BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-06-09
EDITORIAL.

Now Il - the Na.neNw NhafuAeg -
N..mrsts.,t saa4sshsA ~ A3nals.
~hsek IS aFnr4 ssnttg and ~hrh IA
s4szHeca j beNN. Un ssacsae%n sntf
ekAnaisc a ssg sltAiioa 81 the Naoatn-
UrS employed zEsinSs ihe cAA@ess.
~aoNe lgap1ftzncr IN the Arcscpeasgo
IA sasce gu lac TcCkorVa ~alk.
Some Nv Tosk p~psFs state the
occurrence without eoucedsng a. i'm
x,ossance ~ II the action ken pos
seSsea no significance aud mcuied
no.hins more lh~n the mos; profound
disdSin. although the attitude os the
s0aS u the Celestial empire Is the To-
giczl result of the descrin lnstion prsc-
tised agains, them.
There was a time when the chinese
would not have adopted SO drastic
measure, but conditions have changed
and the altered circumstances have
rendered il necessary for the chinese
residents in the Philippines and their
neighbors, the japanese, TO be factors
10 be taken int0 consideration by the
americans in their projects for colo
nizing in Asia.
Before the chinese boycot. worse
one for North America had been an
nounced.
1t is the boycoi Of South America.
the blockade Of latin America.
And for this, az in other cases. the
people on the continent must blame
the functionaries who SO outrageously
discredit their country abroad.
Those representatives who do little
.mcre thaa spread disaffection and TO-
1nent i'll feeling.
To the countries which they invade
<hey carry the SO called progress OF
americenization through fire and blood
which arouses all the iastincts OF self
preservation in the people to whom
they are accredited, as has been de-
mon strated by the present condition OF
affairs in Manila, and befocs', the attl-
tude Of the people in Venezuela. IN
Santo Domingo and in Columbia.
Il is not necessary to search further,
for we have before us the last article
written by the Commissioner Of Edu-
cation for the special issue Of 1.-The
Porto Rico School Record
In this work, MIR. Falkner expresses
himself with astonishing tranquility.
Speaking of the system of latin
instruction and cf that which North
America has, the grand democrat says
with seraphic piacidness truly mo
wing, that We do not understand, mel
ther are we understood.
But he hopes that IN time these dl-
fferences will be harm onized and that
as a result, higher Intelligence will be
reflected in thee masses OF the people
In order to accomplish this, II ap-
pears as if it were going TO be nscessa.
ry to suppress that which is latin and
to sacrifice the portorican individual
lity.
1t it recommended that cooperation
is desirable which we presume is anot
her way of saying that the last vestlge
of what we have had in the way Ct pu-
bile education will disappear. And al
though our methods are not unders-
TODD by them, nor theirs by us, We
are expected to believe that oy accep
ting theirs, all the barriers to com
pete understanding will be removed.
Mr. Falkner is certainly the most
apostolic of the democrats Of expor-
tation.
Because it is impossible to conceive
of frankness more primitive, nor de-
sire more certain TO produce dlscon-
tent.
Does it mean. because we do not
understand them, nor they us. and
without having an intelligence which
it is impossible to achieve, that the
brutal remedy is proposed of suppress
ing what we have7
Is that the sort of respect which
those democrats of expansionism bring
to guard people1
Is that the way that the invaders
must behave towards a civilized
country whose civilization antedated
theirs1
1t is for such reasons that the cur
rents of antipathy and i'll feeling are
produced of which the action Of the Chi
nese Chamber Of Commerce is sign,
the scandalous and ruilous effects OF
the Dingley tariff.
That is why expansionism has pro-
we'd failure.
1t has proved failure. not only
because of the stupidity and unscrul
ulousness of the functionaries. but in
a greater degree to the policy OF the
Dingley tariff which is at once bruta
r.