BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-05-06
EDITORIAL

1t&cNAfksnE SNa fEitsfN F&tsNs
"a tie ssrse wag shat he SUPPRESSED
&c Raaa Re-rsas hc new WISHES 'el
treat the Archsse.
ave do know wkc.hcr oar Fca
arrS recall lac origin Il the anispa;hy
whsch Mr.. Ellio, feels for everything
tha. il native. II they do ro,. wel
will refresh shcir memories ~ that
,hev may be able - Judge the conduct
az ,hA, iunciionafy. wkcsc abilities
need no, be envled by any Of the mo-
crebinos wko foil " the Roghi.
The affsir occurred as follows:
Mr.. Elho; was journeying along the
road beiween JunooS and San Loren
40 Recent rains had decpened and
oserfowed the bitches. obs,ruc;ing the
thoroughfare and making il difficult
for horsemen.
There is nosdocumen;ary cvidence 10
prove the competency of MIR Elliot rs an
equestrian, neither do the chronicles
state whether his horse was very spi
rited; but il is certain that there he
suffered his first falls. on that road
filled with dangers and that the intre-
pid excursionist came out sunscathed
thus saving a memorial tablet with a
cross. at that spot where he had his
three mishaps.
Time pa ssed. Wings of fortune
blew favorably for the unfortunate
Knight, very likely he returned to his
country Nursing the secret joys of
vengeance. thinking upon reprisals as
compensation.
And he returned converted into a
Commissioner.
His FIRST act. The. suppression of the
Roads Boards.
OF what use are they, if they can
not prevent the rains from forming
holes aud ditches2 what are they good
for, if they cannot save; the doughty
Knight from kissing the sacred soil?
The measure could not have been
more just, more wise. nor more
exemplary.
BY suppressing the Boards Of Roads
there could be no more fears of rains
or bitches along the thoroghfares. All.
nothing like being a continental and
functionary to have such divine ms
pirations.
And possibly Mr. Elliot has concei-
we'd an identical plan with the Archi
We. perhaps he was searching in vain
for some public document, lost through
the carelessneSs Of a continental func-
tionary and the great Commissioner
evolved the idea as means OF saliva
tion.
What is the use Of an Archivo, if a
Commissioner does not know what it
is nor what it is for and what is its
signihcance2
And still there are those people who
paw little attention to the discussion
of the regimen. who indolently view
the atrocities which are already result
ting in crushing weight and are an
insult to the country which submits TO
them.
Because if we are to look for the
origin of all these anomalies; If we
dedicate ourselves to an investigation
which cannot be more easy nor sim
pie, we find the cause as soon as we
analyze the regimen, which IS the most
abyssjnian known.
A regimen which consents TO such
functionarleS, which has no more ap-
peal against conduct such as that of
Mr. Elliot, than to complain before the
government at Washington; that leaves
TO the caprices Of al exotic functiona-
ry the fate of native employees; re-
gimen in which the governor IS with
out means with which to oppose the
insensate acts IF an >guilleno functio-
nary; regimen which tolerates such
misuse of power. abuses and insults,
atrocities and misbe haviors. which as
we have said before converts each
commissioner into feudal lord
in his department, and rem
ders him irresponsibles and unans
werable befure the law, which
is not made for him. nor to punish |
his misdeeds; regimen such as we
have described is the greatest aifilction
which tyranny can impose upon
people; and the most gross insult to
the dignity Of a country.
We do not know in what tone, IN |
what words or in what manner our
protests against he imbecile occupants
of power are understood
We have condemned energetically |
and protested vehemeDtly against their
mischievous idiosynciacies. We have
spoken in all tones; from the suave
and persuasive of advice, the severer
of fn the cOf1u6Ju0