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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
EDITORIAL

What work has been accomplished
which iustifes the importance of
festival
In that which has disturbed CO.
lonial life and destroyed its happiness7
Is it in the unfortunate actions of the
feudal lords who have upon their con-
tsciences-if thev have any-the respon.
|sibility for all these acts OF anarchy
and misgovernment which stand to
the everlasting discredit of the present
|regimep
Where are the evidences of any
performances with merit day of fes-
Rival and celebration? Where are re-
|sults?.
In these times and with these men
we are being given specta cles and
scenes, we are being treated to acts
which have sad significance and as
poets of mockery and derision.
We ksve day dedicated to the ce-
LIBERATION of the triumph of liberty of
Iothers; the festival of american ind
'ependence, we have the festival of the
Portorican Fourth of July-socalled by
some serviles-wnich is the date of the
invasion.
And we have Labor Day That is
to say that our political calendar is ap.
parently the same as that OF other
peoples, marks the Same dates, the
same days; but, what a difference in
the symbolism Of those days and
|of those dates!
When they tell as THAI it is the day
|of liberty and invite Us to unite our
voices to the choir whica in,ones songs
of gladness and rejoicings for the bles-
sings of free citizenship, by The ass
location of logical ideas there is forced
upon our mind the need of protest, as
well as the sad and painful memories
|of other days.
Yesterday it was the same.
Labor day is for US one of sadness
and mourning.
There comes to our mind the presen.
'cc of so much in the country brought
upon it by the functionaries, of the
distressing perturbations whi.h have
fallen upon the political and social
life of the colony; there comes to- cur
mind with all its overpowering force
the stupendous vision of all the
misery. of all the ruin that have been
thrust upon the ccunEIy, brewing
over it a mantle Of illusion which has
deceived the con6ding colonists, neces-
sitating the exodus of the people as
the only means of salvation and the
ole remedy against death.
All has been lost in the resulting
chaos due to the ignonliny OF redemp-
tionism.
Even the august names of Liberty,
Democracy. Redemption, Labor, have
lost their true meaning.
Those words have lost their former
significance.
Liberty means slavery; Democracy
is synonymous with privilege; Labor
is destruction, extinction, ruin, total
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05

| 1t IS htt1Dg tnat the 1unctlona11 1es
should celebrate it.
Yesterday they rested from their
lincessant redemptiOnist labors, from
their assiduous and paternal tasks as
our tutors; yesterday they enjoyed the
refreshing siesta in an atmosphere OF
uninterrupted repose and peace, IN
disturbed by the cares and worries Of
statecraft
Labor Day. The members of the
congregation did no work, they closed
their Offices and made the day one
of festivity.
But in exchange. if they did no
work nor anything else, they revived
the legend, they evoked the fanta site
fable of labor of superior men, per
formed marvellously in order to annih
ilate the inferior races, making boast
of their oppression and their admira-
BILE work and the results of their labor
attained in SO short time.
Yesterday they revived the legend.
The silence which surrounded the
Offices of the bureaucrats, the placid
tranquility which reigned and the at
mosphere of peace in government
centres, favored the apotheosis of re-
demptionist labor which they offered
to the mute contemplation of the peo'
pie in the way of supreme boast OF
inactivity and complete quiet.
The members of the congregation
assumed tired attitude; enthusiastic
priests inspired by a powerful and
strange religion which they believe
themselves obliged to impose, and in
their efforts to redeem peoples and
make them happy they had exhausted
all their strength and consumed all
they energies.
Possibly they believed that Labor
Day in the colonies should aspire TO
signify all this.
But that is not the way the colon
lists jude it.
The solemnity of the festival has
been completely lost in the transplan
ting. The same as happens with flo
wers and fruits Of different zones.
Here we have the functionaries,
and everyone knows the kind of work
tn y do.
The solemnity of the day IS trans
formed into ridicule by the spectacle
which the contumaCiol.s t2deraptionists
lily offer.
Common sense should have prevent
ed the t1ansplating of certain unwise
customs. which are foolish as we'll as
dangerous when they are not inspired
by necessity. nor for the benefit Of
anybody, but by foolish caprice and
without restraint.
So long as the conduct of the func-
tionaries conn>t be different what it is
now; so long as the proceedings OF
the government are the same, with no
variation in the methods and the use
of archaic methods, Labor Day will
have peculiar significance for the
colonists and grim and mocking iro
ny for the redemptionists.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
Servlelo Especial del Boletn MePeanln =:
GABLEGRAMAS.
Semuiran los bonmbarde0s
I'm avisO de Francia

Nueva York, martes-Dicen de Paris que
ST hoy no queda satisfecho ell pago de la indem-
nizaci6n, la escuadra francesa reanudara ma
nana los bombardeos de las ciudades del I'M
perio.
de actualidad la constituye el ultimatum de
Francia las suposiciones que sobre este Sc
hacen.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
aas C0mfep@nCia3
S0hFse HsaynRaaAec0s
Un nuevo fracaso

Nueva York, martes.-Desde Madrid CO.
muncan que Sc considera fracasado el proyec-
to de las conferencias sobre Marruecos en- Wis
ia del aspecto Que han tornado las relacioneS
internac1OnaleS.
Aun1ue lleguen reunirse los representan
tes ell resultado de Ia entrevista es facil pre-
verlo desde ahora, visto 10 ocurrido la fecha
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
la hueBga itaEsana
ha termimaea0
Ell movimiento anarquista

Nueva York, martes.- Cablegramas recibi-
dos de la capital itaiana dicen que ell movi-
miento obrero ha sido dominado, sin que oCu-
rtau desagradables sucesos
E. gobierno ha podido prevenir tambien un
movimiento de los anarquistas que habian ira
mado un complot importantisimo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
81 tl1irrao sss.ot@cos0
Hoy sera firmado a las tres

Nueva York, martes.-Hoy las tres de la
tarde irmaran los enipotenciarios rusos ja-
poneses ell tltimo protucolo
Con este motive la espectacion general Sc
ha convertible de nuevo hacia las dos naciones
que han cubierto de sangre ell Extreme Orlente.
La prensa consigna con satisfaction esta
noticia que pone termino al gran conhicto
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
Il Eola%ge de- ustis11a&szRHa
La indemaizaci0n q Francia

Nueva York, martes-Hoy espira ell plazo
conceddo al Sultan por el gobierno de Francia
para que haga efectivo e pago de la indemni-
zaci6n reclamada por la gran rep1bica europea
Ell Sultan ha pedido ampiacion al plazo del
ultimatum, pero Francia ha querido con-
cederIo
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
la escuadra ingnesa
en Gibraltar
Ell objeto del gobierDo

Nueva York, martes.-Los despachos que Sc
reciben de Europa dicen que la escuadra ingle-
sa ha llegado Gibraltar.
Creese que el ob,eto del gobierno ingles es
nanifestar de esta manera que esta de acuerdo
con la poitica de Franca en- Marruecos y con
la actltud Ultima hora asumida.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
u arRn5sxici0 de
los dos ejes-cit0s
Felicitando q Roosevelt

Nueva York, martes-Hoy quedara con-
certado tamblen un armisticio dehnitivo entire
los dos ejercitos be]igerantes en- la Manchuria.
Nr. Roosevelt esta recibiendo muchas fell
citacones, por Ell exito que ha obtenido su in
tervencion en- las negoclaciones de paz
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
Imcessdiari0s EN- Toxic
En- ell palacio del MikadO

Nueva York. martes-Dicen de Toxic que
han sido detenidos varios individuos que pre-
tendieron incendiar ell palacio del Emperador
Sc guarda un extraordinario m1sterlo acer-
ca de las declaraciones de los detenidos, pero
sin embargo el rumor publico asegura que es
una conspiracon de los coreanos.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
Una vista

En- representation del sef1or La
Prcsa, nos ha visitado esta 10 ahana
ell Sedor don America Marin.
Damosle las gracias por la atencicn
que ha tenide.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
Ia iDdenamSz@ I'll GS6m
q los fgsanCeSeS
IngIaterra esta de acuerdo

Nueva York martes.-Dicen los despachos
que Sc reciben de Paris que el gobierno frances
cuenta tambien con el apoyo de Ing.aterra' para
demandar el pago de la indemnlzacion que re-
clama al Sultan
Las pretensones de Francia son en- todo
apoyadas por el gobierno ingles.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-05
Ia opinion Enogrehina
contra Europa
Los odios recrudecidos

Nueva York, martes.-Informan de Tanger
Que la opinion en- e Imperio mogrebino sc de-
clara abiertamente contra Europa, recrudecidas
las ant1patias causa del conflicto que han pro
vocado con sus torpezas las autoridades mogre-
binas, obedeciendoa extranas maquinaciones.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12

at the expense of such a wide stretch
Oh me imagination as that referred to-
AS governor of this state William
;. Jennings made a clean record anC
demonstrated himself to be a business
man OF unusual ability. He conducted
the AFFAIRS of the state on business
principles, and his work stood out sc
prominently that the great million dol
par banking institution in Jacksonville
eagerly availed Itself of the opportuIi
~ to secure his services. His retire
ment into private life takes him into
greater and broader field of develop
lment than politics. He has shown BY
his fidelity to its affairs, to be a true
lover of his state and in his broader
'held he will be better enabled to pro.
mote its material welfare. His work
as chief executive fits him for the new
work and is an evidence of what he
can do under his new environments
and with added opportunities.
, Shame on any paper who would
Throw such an unwarranted fling at a
citizen who has honored his state and
his people and is still il the field OF
usefulness.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12
VOX POPULI.
J %%@**&**&*&*M&*&;
Is the Humane Law a Failure?

Is the Humane Law a Failure?
Editor Pensacola Journal:
From the fact that it's daily viola,
Ifion is witnessed on city streets and
suburban roads every day an affirma.
tive answer is in order.
One of the most cruel and unwar.
rantable violations of such a law was
witnessed on Wright street at the in
tersection of Palafox on yesterday
afternoon when spring wagon driven
by a well known citizen, had stored
in the rear part of the bed two small
calves. each with the four legs drawn
together and tied together with strong
cords-all in plain view of any one
passing near the vehicle.
The owner of this helpless mass OF
agony might have been stopped by an
officer, who had the power if not the
inclination, to make an arrest
But If an offender eyer deserved an
.overhauling of the severest nature he
did Why he was not halted as he
passed the depot, where one or more
officers are always on duty, it is hard
to understand
How many more such outrages
against the decency of an enlightened
community and on dumb animal be.
fore the inactive, IL not dead Humane
Society can be aroused to the impor.
lance Of Furnishing some of the high
handed offenders against the law.
~ An Offended Citizen.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12
A Soma of Rrlaht DAYS

A Song Of Bright Days,
What's the use in sighin' cause the
world is goin' wrong.
When the birds are Jest a-tryin' of a
halleluia song?
Seem shadders of a tomb,
When, in spite of all the gloom
The violet IN the snowldrift is a-6xing'
for TO bloomi
What's the use in sighin', when you
know a sky of blue
Is jest behind the shadders, an a.
smiling sweet for you?
When the laFks on the wing
When the sunny rivers sing.
An the meadows are a-waitin' on the
promise O. the spring!
You jest can't change the comm or
the goin' o. the years;
Let the~winds do all your sighin'-let
the clouds weep all your tears!
Spite o shadders o. the night,
There as love an there is light.
An the stars that shine above you
they bring heaven to your sight!
Frank Ia Stanton, in Atlanta Consti
tuition.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12

IN A MOMENT BE WAS BY her SIDE.
ing an occupation as any man could
desire. Now it had ceased to be all
absorbing. He wanted to be consulted
about the color of wall papers, the de-
signs of rugs and the style of furniture.
He wanted to hear some soft, femi-
nine voice saying, But do you think we
can afford it this spring, dear?" and
to answer grandly: Certainly, mad
am. Do you suppose your husband ia
such a duffer that he can't pay for a
few luxuries now and then?"
Queerly enough. the eyes that looked
into his as in fancy he made this speech
were Of a clear. lucid gray, with long,
dark lashes and beautifully penciled
brows. To be candid, they were the
eyes of Elinor Grant, one Of the few
girls of his acquaintance whose society
he had ever found as entertaining as
business. 1t seemed sort Of miracle
that they should appear at the partic-
uIar juncture. Decidedly fate was Civ
ing him tip.
When he called that afternoon Miss
Grant was out, and he had a childish
feeling that the bottom had dropped
out Of things. A dark suspicion that
other men besides himself might have
received tips from fate also haunted
him, and the thought made him q trifle
uneasy.
He wandered back downtown, feel.
Ing rather glum. There were other
girls, of course, always, but he wanted
to see her and no one else. Some way
of all the girls he knew she was the
only one he could think of in connec-
ton with the household details that
had suddenly appealed to him with
their homely charm. In imagination
he could see her busting about her lit
tie domain. one Of those narrow brown
stone houses huddled timidly between
more pretentious ones on some side
street. directing her maids and taking
a lively interest in the affairs Of her
little household.
The fancy pleased him immensely,
and he was going on to elaborate il
when the gay colors Of a display Of
wall paper in window he was pass
ing caught his eye. He slackened his
pace, and then and not until then did
he observe the figure of trim young
woman standing before it. absorbed
In contemplation. In a moment he was
by her side.
"One would think you had an estab-
Iishment of your own and were getting
ideas for having it done over" was his
laughing SANITATION as he looked down
at her withca pleased warmth IN his
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12
Springs Fairy
Wand
By KEITH GORDON
Copyright, 1901. Sy K. II. Whitehead
By KEITH GORDON

1t was tho English sparrows that put
It into Mowbray's head, though per-
haps the rhythmic beating Of carpets
and the sight of winter garments out
for their last airing in the sunlight may
have prepared his mind for the idea.
The world, so far as he could see II
from the windows of his back room.
had grown suddenly domestic. Every
time he approached the window some
new sign of household unheaval greet
ed him. Every one seemed distracting-
ly busy putting his house in order, aud,
without realizing precisely what was
the matter, Mowbray had a vague, IN
jured sense of being out of it.
Then one morning there was deaf
ening chatter outside the window where
on an adjacent wall the ivy leaves
were already changing from russell to
rich green and the plumes of the wis
TARA vine waved with languid elegance
in the spring breeze. True to their ma
ture, the sparrows were wrangling
fercely.
Evidently fighting for the hand Of
the same lady or disagreeing about the
advantages of a building site!' chuc-
kled Mowbray as he eyed the reflection
of his lathered face in the mirror and,
puckering his mouth to the left, drew
the razor skillfully across his right
cheek and viewed the result with crit
ical attention.
Itwas hOmely moment for self rev.
elation, but so it happened, and so It
must be set down. An instant later he
was thinking that it wouldn't be half
bad to be one of those married fellows
who at this season were receiving such
injunctionS as, 'Now, John. don't for
get to telephone the paper hanger" or
"Just stop at the carpet cleaners on
your way to the station and hurry him
up"
During the rest of his toilet Now
bray grinned at himself in the glass,
more or less humorously. Up to the
present moment the serious game of
money making, with occasional gay
hours, had seemed to him as satisfy
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12
THE DISBURSEMENT
OF Mr.. cRuMPAckER.
New Orleans States.

Tons of disbursement 1t seems is
being piled upon the unhappy Con-
gresham Crunpacker, of Indiana,
who has been endeaVoring to, gain
some notoriety on his proposition TO
cut down the representation of the
Southern States in Congress because
CT the Acknowledgement OF the colored
brother. He has admitted that he is
thoroughly discouraged, and that the
source from which the discourage
ment is coming in large lots is his
own party associates and newspapers.
IL is quite true as he complains, that
the Republican party is committed
by its national platform to the action
he desires, but there is evidently no
intention on the part of a very large
majority of the Republican Congress
men to pay any attention to it. Poor
'Crumpacker with his little bill finds
himself thoroughly deserted. He seeks
sadly for sympathy and Cooperation,
but they have vanished with the cleo
ton, and he is still all alone and
helpless. The Providence Journal, the
leading Republican newspaper OF
Rhode Island, hss narrowed the feel
ings of Crumpacker by advising him
to drop his bills for the reduction OF
Southern representatives and adore SIS
himself TO some better and more pro-
fitable task. The Journal says:
The resolution looking to the re-
duced representation that was adopted
by the Chicago convention may pos.
sibly have served some useful pur-
il, no M nion nd f.
packer IS almost alone in interpreting
1t as sacred promise. Even if il is.
there are some promises that, like some
customs, are better honored in the
breach than in the observance.
Our Providence contemporary is
quite right. The resolution in the
republican national platform servel
the useful purpose in the campaign" Of
holding the negro in the doubtful
States in line for Roosevelt, and hay-
Ing served that purpose has been rel
egated to the scrap heap of campaign
pledges. 1t now has its place in the
debris, although Crumpaeker may in
his indignation cry out that it was a
solemn promise made to the eolored
patriots, and that it Is damning evi-
dence of the insincerity of a party
which processes to be guided by party
principles. Crumpacker may raise this
with dramatic effect. more or less, but
the fact remains that the resolution
which so enthused the negroes of the
land and for time filed them with
bright dreams of high aspirations will
stay on the scrap pile where it has been
cast until such time as it may be
needed to again rally the negro vote
to the support OF the party of moral
ideas. Erumpacker, che disappoint-
ed, the discouraged, may gaze upon it
and weep, but there is no mistaking
the fact that 1t is now one of the many
campaign pledges of the Republican
party that were made to be broken
and to become an addition to other
political junk.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12
UNcALLED FOR CRITICISM
OF GOVERNOR JENNINGS.

The Tampa Herald takes the Bar
tow Coufier-Informant sharply to task
for an article that recently appeared
in its columns relative to the accept
ance by Governor Jennings of a high
position with one of Florida's leading
financial institutions. Under the cap
tion Prejudice Run Wild" the Herald
says:
The Herald .admires political con-
victions IN men and newspapers, but
it regrets 10 see these degenerate into
personal prejudices. Honest differ
ences OF opinion is but the exercise of
, mans right to have a mind of his
own.
An instance of political prejudice
Is noticed in the last issue of the Bar
tow Courier-Informant 1t saws:
Governor Jennings leaves his high
once to become a leading Official in
q million dollar bank. We hope his
experience win be somewhat pleas.
anter than with a bank with which
he was connected in the past. By
the way, Mr.. Jennings was loud in
denunciation of the national bank
ing law during his campaign for the
United States Senate Evidently he
was mistaken in his assertions, or
else he has conquered his aversion to
this detail of finance which so shocked
him for several months on the stump. "
Now, can the Courier-Informant give
any sane reason for making such a
ming as that? The acceptance of his
present position need not IN anywise
be affected by former Governor Jen-
ings' opinions on national banks. He
Is not engaged in national banking
nor is he connected with one. The in
stitution of which he is the president
counsel is a state banking trust com
pany. and It has no connection what.
ever with national banking. yet appar-
emily the previous political enmity
toward Jennings by the Barlow paper
must follow him into private Life even
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12

William Jennings Bryan at Mem,
phis and John Temple Graves at
CINCINNATI both pleaded for a
democracy that means something
and stands for something instead OF
a democracy that simply opposes
Instead Of party Of negation both
desire party that believes something
We are going" said Mr.. Graves be
fore the Dhckworth club at Cincin.
natl, ito find and follow real leaders
if We have to smash every slate and
annihiliate every politician that has
fattened upon cur suffrage for forty
wears. We are going TO make
g platform that will be an open op-
position to the republican creed
everywhere"
Mr.. Graves holds that in the pres.
ent stage of politics defeat is discip
line and disaster. "Out of the wreck
he goes on 20 say. of fortune we viii
build nobler and more endurfns
party of usefulness. The democratic
party is going to be reformed. re
formed and reconsecrated to the con
stitution and TO popular rights and
liberty. We cannot afford any longer
to be a party of mere negation. a
party of opposition, or a servile imi
tation of the party in power
Il tae country is to be rescued from
the grasp of Dingleyism and monopoly
1t must come through the democra
tic party rebuilt on the lines of JEFF
ferson and Jackson. and much depends
now upon the adherence by the rams
and file to true. democracy. This
leader viii come if the democratic
army itself holds faithful TO its ira
ditions. 1t was not In the old DAYS
the party of privilege. II did NOT
favor monopoly. 1t did not believe
in plundering the many for the benefit
of the few. 1t stood forth the cham.
pion of the masses, and that is what
Il must do if it is to regain control
oil the country and the confidence
Of the people
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12

Owing to the deadlock in the Della
ware Legislature plans for the inau.
guration O. GOvernor-elect Lea have
been abandoned. Hon. Gas" Ad
dicks, while he has not given up hope
Of being elected to the Senate is said
TO be looking slightly blue around the
gills.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-01-12

The California prune crop this year
Is 150,000,000 pounds. Heaven help
usi-Atlanta Constitution.
The Constitution Photographer will
at least find some consolation in the
thought that the whole crop will prob
ably not be served at the boarding
house which he honors with his pres
ence.