BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-08-07
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EDITORIAL

be restored to its former state of in
dustrial prosperity. The people can
mot consent TO the retention of those
| ignorant, exotic funciionaries, unfami-.
liar with all that relatesato the colony.
those superior beings that indulge in
blind attacks on our systems, against
our personality, against everything of
which they are in ignorance and which
they will never comprehend, certainly
not in twenty four hours-which is an
absurdity-nor were they to live here
for four or even six years.
Because people has bread, it need
not abandon its ideal of saving from
annihilation and expansi onisn cultu-
re and personality which possesses
true worth and is in many respects
superior to that of the metropolis.
If the President is ali wise, as the
|"Evening Post" ironically says that he
is, he ought to know the value of what
we have said, and he also ought to know
that those torpid functionaries who are
sent to us cannot be educators of peo-
pie whose knowledge and intelligenceis is
of a higher order than theirs, that can
give them many lessons as has been
proved by the history of american
colonization, which has been a Sc
ries of recti6cations, a colonization
rendered useless by contumacious
bureaucracy which will not resign it
self to giving up once and for all the
indiotic role Of redemptionists which
it fills in manner so stupid and un-
fortunate, that it has as yet received not
the slig ltest applause nor the faintest
gesture of approval.
If those .functionaries who come to
the colony were men able to make
living in the metropolis, we would not
accept them as educators and masters,
they would at most have been rivals;
but that aggregation of imbeciles
which expansionism has dumped upon
us, that mediocre class with no legiti-
mate claims to distintion, without ac
credited competency; that mercenary
con ngregation forming trust Of re-
den1ptionism for the liquidation of
peoples; that outfit, which like leeches
has been fastened upon the colony,
must be given its congo Immediately
and returned to the obscure places
from whence it came and has
always lived; and for those of lower
grade who are transplanted to the CO.
lony and secure posts in the govern
ment service with a preference Which,
IS irritating to the natives, n scmc c,
ses attaining heights which they never
dreamed of in the widest deliriumS of
sleep when they we're worthy workers
in Louisiana, industrial failures in
Chicago, or simple politicians cast ad-
trif by the uncertainties of chance.
Does not the gideon of the portori-
can press also comprehend it?
And it should note in this amplifi-
cation of the admirable article in the
Evening Post" upon which it COM
mentcd SO unhappily on Saturday, our
desire to see it reach even the heights
of our old friend The New York Sun -
in the study of our affairs and prob
lens, for it is too much to hope that
it will ever reach the sphere of impar-
tiality, or be able to fully apprecia
te anothers value and merit which
is reflected in the writings of the
Evening Post" which makes its tell
ing attack from high educational
plane taking the correct form of po-
lished irony, which is too subtle for
the understanding of aquillene jour-
nalists and imported functionaries.