
not pay for loan contracted for the
= exclusive benefit OF The e flee people
Who susiains any o:hor argument;
Is il thought that The defenders of
the loan expect that aims be given TO
the coffee growers, raise d by popular
subscription
Nobody has made such defense,
nor wants il, nor accepts II.
The loan will be paid by the coffee
planters, as we have already said on
various occasions, and ia support of
our opinion Mr. Luchetti contends tho
same.
The aid that may be extended by
means of the loan will be paid, accord
ing to the amounts received with the
products of the plantations improved
through this necessary and effective
help.
1t is useless TO employ these miser-
able recourses, in order to MANAGE
those who have nothing to lose but
much to gain by the allurement that
they will have to pay for the money
which is loaned to the owners Of cof-
fee lands.
This has already been proven false:
it has been made clear.
1t is a groundless accusation aimed.
at the coffee industry; it is death
warrant for our principal wealth; It is
the same as decreeing the interment
of dying bodies in order to facilitate
the devastating work of death.
Our country lives, II has the same
strength and productive vlgor which
made its sons rich; our island IS the
same as Shen it was SO fruitful and so
rich, that if it were given just little
of the former care, II would be par
adise.
The loan will be paid with the
products cf the plantations, without In
creasing the rate Of taxation, as is
done every now and-the in order to
raise the salaries Of officials whom it
is unnecessary to ask from where they
come.
There remains to make clear the
childish and innocent pretext which
sles in sight the contracting of new
loans for the other industies.
Have the others asked for loau'
Do they need it,
This manner of placing obstacles in
the way of the realization OF work OF
justice is stupid; without any kind Of
reason; resorting to means SO poor,
false and fragile that they fall by
their own weight; means that, disap-
par like hadows, that live just long
enough 10 become public property,
for hardly, do they fall under an ana
lyssis, then they fall into disrepute
and cease to exist.
II is no longer said that the foreign
ers will carry off the money; nor
does any one say that it is necessary
to secure a loan for the other indus
tries.
What need have they Of such loan?
Have they asked for loan with
the desperation taat compelled the
coffee people to do so?
Does any other industry embrace
wealth SO general, so powerful and so
essentially necessary as cotfeef LablcsS
Are not all the Porto Rican products
protected by tariff excepting coffee2
Well, if it is true that coffee is the
only product that is alone, abandoned
and without any kind of protection, at