BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-06-15
EDITORIAL

ENNtF# tt%Ft At@4t~ ~#A 49, #N"~+N
is oessia,lv guarded ~asA Aiszoluss se-
sFNcg.
Sssce hen here has been no me-
essnx uf the Counciiicsx.
Possibly shry are engsgrd IN pre-
psrisu ,he minute repst which TIE
pex,1en, muss have asked for. and ir
ira, Labor. which Is in this instance a
more difficult task shan heretofore.
our scuilleno missionaries spend ali
their time.
Ths, We are compelled to keep WI,
ing upon supposi;ioes and arguing
from logical d. duciions. is the fault OF
the impenesrable functiousries, who
are converting the regimen into SINE.
thing which cannot reflect the popular
pulse and which has no, the slightest
relation to the citizens.
We live in an absolutely feudal
state.
1t is said that We have parliament
tary regimen. and yet, lot only does
the Executive Council have secret
meeting. but il excludes the native
members from the conference, and 10
the press not a word is said as TO the
business transacted.
One might suppose that we were
living in state OF domestic revolu-
tion or Of foreign war. and that mar
tial law had been proclaimed.
Because this inexplicable silence
and suspicious secrecy on the part OF
the functionaries, who have reached
the point of making the mselvss feared.
can servo no other purpose than to
produce sneasiness and fdlly justified
fears.
And this. without doubt. has result
ed in making transparent density
in which this secrecy has tried to hide
itself and in obtaining an exact In :
sight into what took place.
The heads cf the Departments are
now fnlly occupied.
And the present situation OF those
functionaries is in no sense an envia-
BILE one. It is no simple or easy task
to present as the legitimate work Of
government the infinitude of irTegul :
arit;es committed in Porto Rico by the
mogre bino congregation,
Our unfortunate and discredited
tutors are deserving of pity in these
days.
The task could not be more srduous
and complicated. because they do not
conceive the happy inspiration OF con-
Tossing themselves useless and super
fuous. absolutely divorced from he
colonial ideal. outside of cur atmos
phere, and therefore without attribu-
tes and without standing, living in
the controlling spheres where excep-
tional abilities and qualifications are
needed.
They do not possess that frankness
which might redeem and cleanse
them from all their sins, making them
entitled to the generous pardon of for
gstfulress. making known all at once
to President Roosevelt that they have
come to a recognition of the fact th-t
they are not needed on the island. that
they are superfuous. that their in-
husnce is demor4 lizing and that they
have at last awakened to the cons
ciousness that they are nuisance and
are ready TO evacuate.
Ah! then the fact would not be so
lamentable that the same ones who
must take care TO distort the facts
should be the ones charged with the
duty of compiling the report in which
their own deeds are recorded with the
partiality which our readers may pre-
sumo, and, which with these functio-
naries of expansionism amounts to
an inspiration which surpasses the
limits of belief.
And this is sentiment on which all
are agreed.
The ganeral aspiration has come to
he condensed into a wish on whose
fulfilment the life of the country
depends. A wish that amounts to a
necessity: the departure OF those
depressing men who have disturbed
our life and cast shadows and sadness
over our limited horizon.
If instead of receiving inform alton
from the functionaries. it was furni-
shed by the people, it would be sum
married into one desire: the In
mediate departure in entirety OF those
hecatombic functionaries.
The report which they will send
now will doubtless be like the ones sent
at other time. statistical juggles in
which the significant and damning
facts will be cleverly and cunninply
concealed. and those things that arc