BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-08-05
EDITORIAL

bic to concede to them the supreme
! faculty of uniting all the talents OF
! Organization and the ability of anslyz-
ling the Porto Rjcan psychology, dis
Towering it's necessities few hours
after their arrival in the island, which
appears to be more than sufficient tirse
| for these debutant Legislators to show
their superiority over the natives, who
have to contemplate, and petrifed
with astoniShment, bless the remarkable
work of the newly arrived redeemers.
That was the limit. The noisy
Iexaltation of the continentals over
their absolute disregard of the natives
Of country is preposterous.
It was an outrage on the people Of
Porto Rico SO evident. that opinion
fcould not countenance it and two pro-
mineut papers of the metropolis were
prom pied to fix their attention on con
lditions here.
Who kn ws as in the mother COUP
ftry7 Who has any knowledge of as
that approaches the truth and is not
based on the infamous calumnies cont
|ained in official reports7
Where can be heard the cry Of q
people demanding justice.
When the people attempted to
speak, its voice was throttled in the
Executive Council. The despicable
selishness disguised in an excessive
confidence kept alive an insensate di-
vision between the natives, division
whick governor like MT. Hunt knew
how to utilize for his own benefit.
Then there WINS the indifference Of
the mother country, the deadly indif-
ference that paid no heed to the out
rageous extremes; which even new is
ignorant of the geographical position
of Porto Rico, whether it is an inter-
tropical island. or part Of the Phillipi-
ne Archipelago, whether the people
are civilized or horde against whom
ought to be employed the measures of
which the continental indians arc the
victims.
That stubborn ignorance with res
pect to us and Of our island has come
to assume disasreeable consequences.
We are ignored, we are not
known at all. The missionaries Of
all the sectS come TO our shores as
if We were barbaric country, and ms
tead of confessing their error. instead
of declaring it was false, that the OPT
nion entertained Of as was absurd and
strange, they patronize us by extrava-
giant accounts of a manifest falsity.
they show us as in need of redemption
we who are in need of liberty.
When sometimes cry more 1cud, ,
or a protest more energetic, reaches
the; metropolis, its effects are counte-
racted by the treacherons methods Of
the congregation engaged in the busi-
ness of expansionism.
Now it appears that the heat of the
last few days has melted the ice.
Now the metropolis notices as, and
does not consider Our aspirations
unnatural taking into account the con-
ditions which srrroand us. A league
as been formed against Imperialism,
and the most sane portion of the
press, the most honest and the most
cultured. has separated itself from the
dangerous pantheisna which imposes
legislators on foreign peoples, that
Cypress them with the disregard of a
Caesar and provo kes conditions like the
present on a people who are the vict-
inns Of that colossal vanity. Such
require many criticisms like
the one in The New York Evening
Post" in order that the people in the
mother country may have clear and
erstanding as to what is transpiring