BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-06-21
EDITORIAL.

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ned a. great exsense.
Common sense appears 10 have
,riumphed in the Cni.d States
Nov the underwriting c iierion is NJ
longer maintained. whi,h pretended
10 regard everything North American
as iniallible. and sang the excellsncies
of methods and ancient systems DIS
carded In latin countries.
The interfering on The part OF the
State with the workneu. the trader
AID the MERCHANT il a monumental
failure. The New York paper recog-
nizes and proclaims It.
Each Of the official centres is
converted into business ofice. which
is prejudicial to the general welfare,
as we'll as q means Of foment
ing extravaganee aud misgoveTnment
in the great Republic. And while
that occurs, while the funtionaries prac-
tise stupid and costly industrial expe
riments public matters are neglected
and completely abandoned.
The people p4y double the budget
is increased. the deficit constantly
grows larger. the economic disturban
ce is more pronounced. and in this
way the country travels along the
road which leads to bankruptcy; and
at the same time an incapable aud
srasping bureaucracy is being crea
ted, foreign to the proceedings which
actuate progress and good government
and serve as an aid to economic or
ganism In country.
1t would seem almost as il the
Evening Pos" had been inspired by
the situation created in the colony by
bureaucra tic abuse.
The state of affairs in the colony is
nearly identical with that in the
nation. though our condition may
truly be SAID to be worse, wing to the
reduced and limited means by which
our industries live Combatted by the
interference of the functionaries.
From all this we deduce a radical
and logical consequence. IN view OF
the fact that our conclusions must not
be construed as hostile, for in the very
bosom of the nation there have been
maintained with admirable and loyal
frankness declarations which in the
colony have forced upon US the ex
COMMUNICATION Of anti amcrica nism, the
aquiEeno journalists and the ameri
cans who sell themselves acting as
acolyteS at the ceremony.
All this can now be affirmed with
out a sin being committed. since 1t
has now been said in the nation:
the State must be separated from
business life; public administra ton
must be maintained free from contact
with industrial proj cts in order to
avoid the injuries which general in
terests would suffer from the interfer-
ence of the functionaries in spheres
which ought to remain absolutely un-
touched by bureaucratic influences.
Ii is impossible, as our New York
colleague SO truly says. to properly
attend to outside business and the
public service at the same time,
therefore, it is necessary II each one
to devote himself exclusively to the
duties and labors which have been |
con6ded to his care.
Mr.. Post should understand this, and |
it ought not to be overlooked by Mr.. |
Todd and our ineffable city fathers.
who would do well TO read and ponder
over the article in the important daily |
10 which we are referring.
The Ayuntamiento has had to re-
surrect municipal patentes on account
of the cspricious idea of having a
municipal pharmacy and other exces
SeS of the same kind
In order to excuse this excess. they
make the necessity of copying amer
lean methods and following the mea
sures adopted in the nation.
Now is the appointed time for max
ing the necessary pruning in the inex
tricable forest IN which the rights o.
citizens are confused and mixed with
the abuses and misdeeds of function
aries. who find in what is vicious and
archaic in the system, an atmosphere
suited to the realization of their selfish
caprices and oft repeated injustices
1t is necessary to abandon these in
inrio,1s l,ractises which oniniOn con