BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-11-20
EDITORIAL

It was difficult among the inextrica-
Bile medley of opinions. of the various
and divers points of view, of the
strange and curious state m nts place d
in picturesque disorder by the cores
pondent of "Harpers Weekly" to di-
vine the purpose of that campaign and
to discover the object at which Mr..
tTyler directed-we will not say his
shots-his sensational fire works.
1t was said to us in beginning that the
above correspondent had been sent 10
/ us owing to the desire of great me-
|tropolitan Journal to ascertain the
exact status of affairs in Porto Rico.
Ii was natural supposition. There
was nothing strange in the wish of
that periodical to make known in the
mother country the treatment that
had been accorded to the colony, it was
in no sense a singulsr or extraordi-'
nary thing to do. But the tenor of
the articles, the tone they have taken,
forces US to the conclusion thatit was
not only to acquire and publish inform
alton that the journ list undertook the
work of treating of Porto Rican mat
tiers. but that he had other purposes
and objects in mind than the disin-
|terested and unselfish ones for which
we gave him credit.
Instead of a pen placed at the servi.
ce of the public interest, the one OF the
writer referred to seemed to be one
for hire, like some we have in the CO.
ony which are noted for their servi-
|lity and submission. their impotency
and truculent subserviency.
He repeats literally what has been
said by aquillene journals; he echoes
with servile exactness, phrases and OPT
mons that we have replied to at
other times, and adds that the voice of
the BOI<t,n is at present among the lo1-
9est hfted MP m the ch0roHs against as
In the chorous lifted up against ase
Then does Mr. Tyler consider himself
a functionary? Does he believe himself
to be a member of the congregation?
Is he an acolyte of the treasurer whom
he has eulogized several times. or a
servant of the continental bureaucra
cy, who has come to the island of ex-
periments to practise his journalistic
talents?
Does Mr.. Tyler feel that he is attac
ked through the persons of the func-
tionaries1
For if he does not. why does he say
in the chorous against u.s.?
When the Boletin has published ar
|ticles criticising the american press
and the people of the United States
which may have been trea- herous and
disloyal. has Mr.. Tyler believed that
he belonged in the same category,
that he says against rs?
Ia that chorons in which he recog
Inizes ours as the loudest voice there
has been no attack on the people of the
United State nor On honorable and
fair minded papers in the mother
country, neither has there been any
attack on the government when the
government h.s not deserved it,
nor have attacks been made for the
sake of finding fault.
In that cho1ous in which Mr.. Tyler
has recognized our voice as the loud :
est, it has been impossible to hear the
intoning of praises and false and
|hypocritical halle 1ujahs.
Papers like La Correspondence.
La Denocracia ,. "El Heraldo Esps
fiol," and BOLETIN MERANTIL could
not with any self respect say anythin g
different from what they have said
unless the methods IF colonization and
the treatment acc rded to the country
were to undergo a radical change.
And that chorous composed of the
above named journals, in that cho
rous in which the correspondent OF
"Harpers w ky heals the voice OF
the BoLETIN ras d the loudest, is lift
ed rp in behalf # the people. it is not