BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-06-19
EDITORIAL
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Winthrop gives gEound ios frc'h hore-.
Mr Wsnsh.ops arrival IA the capital
of The Nation viii be oppcrune.
When the President needs TO be given
inf rnsaiion to1cking the state of
affairs Ia pc-So Rico. when he WISHES
written memorials st&ilng specifically
the grounds of complsivi this people
has the arrival Of the Governor. tron
whose lips the Presiden; may hrsi
profound and painful truths. could not
bs more timely.
As TO what cur frs; authority ought
to say 10 the chief Magistrate Of til,
Nation. there canno: be the slightest
difference Of opinion.
The accusation of a feeling OF anti
americauism in the colouy is without
foundation in fact. il does not exist
against the americans. and Mr.. Winth
rop should tell the Pr sident SO, repe at
ing what was xaid to him by Mr.. Lar
rinaea, the same as we should say. the
same az all;the people would say were
they consulted by means Of a plebiscite.
There arc awaiting Mr.. Roosevelt
some very painful moments. listening
to our Governor, who. in order 70 be
sincere and to satisfy the great expsc-
tations of this people will have to con-
fess the total and absolute failure OF
the american policy.
This time the official misrepresenta-
tion which has been the cause Of des
potism being enthroned in the colony
and the complaints Of portoricans
being ignored will be rectifed by the
voice of truth. whose accents the Pre-
sident will not be able to distrust.
So when he hears that the suffocat
ing bureaucratic tyranny is annihilat-
ing all the portorican energiss: that
the regimen with its ilrestible centra
.lization has been converted into a
halter which is being used to drag us
to the brink of precipice. and TO the
abysmal depths below; that the func
tionaries have violated the organic
law in its most liberal provisions. in
order to convert it into cause OF
incurable disaffection towards the
mother country; when he unders-
tands that we are living in COM
plete state of feudalism. and that
the Heads of the insular Departments
are veritable lords of the manor; when
he know, that what app arS most Ii
beral and advanta geous in An economic
view: free trade, has been falsihed by
deceitful rulings IN an unprecedented
way, has been conve erted from regl-
men of free exchange into an injqui-
tous basis Of exploitation and into a
cause of catastrophe ruin; when he
hears it said. notwithstanding the
emanations from hired pens and
aquilleno paragrapbers in the island,
that the collective spirit of the people
is against the stupid colonization
practised by the redemptionists OF ex-
pansionism, which has sdcmoralized the
whole country and prej,diced its inte.
rest: when he understands that in the
public Offices portoricans have been
made puppets Of, and that the excticS
occupy all the posts which should be
allied by natives; when all these things
reach the ears of the President and
Mr.. Roosevelt realizes that all the re-
courses and means possible to utilize |
have been employed 10 muzzle the press
and to silence the indignant voice of
protest, as well as gag public opinion.
perhaps the Supre me Magistrate of the
great Republic will feel tinge OF
regret for having confessed his ignor-
ance of such great wrongs. such gross
a abuses against country without means
of defence of SO much exploitation
of poor island.
There are opportunities which seem to
have been sent by Providence, happy
and redeeming chances which surpass
the most admirable provision of pru-
dence.
Mr.. Winthrop goes at time when
MS presence in Washington cannot
fail to be of inestimablec benefit TO the
colony, at the moment when his de
clarstio may be its salvation.
And from that springs a great ex-
pectation and stimulates feeling of
general confidence.
The island trusts that the time has
at last arrived when the frank and
manly voice Of truth may be heard in
the nation.
The difficulties of the attempt at
are not hidden from Us.
The work confded to the nobility of