BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-06-08
EDITORIAL

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We have wished &c contemplate Z a.
placid face og ,le great oemocEai a. id
educator. Notwithstanding The Tu.g u
riiv whieh the impcrfections q ilte
cut impa1t. Although the wood III
is no. The best we have seea. 7ot~ J
thstandirg It's having been printed ID
the typographical establishment ol
Mr. Post. we have admired the sell
satisfied look which il displays at the
contemplation Of the world t-om ITS
very modest PEDESTAL; and the orator
whom il represents. has come &c com
plete the series Of eminent men whom
we have had amongst as who serve
the same purpose and form brilliant
coterie. W hose achievements embrace
the writing of a book on sociology
with the same facility as creating
law which closes the distillerIes;
cause the world to.i contemplate IN
amazed stupe faction the revolution
which is bound to be made in naval
industry by improved coverings tor
keels aad other submerged parts OF
boats, invent ted by another genius of
colonization.
While thinking on this subject, the
idea is imm ediately forced upon us
that something was omitted by those
who conceived the brilliant project Of
issuing a special number of period
ical-althouqla with wood GUS in
order to cele brate nothing less than
the first year after the fourth, or per-
haps the fifth, of the inaugura t1on OF
Civil Government in Porto Rico.
Such an auspiclous occasion was
worthy of something more striking.
We might at least have been treated,
IN addition to an article by Mr.. Falk-
ner, to an exhibition of boxing and
selections on the paonograph
But few wood cuts on glazed paper,
which the people Of Porto Rico cons
ign to the custody of the United States,
is little thing to commemorate SO
important an event.
The wood cut has become very
cheap
And since it costs SO little, and the
public is pleased with news gra phical-
ly portrayed, any one is able to have
his picture in the pages of ne VS.
paper.
In order to accomplish this, if one
is not able to do anything good, it is
sufficient for him to do something
heinous. Perchance it may not occupy
such position of honor as that in
which Mr.. Falkner has taken care to
have his portrait placed, nor may it
possess the seraphic smile of that
work of art which leads ore to
suppose that the subject enjoys
perfect health in mind and body, for
which We are duly glad.
Nothing could be more democratic
than wood cut.
If Mr.. Falkner were TO write a book
concerning the elements which have
most contributed to universal demo-
cracy, he ought to include ghe photo
engraving which adorns the special
number of The School Record"
within it's covers and in conspicuous
place, perhaps the NEST conspicuous.
The art Of photo en craving has
made it possible to bring together
vulgarities and eminences, criminals
and martyrs, conquerors and the con-
quered
Before Admiral Togo shall visit Ro-
jestvensky in the hospital at Sasebo,
the two portraits will doubtless alrea-
dy have been placed side by side in
the ma jority of the illustrated reviews.
Perhaps the eminent Commissioner
of Education was thinking of this
when he went to have his picture ia
ken, in order that the wood cut might
be made. And it shows him smiling
Smiling like saint.
But it was not our intention today
to write about Mr.. Falkner.
We have been impelled to do SO
because of having hunted in vain
through all the pages of the special
issue of The Porto Rico School Re-
cord" for photograph of Mr.. Elliot.
1t is an indisputable fact that the |