BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-05-02
EDITORIAL

an k'.-ee1 rf Crsvarscs a-v. - -
nos ~ lu 4 anrg eccsusc thss I,affets-
EsS asa S. inaEsu8 b. tn sa@;s .At
municipality of San Jean.
Ant fur lac pas fcW yesfs cur eiss
fathers h4vc nos disssugusSked sseal-
selves for shriT activity
The sols asa baptism ~sich - pro
,osed a. scc rdSncc wiik The ircics-
s,,ns az she press and II lhss which has
l~cn done by all the peoples oi tie
eay,a. ~ili bc celebrated IN san luan.
As all our fcsdcrS know. when uuT CITY
council may be able 20 place this
Walk. with a capital w. IN = condi
iion worthy iD be called The ~.ik II
Cervanics.
And that forsoo,h viii never be
Our EdilcS are not backward IN
projecting and announcing. they live
>n announcing and up n the propsgan.
da. But hen the time comes for full
fling their solemn promises. wscn the
term in which their engagements were
TO be effective has elapsed, then We
see that we have no City Hall that
the people are fatherless if the mayor
and City council deserve the title of
fathers.
And it is very lamentable that there
is no remedy for this. as is demons
trated by the ruin, which cannot be
called glorious of our theatre, becau 7
sc there is something lacking accord
ing to solution of the AyuEta miento
touchino the third centenary Of Don
Quixate" so that we can only hear
the resounding holdness Of Mr. Ca
rrion from The Porto Rico Sun. like
an echo prevailing through the night
of those terrifying feats of valOr to
which some lions. apparently sleeping,
in the times If the Spanish sovereignty,
distinguishing themselves by their
lamb like meekness. but who no 500
ner than the last soldier Of the civili
ger of nation had left the island
surprised the world by the resolute.
bravery of their attacks, which were
of Yirilily unsuspected and remar-
kable towards the ma iion which had
retired.
The resolution of the Municipality
and the Mayors report addressed TO
the Municipal Council, make a beaut
iful contrast with the deeds of S.lch a
hero who without the necessity of
going into battle, of fighting face to
face, of inciting revolutions. of queI-
ing mobs in the city. or even, at the
least, personal encounters, knew how
as soon as the spanish sovereignty |
was no more, to face about with all |
their courage into the bravest of
attitudes and with the most beautiful
poses imagin. BILE.
1t is pity that we have to oppose
ourselves to our City fathers for other
reasons. allowing ourselves in passing,
to express doubt as 10 whether their
promises will be fulfilled, because it is
with feeling Of complacency that we
see how less important, how they des-
pise the iBsistent and troublesome
echos Of those harangues and of those
treachercs now brought to mind by
Mr.. Carrion Maduro in the columns Of |
a paper little read.
But We must be just. We do not |
want to exhaust our repertory OF ad-
jectives which give so much pleasure
to our ccunclmen who need others
and in greater quantity, which do not
always express praise, neither are
very aSIStaDI", even IL ECIJ SOuOious.
The affair of the Municipal Phar-
macy, the matter of the sale # the
building new used for a prison and
the aban onnent of the theatre to
point where il is necessary to close it,
now that it is useless and dangerous.
and un worthy of city like San Juan
are matters sufficiently strong, even
were there TO others, to produce ap-
plause amounting to an ovation which
is the sovereign manifestation Of
triumph.
There is the project of Municipal
Pharmacy.
Now the service Of medicines is
neither made by administration, nor by
sale, it is a system which has no more
likely explain ,tlon than has conta
gion.
AS tn Ayuntamiento is situated
between two pharmacies it believes
itself druggist.
And naturally it needs drug store,
a laboratory, an establishment, in
short all that pertains to the atmos-
phere which it 5reathes.
It wonld be too bad were the two
neighboring pharmacies. frightened
by compe ttlon, forced 10 seek new