BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-09-11

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llible decision.
| And Mr.. Post feels proud that he
comedies with The Oracle.
| The Two hold the same opinion
they both believe that the League OF
municipalities has wished to violate
the law; the two fantastic personagesi
the taumaturgist and the oracle. are
the advancers CT this extraordinary
opinion.
The League Of Municipalities can
mot be sustained BY municipal. funds.
The Oracle has said it. And d.
you know who is the Oracle?
1t is the Attorney General, the
would be deity whom the members OF
the congregation have to reveal to the
colonials the beauties Of expans1onlsm
And it must not be believed that
this oracle is sort of sacred phono-
gra ph for the repetition CT the adml-
rable redemptionist doctrines, which
are revealed by conjured up miracles.
I; He is, moreover, the mythologlcal
parsonage possessed Of three powers,
to speak for himself and to himself
omnipotence is his virtue.
ae is legislator iu the Executive
Council; he is the Head Of a depart
ment, he is the supreme Fiscal in ju-
dicial questions; he is. in short, the
most legitimate representative of a
regime so primitive and ty rannical
that it has inevitably produced those
monstroua functionaries in whom are
concentrated and symbolized all IA
culties and powers.
The power OF this functionary is
|stupendouG.
1t is power that beggars definition,
that is not regulated by laws, nei
ther is subject 10 popular sovereignty
nor is it reprimanded by the tribunal Is
of justice which it forms at its pleasu
re and that of the congregation.
And this is the functionary who
says he agrees with MIR. Post.
All. If the League of Municipali
ties were not so necessary, SO needed
50 indispensable; If it did not depend
upon the unanimous support of the
country, upon the absolute sympathy
of the colonials; if it did not have or
its side the most diverse elements O.
the island; if it did not boost of the
most legitimate and sugdst popula,
representation, fears hight be enter
tanned for the life or ~tl.is bcne Ecen
association and it would be necessary
to resign ourselves as to an inevitable
misfortune, to see it perish under the
opposition of the central power
| But it signifies and represents much
this League is too great for the Attor-
ney General with all his power, ant
for Mr.. Post with all his smooth com
binations and for the entire congre-
cation associated with him. to be able
to desjntegrate it.
The League will live, although i
may have to be sustained by The
individual citizens Of the municipsli
ties, although we may have to open {
subscription in order that this worl
may not fail and perish, although al
governmental power are confederateC
against it and all obstacles are il
combination, because upon the triumph
of this great work depends the saliva
ton, not only of our threatened life
but also OF Our public honor which j.
deeply involved in the triumph of the
association and in the realization o1
its program.
When this program has been COM
pleted there will not then be any
functicnaries who will dare to consult
the oracle in order to antagonize the
unanimous aspirations of a people