BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-04-15
EDITORIAL.

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iAcrc estAhlishcA ptusuGnd ciiisFcnce
l,~swocn a. and those soO~i.h disciples.
and by cur .tzansneSS &c 10 no; lose
ihc moacss pro;cClion. almost oiheisl
whica ~ can az, y. without oiienoe -
ourselves and Which can he Ufscfcd
without insult
TIE Collector 81 Customs subscribed
Yesterday "a she 'Bol,;in paying a
three months subscription. IN advance
which has produced II us 4 doub;
which va have solved IN he manner
most in harmony with our opinion.
Has iae ipeifable Collector wished
to convey the impre SSion that by subs.
cribing for three mouths 10 the Bo
letin' W will have 10 suffer three
month more'
Because the terms governing the
subscription are somswhai mysierio-
US, as corresponds with the rite Of
that aggravated congregation which
has MIR. Hunt for Its honorary and
lifelong patriarch.
The emisssry OF the Collector. VIII m
we fancy spoke in behalf Of his chief.
asked If we would have TO continue
our attacks and in view Of our answer
requested that his subscription be en-
tered for three months. ~
Perhaps this period, which someti-
mes may seem equal to moment and
at other times interminable, is as long
as the Collector Of Customs thinks he
has the power TO resist, should Our
campaign continue.
Three months
Could we devote the time which we
need fol greater enterprises TO the
study of the strange psychology OF
each one of the impls nted funtionarie lie S
whom whe have in the Island the Co
Hector of Customs ought to be the sub.
iect first chosen for examination,
But We have notably reduced and
simpliied the analysis of anthropo-
logy
We nave con ndensed the work inclu
ding In group all those tuntlonarleS
in whom the essential quality is aggre
siveness a la Hunt Occasionally the
genus varies. but only with slight mo
difcations which do not alter the cla
ssifcation of the anthropological type
to which the group belongs.
For this reason the gcnealogy Of the
Collector requires very little thought.
May be he does not mean to defy US
nor declare thc period during which
the blockade of the customs revenues
can last
1t may be that he aspires to repair
the robe of dem Ucracy recently torn TO
shreds by Mr. Falkn,r and he
wants to give lesson TO the chief of
the department called Education q
1t may we'll be so, and in that case
the ocassion must be improved. since
the democratic bluff of the Collector
offers to the merchants an opportunity
of airing their grievances against the
existing state of affairs in the Custom
House, with the certainty that they
will be read b the Collector
Were all this not true why should
he subscribe for three months 10 the
BOLETIN2
What significant lesson in demo
cracy is given to Mr.. Falkner by the
delightful subscriber who has fallen to
u.s.
The censures, the criticisms of
paper which is read by thousands of
people cannot be received with indif-
ference. they must be respected and
considered.
By way OF thanks for this very
timely lesson which an unhappy Coz
lector of Castoms has known how to
give to a Commissioner of Education
we have not wished to apply the spe
cial prices which we make for those
functionaries who may contemplate
subscribing to the BoLETIN with the
object # learning very necessary les
sons in all branches of public admi
nistration and Of hearing what we
desire to tell them with reference to
their frequent mistakes and short
cOmings.
FROM what has been said it will be
seen that the Collector of Customs is
not an advocate of rnp!Hyed rTIS-
items. on the contrary, he is target
for their criticism, possibly with the
wish to learn from their attacks on his
unusual methods things that he ought
to know should he elect TO prolong his
sojourn in the colony for more than
three months.
Very likely he will, from day to day,
- LyxkT H.