BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-05-11
EDITORIAL

n .sc ssfieic ~ ~. Noglaaa gsasrNtag
Il i1f u dsN.
Neatiatns "a sssi sNpst >sls..a.
With 6lix ne ninf WITH inaniir ei'
ternCss. because /. sprcads shfo@a iah
enlargement and despair. rfocasssas
cyn,c4srns aud insu'ts consseFaics -
fnwiceS asa uSnrpa;ions
IL IA a. unnecessary confession os .
fact a. which ne one - ignosar; III,
xhich acquires tic grcAseSi inSolcncc
whrs l. proclaimed without rcpcn-
iasscc. As h,ing virtue. ;hs; which is
crime aud a SIN. as being a source
of gratitude in the colony. ;ha; whsch
IS ve,ii@blc aud m,n>iTou. offence.
SAYS Mr. Corbia. condcnSing into :
fcw words the Creates insult hat be
IS able 10 thrust 10 The face Of the co.,
snisis. The civil servants are II tie
best and cleauesi class OF Americans.
-sHS merr ls.rSi be Ssr<
And this appears IN : paper publis
he'd in the nation. This : said by a
man who a few paragraphs later on
iHvokes the grand principles upon
which the american constitution is ba
sed; this, Mr. Corbin says, without
(tt<tlli1uks NiAHOdl S4lI lldl Sn
phrase aimed al the government
which permits the despoilation and
authorizes the abuse against the natl
YES.
But, what hope Since the sane Mr.
Corbin says in the next line: and sT0r<
cannot b. SAD.
By this he meaus to say that every
body in the colony is satisfied with
what these exotic employees do, that
ahey have convinced the natives that
they are not worthy of administering
their own interests, since they do not
protest against strangers being placed
over them that the inferiority of the
colonists is so great aud SO fatal that
the civil service is good because the
continentals have it in charge and he
means 20 say also that the imported
functionarieS have no equals in the
world for administering the affairs Of
far away peoples t. the satisfaCt ion of
everybody, Of themselves and Of the
natives, because if they are inaugurat-
ing reforms aud constant changes in
their methods, in their various systems
and even in the vasl, changes and
reforms which at first provoked quar-
rells and criticisms, very soon they
became accustomed to the innova tons,
AS Mr. Corhin pretends to believe
without other trouble for the people
than that Of having had to become
familiar with absurd methods, with
an archaic system, and primitive laws,
which now these democrats would like
to assimilate to the ancient but highly
humanitarian laws of the lndjas
The article in "Leslies Weekly is
filled with errors similar to the ones
to which we have called attention, but
we do not wish to waste time over
them withou first making to stand out
clear cut and distinct in all its naked
coarsenc IS, that expression about ~hl-
ch we have been thinking since yes
terday.
Because if what Mr.. Corbn says is
the criterion Of the government, as is
said in the note which accompanies the
publication of the article, we now have
as the burden Of what we have lmpo- |
sed upou ourselelves, by necessity and
patriotism to tame and TO educate |
such funtionarieS as are sent US from |
the continent, those same ones of
whom Mr Corbin says that because |
they are americans: mOre eann0t be
said
Well hardly, since we have said
things about these functionaries Of the
hecatombs.
And our homilies, which always ha-
We had useful indications, have often
caused pallor on the countenances Of
those men, who in the conception
of the writer in "Leslies Weekly
are ineffable in sense far different
from that which we give to this ad-
jective when we apply it 10 these
tunctionaries.
An excess Of misguided patriotism
has directed the duh pen which con-
fessed the above without the sli2hte~t
contrition; on this account the abuse
of threatened exotics is the more
deserving of censure. of repression
and Of criticism, because egoism is
manifested in it and is proclaimed
with a shamelessness which insults
the downtrodden condition of the
colony.
Are there no more words to be
said7
How many, which God grant this