BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-02-08
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Executive Counc'loi blessed memory
who had .he hard hood - opposo sne
will 81, The House # Delega;,>
They iurn cea! eaT 10 ,ur chsl
lenc. because ihev are convinced of
the weakness oi their case
BIT flom whence comes ihC iuaae0.
&c waioh seemingly holds the awer
house IN is WISE IKE .rip. and which
with finger to lip imperiously COM
II andS silence"
In what dark corner OF our So-c2llcd
temple of laws, turks this horrible
monster. who like a wolf in Sleeps
cloIhing is apparently prompted only
by motives of fstherly S'licitude. but
IN reality is actua;eG by the most
ferocious tyranny.
Can il have fascinated the lower
house. with the eyes OF = serpent thus
exercising its Infamous d, mination'
The public stands stricken with fear
before the appariIon Of this mons :.
truouS enemy whose manifestations in
the past it remembers with terror
But We do not see this enemy It
does not now exist.
In the process of evolution which all
organisms inevitably suffer. this de-
formed phantasm has been trans
formed into something inoffensive and
useful. like the fossils from the gla
cial period, lyingin the showcases of
exr museum, but cOnclusively dem
onstrating the preexis,en nee Of nam
moth animals.
But unfortunately the recollection OF
past experiences sometimes paraly-
zes the will, and the action of that
throw the life belt to. our drowning
agricultural class, is still fresh in the
minds of the people giving rise TO.
doubts and fears.
The House Of Delegates should rep j..
resent the will of the people, not the
opjnien of Executive Council.
The people do not ask the House of
Delegates to grant it the loan, :because
tt knows only TO well the narrow Ii
mits of its lawmaking powers -
But the people do ask the House e
present and support the can bill. To
this they Qhe House, ars committed.
The fact Of the Executive Council S
opposition to the loan bill = Gu 4 not
influence the House bur ould ather
spur them on to rer, ID off ITS 10
wards acquainting H. pgope officials,
with the expresseo will o ne people.
The dominant m. jorlty in The House
kno rs that if on account of the
assured opposition of the Executive
Council, it fails to present the loan
bill, it will sound the deathknell OF its
party in the eyes of the Porto Rican |
people.
lhOSe OftlclalS VINO are nOI dtpcn-
dent on popular suffrage, and to
whom the ful6lment of the peoples
aspirations matters nothing, can afford
to refuse the granting Of the loan,
thereby again causing the sad spec
tacle of a surprised and outraged
people, as was produced al the close
of the last extraordinary session Of
the legislature
The Executive Council should be
filled to overfowing by representa-
tives of all classes Of our people, dur
ing the debate on the loan bill.
1t will be necessary to be prese mt
as witnesses in order to see those who
are with the country and those wpo +
are against it; those who defend and
those who attack, or try to convince
us that we are in error by giving
welghty reasons, using inconteStable
logic, infalible wisdom, which they
alone possess, those who maintain
the imposes bility of acceding to the
wishes of the people by conceding the
loan.
The people will go there to listen to
the dis cussion Of a bill whose passage
will concede the right TO live to up
wards of five hundred Thousand hu
man beings, and to whom also its fail
ure TO become a law is equivalent TO a