BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-07-28

Of misfortunes whicz they have Great
ed by their incompetency, which
they have flled with reefs of inexpe-
rlence, they would not await the Sc
cond notice Of expulsion which doub-
| tless will be more peremptory and ter
sc.
There is no reason why one who has
no means of earning living in the
United States should be thrust upon
the colony aa blighting plague, for
the mesocratic emigrants are plague.
Repeating one of their favorite say
jngs, we can say that each one of
them would best employ his time in
seeking business, working for his liv-
ing, but not living at the expense of
colony which they have ruined Under
the guise of being redemptionists.
The colony does not owe the obliga-
tion of providing for the floating poll
tical heelers Of the United States, nor
for the exotic Families of those same
politicians. The budget of every
country is for the people of that conn
try and for them only.
That and more is said in the me
| norial of the municipalities, though in
4 document of that nature the charges
could not well be more explicit.
1t is very clear that such q conclu-
sion has not been arrived at by the
colony, determination so EXPIRE essive
has not been reached by the League of
municipalities unwittingly. and the
proof that its findings have struck ho-
me, although apparently ignored, is
found in the leading article published
yesterday in the organ Of the functio-
| naries
The trarscendent and apparently
authoritative style of that article that
dazzles by its glittering sinuosities, its
unbalanced movements, its picturesque
incoherency, bears the unmistaka BILE
hall marks of the youthful pen of a
functionary relatively precocious, who
| must enjoy a sinecure, having time for
inventions, Tor automobile expedi tlons
and the most stupendous attention to
industrial enterprises
He dejsns to be satisfied with the
~ffcrts of the Assembly, an approval
which has been neither asked or
expected, or eveu needed, and of this,
abundant proof has been given by the
sending of the me mortal direct TO the
national Congress without asking the
uIs< of the powerful arbiter who has
condescended 10 announce his appro-
val of it's efforts.
This heavy writer also af6rms that
d. municipal autonomy would be untortu-
Iunate and undesirerable from the fact
that many municipalities show def
cit in their budgets.
The novel debutant journalist has
not been able to hide his real cha
racter Of redemptionist teacher, nor
Ibis pose as a superior man.
With accustomed frankness we have
to say it: .Dexterous Juggling is of
no value, nor insolent exhibitions OF
.Etfm per as that which seeks to cause
ltrem bling at the bugbear of the Popn-
1ation which has eighty percent OF ILL
terates by chance falling under the
government of an INSCRIPTIONS per-
son. =
If eighty percent OF onr rural popu-
llation is una bIe@to read, ninety nine
percent of he f;nctionaries are una
Bile to think.
But we do not on that account deny
them the right which they may have
to live in their own country and IN any
style which they may elect. -.
What we cannot consent to is their
desire to hypnotic US by talking of
things of which they themselves
are ignorant and their pretensions
to educate US in such an inept
and infantile.. manner that in itself
smirches the name of the island
in the opinion of cultured countries
and which degrades it in its own
lestee 81.
We have already had enough of
Ipuerilities and the dislikes and pet
Iuancies of the bureaucratic congre-
Igation.
They amount to nothing The
country has turned its back on those
silly and incapable educators, indig-
|nantly repudiating the absurd and
icontemptible farce of redemption.