Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-02
WHAT I..R. SAULSB iY
DID FOR PLRIO RICO
Grateful Recognition Of His Ser
vices Given by a Friend oil
Our Island Territory.

Editor Ev ~ E.vcn,-r:-ln no other
S.ata III this glorious mon has
mn nohti.-,lly wronged island oi
Porto Rico found better trlehds
and weIl-wishcrs than IN Delaware
= fact which can only be e1plaIne' ~
the reason that the staunch spirit 9l ,l
the old-ftshioncd Amcricanlsm Is stu
.live IN the oso rs OF IFS patriotic sons,
>. nowhere in New England oi historieai
fame. II was. then, but natural 'tat
wheu the Coner. - ot the | nted states
finally woke up To he necessity oil remedy
ing Porto Ricos grievances, when ma
hepn endured during eighteen years 81
American rule. il should have found
foremost ready listener and eo-oPefatof
II. Senator salisbury OF Your tate,
y h:Ic Others. Republicans and Democrats,
looked upon them with sheer indlfiefehee
when not adversely Il Is, therefore,
also becoming that grateful Porto h!eahS
should follow with sympathetic interest
all that pertains to Delaware as Poiiaz
cul entity. and that the tate ol our ees'
friend Senator Suulsburyat at next lse
election should be matter dear - @tta
hearts rs no other candidate, ReIu III i
or Democrat
The statement POLITICALLY wronged
; II refers 10 Porto Rico which | make
above calls for an explanation to those
DeIavareans who may not he familiar
with the process of things following the
American occupation Of the island
Standing sQuareiy against those. ke-
publicans and Democrats who upheld
the unAmericln sentiment that the
Porto Ricans could Ee governed under
capricious colonial policy, outside ot
the Constitution and hercayed oil Amefi-
can citizenship. Senator salisbury mann
tanned the 0ld-fashioned principle that
the organic Law should follow the tag
everywhere. and. therefore that Porto
Rico should he Il full-Redged lerrltoN
whose citizens could not he deprived
of the national attribute Consequent-
Nv Senator Salisbury unsuecessfQlty
sponsored hill III the upper house 81
Congress calling for the application III
Porto Rico of The tucrlcan principle
and in opposition to the unconstitutional
bill the so-called Jones hllD which Is
TODAY the law Of the island and Which.
eventually, lett my felloW-lslander. ~
dissatisfied as they were before. but
with the earnest hope that something
will he done TO Lrlng back the immortal
document to its old moorlngs III a future
session of Congress. As Senator Sauls-
bury was the OnlY statesman III W itStt-
ington who came to our rescue IN the
hour Of need, and ne is sure to persevere
in his patriotic stand you can imagine
the misfortune that would befall Porto
Rico by his absence from the upper
body. which we do not believe
And the Senator who called for such
const tutional recognition Is now
chairman of the committee having our
affairs in charge He understands the
! interests of the United States IN the
Caribbean country, and equally we'll
he appreciates the justice that Is due to
Porto Rico after all of these Years OF
mistake and neglect
1t is Of great Importance to the United
States, commercially and from mil
itary point of view, that Senator Sauls-
! bury be returned. Party questions are
sometimes overshadowed by national
! requirements 1t is not because Senator
Salisbury is either Democrat or a
Republican that he is the man fer tins
emergency II is because he under
j stands a question of serious import 10
the nation and Knows what 10 do in the
premises.
u Collazo
New York, November /, 1918