BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-04-26
EDITORIAL


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We have. on iicgeni occasions.
spoken ~ terms u prose O. hose
poftoncsns ~ho lsNc Wy from ikeif
country devised io .hc mos, honorable
occupations. s.C,f from politics and
united IN claiming whai belongs to
their country. Hpcn he acts oi that
League Z pairilis Which Is Somethin.
akin 10 the condeu> G. = q the porto
rican spun; IN The Immense city o. New
York. and Subsis;s The mCIc grancly
and more purely. when the conduc; OF
the Nation In the colony Is the more
unjust and abusive.
On tnis accoun, the attitude Of those
poTtoricans who have been able 20,
make themselves understood, living
in strange community con.ounded
with the natives OF the North, IN the
very centre Of ,hat great and popul
Gus city which is the glory of the
United States is SOW more resolufe
not 10 admit the existence of that sup-l
criorty which some towards In the
colony admit. nor room for the indie
ated fusion Of G ne with the olher;
hat which we ought to seek is the
harmony. the codialty and the love
between the two peoples, and that
cannot be achieved otherwise than by
mutual respect and the observance of
that consideration which the United
States owes us.
Those portoricans understand that |
what has been given under the name |
OF americanization, is nothing else than
a forced and violent annlhilation of the |
native people, and hence results that |
attitude which merits our praise aud |
the concurrence Of th ,se good ameri |
cans who do not aspire to live upon
the ininiquitous exploitation of a poor
island
The very existence Of that League
is in itself formidable assertion, is
a protest gains the inpious COLOMBIA
tion policy which the national COVER
ment is exercising here, and makes
more bardensome the 'mogrebino'
functionaries which the United States
has for export
The existence # that League may
be consid red sufficient.
1t signifies tn t something abnor-
NAL and monStrous is being com
mitted against the colonists when por
toricans are rot allowed 0 associate
themselves together, to claim some
lite respect fof democracy and for the
republic, 50 near TO- the government
which is Al faut and whence the anne
rican people can hear their protests.
If the fu1ctionaIies whom we have
here were not SO mu given to eXpe
rimental methods they would long ago
have understood what the League of
patriots means on III national stage,
it is a vehement aud just outcry which
the people Of Porto Rico sends forth,
complaining and protesting against
the injusticcs, the abuses and the stu
pidities
1t is that League which the most
representatives of this
country 10 New York are forming, as
the decisive notice, the explici: ma
the open declaration that
the portorcan people asks, desires. (
needs autonomy; right where they
might be engulfed in the surges Of all ,
sacrificing their charac
teristic personality. they do not it, but {
instead associate themselves for de
fence. How Car, il be that if the exam
pie shown them by true americans,
by those who have standing by those {
who have achived success in that
and are not held for export,
is not sufh> lent to convince the few
portorcans VIII live there that all they
have and all they are IS bad how may
sach result be Obtained here by the
circle, the exported ad-
venturers, the sinister ad COATES of
c expansionism which may change an
entire country in its sentiments and
in all that it is and in all that consti
tutes its typical figure to condition
where tyranny sacrifices nations. all
of personality end all of haracter1.
That is absurd The Porto Rican
League proclaims the necessity Of au-
tonouy. the 1ieCeSsi1y OF living in