BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-04-11
EDITORIAL.

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funcsi0nalseS and ;se costly hcg.ld oi
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That Wa the cnly ,hirs ,hs was
lacking.
The Tnuors wkich arc circulating
on ike subject are no a ali C0mplim
onisTy 10 those 90 called public as
Dirisir5torS.
The New" la incorporated Ia be
printed by the government /, will
De q daily. irliy official NV that the
bulge, susisans H. Ne will have the
inef .ble satisfaction of seeing des-
ignated Ia future budgets an approp
ration for the maintenance OF the
great oracle which will be the voice
of all those officials who have impos
cd upon the County, the injustice Of
the Foraker law aud at the same time
will serve for the defence Of those
providen tial men.
The officials need newspaper TO
defend them, but it would be better
were it true that they needed DO such
defense which they CO mot get II any
way from those dailieS that are sup
ported by public opinion.
1t would be better for them. as we'll
as for the country for them to modify
those foreign ways that disgust the
people to such an extent and in that
way they would find in those papers
which 10 day refuse it, the aid which
they need as is shown in the endeavor
to resurrect the News.
The News can avail nothing with
the Porto Rico people. Inspired by
officials, it will be lampooned as the
enemy of Porto Rico which will make
more hateful the present odlous ad
minlstratiOn -:
Where the News goes we Will also
go. When it attempts % conceal and
cover up official bIunders we will
follow and state the truth fcarlessly
that il may be known by the energy Of
our accent, by our opposition that we
are rejecting public opinion and that
IN It's name we are ralslng the voice OF
protest.
If it is pretended that the inharno-
NOUS trum pet of the News shall shut
out with its blasts the voice that comes
from all directions demanding justice,
that pretension will be useless.
The truth will always prevail.
Above the pens ot the hireiiugs will
flash those that are moved by the i'm
pulse Of the ideal, that are lifted in
defense OF justice.
1t will be useless for the News to
search for excuses Or en- leavOr 10
defend the conduct of the Collector Of
Customs towards the merchants, that
functionary endowed with IN IMPULSE
We aggresslveness who pers~cutes the
merchants and causes the customs
revenues 10 be diminished thus injur.
ing our treasury, it will be absurd for
it TO attempt to justify the conduct of
the Commissioner of Education who
deports himself something like Bey
of Tunis, but nevertheless takes upon
himself the right to speak about de-
1nocracy and education as if he were
the bearer of some new evangel; and
il will not do for it TO pretend that Mr..
Willoughby can play footba il with the
reform OF the mortgage law, or that
Mr. lost is capable of justiyrg the
maintenance:ol a government printing
press. notwithstanding which, he' could
not prevent the BOLETIN from obtain
ing at public bid The printing Of the
laws III Spanish.
Far frsm serving 10 correct faults,
the resi- rrected News converted into
an organ for the defence of the
government, will be great incubus of
excessive weigh; upon which without
doubt there WI be employed several
thousand dollars belonging to the
budget, because it is not reasonable
supposition that the 1nsular employees
are going to incur the necessary
expense Of its maintenance from their
own pockets
The gross excesses. high handed
acts and the misbehayiOI of these Of