BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-08-26

If Mr.. Haeselbarth does wrong in
sending to the papers of the United
States insolent and misleading articles
regarding the people of Porto Rict
those papers do worse in having for
their correspondent in the island an
official who draws salary OF twenty
| four hundred dollars year from the
insular treasury.
The reports of Mr.. Haeselbarth
could not we'll be different, they are
naturally in tune with all the rest Of
the continental orchestra which obeys
the baton Of Mr. Post.
In the correspondence sent to 'The
Syracuse Herald" it is evident, as a
matter of course, that the writer is
exercising the role which he thinks
he has right to assume.
We do not care to enter upon dis
cussion of this very sad right, nor is it
our desire to disparage the one that
exercises it; but the aquilleno cores
pondent ought to realize that it is not
ip such a manner that he should act
towards the people who maintain him,
neither is it graceful nor sppreciative
way cf returning the favors Of coun-
try which gives him salary. nor fair
attitude towards those papers which
in all probability give him a salary
also.
He is guilty of unpardonabe dislo
valty and places himself in an attit-
ude of insolence which merits nothing
but condemnation in his attempt to
give false idea of portorican opinion,
seeking to belittle and make ridicu-
lous the noblest sentiments inspired
by the most ardent and sacred patrio-
tism of people.
The desperate defence of salary
which he ought not draw, while there
are portoricsns who are dying of
hunger, or that have to emigrate, is
not Sufficient reason. proper cause
no motive to wound public senti
ment in the colony and in the
mother country by causing to be pu-
blished ISLANDERS which appear to be
instigated by blind antlpathy and
frenzied revenge.
1t appears as if the portorican peo
pie and the american people had
arranged compact. for the main
tenace of puffed up nullities.
Mr.. Hseselbarth knows that is not
so. That neither exists such COM
pact, nor is the day remote in which
he and mis- companion n the congre
cation will have to rew3-n 20 The mo
ther country to enter into the struggle
with citizens equal of rights with them.
even very superior in abilities and at =
tainments, as has been demonstrated
by their not thinking of coming here
to dispute with the natives the dest1-
nies which are theirs, taking advanta
pc of preferences which american CT
tizenship unjustly consents to in a
country which is not their own.
We have sounded the Ieveille, and
the bureaucrats pretend not to have
heard it, but some more insolent than
others dare openly to disobey the
summons. to resist it and even dispute
it, denying the right of the country to
give the order for them to get out.
And even more, he threatens with
reprisals which would be nothing more
than new brutalities of despotism ad
ded to the many which have d!shono-
red american colonization. -:
Let US touch lightly on some of the
expressions contained in the CORES
pondence upon which We are com :
menting, such as those which repre-
sent the members cf the great assem-
bly, of municipalities hOaplfmg against
the american government and its me
thods.
HoqOling is a Characteristic of vol.
yes, and the natives of a country who
carry their complacency to the point
of consenting to the presence of
exotics who displace them on their