BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-08-28

Some day we are going to find IL
the leading article of The Eagle" OF
Ponce a detailed, exact and ninutt
account of what the colleague collects
from the administration for the adver-
Itisements of property to be sold fo1
taxes, instead of the irremediable
HYMNS to american colonization and t.
1.-THE functionaries.
Such a strange explosion OF gratitu-
de would not surprise as. as 1t is natn-
raj and proper for satisfied stomachs
to be prodjgal in their demonstrations
of appreciation.
Banquets invariably end in this
way, with speeches. And properly
looked at, it can be seen that ''Th.
Eagle" is giving itself more than a
banquet, it seems to be benefit.
A declaration such as we have out
lined above would be moving in the
columns of the Ponce daily as an ex
preston of extravagant gratitude and
frankness.
The article might have as a title:
The price of ameyieaassns. And, among
other arguments and witticisms SO
proper for hired journalists. we would
see confessed the motive for such a
strange americanization of our collea-
que, of its synpathies in favor of eve
rything that is of continental exporta
ton, and of its defence of the present
regime and of the tunctionaries that
make it worse.
Without having to be told, we know
why The Eagle" defends the present
regime.
We have only to observe the alarm
ing progress of the sinister paper-we
refer to the increase Of advertisements
Of public sale-to understand at once
that The Eagle" has sufficient mott
yes for thes Sc defenceS.
It is more, the paper is hired to do
this.
Were it not for the existence of q
system of extravagant government,
government which spends in useless
)avishmcnt the product of the enorm
GUS contribution collected at the
muzzle Of blunderbuss, would there
be so many auction sales, and would
tie liquidation of the country go on
so rapidly?
And if there were no public sales.
there would be no announcements.
This is the reason for the america
nization of The Eagle" without those
public sales. it would be extihguiske1
it would perish, it would meet with
the same fate as it's colleagues with
exotic titles like The Eagle, which,
Notwithstanding its being written in
caribbean csstillian it is called The
Porto Rico Eagle, and although it
obeys sinister calculations, though it
Goes not come out openly as govern.
ment organ, it is evident that the
foreign daily which lives upon ruin
and feeds ON spoils, is so by proper
right and sponsorship.
1t is pity that the government is
able to exhibit a little group of rene
gades and ship wrecked ones who
live like the inha bitants of some soil
tary shores upon the wreckage thrown
up by the sea. 1t is a pity that it is
able to present them, to say that they
are Porto Ricans, although the whole
country is aware and everyone that
sees that paper filled with announce
ments Of public sales is aware also
that it is the price of hire Of the pens
that write it.
Never before has ocurred the unu-
sual circumstance that whole island,
an entire country is being sold at pu-
bile auction as is being done now. For
this reason the monumental auction
needs representative in the press
that has title in keeping with the
mission given to it. The Crow"
would be too alarming and for that
reason it is called THE Eagle
Neither the most indelica.e fawn :