BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-08-28
EDITORIAL.

lings nor the most servile adulations
should cause surprise if committed
| by those wko have surrendered pa
ltriotism for the miserable salary Of a.
domestic servant. eE 2biCsB
! That is the newspaper and those are
the people who defend, appa rently
with estate love feasts, the miracle of
americsnization as provided for by the
Foraker Act.
That is to say the radical and abso-
lutte liquidation of that which forms
the island, the people and the country,
| by virtue of the expulsion or death of
the first and the attachments of the
latter in favor Of the adventurers viii
ch the policy of expansionism has
thrust upon the colonies.
That is all that remains to the gov
eminent. The advertisement of tax
sales. Because THE Eagle" is now
neither a Republican paper. nor any
thing; it represents nothing; it is SIM
/ ply as we have said before: and an
nouncer of tax sales
Did it not attack the Assembly of
Municipalities, when at that assembly
csngregated republican city-counil-
men, and when it was organized by
the municipality of San Juan3
Did it not reach the very height of
besmirching when it ridiculed the me
mortal of that great assembly of Por-
to Ricans fromed without regard to
politics or political opinion?
Then whom does this paper repre-
|sent, what does it stand for in the
concert of the press of the island?
Before it can look sor services, let
1.-The government expect friction and
discredit from this hired paper.
IF it attacks autonomy, if it feigns
fright on hearing independence spoken
Of, it is because those hired pens know
very we'll that if they should espouse
that, (autonomy) tina with a different
regime, another system, and other Of
6cials, there would not be such an
abundance of tax sales, and lacking
tax sales, there would be no newspa-
pers of the type of The Eagle.
+ That is the principal part; and fer
this reason we emphasize it, because
it is necessary that it be known who it
is that attacks the formation of a gov
ernment of the country, for the Coun-
try, and what motives so mean and
illegitimate impel it to make coward'y
attack.
l. is evident that, if within the vita
ted atmosphere and Of absolute irres-
possibility created by the redemption
lists, we were to place native officials,
hey would fail They would fail also,
fail inevitably, on account Of the incli-
nation 10 err inherent in all men and
all races; but to correct that tendency
and to evade the .amentahle down falls
that are assured under the primitive
improvisation of the anglo-saxon sys-
tenn; the latin systems, which this
people knows and which it has enjo-
we'd, very evident and we'll recognized
superioritieS.
Let the scandals that have occurred
in the United States be compared
with those of the latin races.
Do they mean nothing to this hired
paper7.
VIII it not speak of the superiority
of our methods? Of the good of cur
|systems9
1t is there that we have to begin. BY
reconstrucling what insanity has des'
troyed, supplanting it with the wron-
fgly named innovations that have res
ulted, if viewed inpartially. as pri-
mitive. FOSSIL practices, already dis
credited among cultured nations for
many centuries. !.
Of this great truth the island is
already convinced, The Eagle alone
remaining obdurate, and it IS pot be
cause it is soaring at great attitudes
that it cannot hear the voice of men;
it is because The Eagle is exotic
Here there are no Eagles