BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-12-26

The title speaks of Justice, and the
text of perfidv, Of liqrldat on, cf des-.
poiliatlon for the cciorists, of business
| for the traders and merchants, tor the
American trusts.
Above, the foliage is green; below
and hidden is the treacherous abyss.
In all those articles and paragraphs
| the same thing is asked for as if it
were the miraculous panacea for the
cure of all our ills, instead of being
wrong to ask it and fatal to concede it.
What is eternally asked for is the rev.
ocation of the law amendatory to the
Organic Act limiting the amount of
lands which corporations may acquire
in Porto Rico to five hundred acres.
To this is reduced all the petitions
for justice, solicitation for making
easy and smooth the road for the ex-
ploitations Of the trusts.
What hidden and sinistre hand
slips between eighty million human
beings, the crafty, traitorous demand
of mercantile monopolists?
Who advises that Justice should be
dashed from her august throne and
proslituted to the base uses of selfish
business?
Who has said. who has affirmed,
who has investigated so that it can be
known thst what we want and need
is the abrogation of that wise and far
seeing law SO necessary for our prot
ection and which for seven years has
rendered us immune from the cru
elites aud voraciousness of the trusts?
This insolent trea cherry, this con-
Itemptible Disregard, this discovery,
should have opened the eyes OF our
politicians and warned them that they
were not being deal with fairly in
this question as well as in other i'm
portaut matter which have a very close
relstion 10 the one under considera-
ton.
But our politicians have closed their
eyes to the real facts; with inconsciona.
bic simplicity they have believed thin
gs that are perfectly reconized by OF
hers to be snares and treacheries.
Our politicians have comprehended
and learned nothing; they act as if
they had nothing to lose by being ind
ifferent to everything, to the supreme
and astonished indications Of surprise
shown in the alarm of the country.
which they acknowledge with nothing
more than slight Struggling Of the
shoulders and figures of speech repe
lated with the monotoDy Of phono-
gra ph. II
Our politicians, or at least great
majority of them, seem to have totally
lost sight Of their mission and failed to
realize the tremendous responsibility
which they have before the people and
history at time when the colony is
in the midst of such grievous trials.
They have wasted their precious
time over things that are useless, ms
tead of preparing for the defence of
the Island against the treacherous
lasso which is being hurled against it.
The instant protests, the most un-
mistakable opposition which Porto Ri
co had right to expect from its polltl-
cal leaders, and which ere this should
have resounded in clarion tones in
Washington, have not been forth
coming and it even appears as if
there we're a guilty desire to allay and
quiet the general fears produced by
the instinct cf preservation and the
danger foreseen by the remarkable
intuition of our people.
Our politicians, like the gladiators
in the Roman arena, before dying,
implore and supplicate with poetic
and sentimental salutes the Caesar,
before the consummation of the vora-
cious sharing of the unfortunate CO.
lony.