El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-03-07


moral makeup: extreme
light hearedness. AS rule are very cautious IN the
use of epthes and adjecyes in general, but more 50
when application of the qualifying terms is intended for
whole people However, it is painful for US TO admit
that we Porto Rcans certainly affected by that all
ment and it is about time that best efforts be bent
towards the correction of the serious fault, and the
cultivation of genuine serious-mndness If we wish
really be the worthy citizens OF free and civilized
country RI
AS al pnsequence ofour habit oconsider lightly all the
different kinds of business that demand our attention,
and resutOf failure invests gate thOroughlythe
more important any problem is the less bother with
it and conversely any lle at ali is apt to engage our
attention for indefinite time. We always remain on
the surface never go deeply into anything but with the
difference that little things are scanned thrashed ana
discussed oyer and over if very lives were to be
affected by the result Of the discussion. ~. n
Didn't YOU notice how excited we become when
we begin discussing the battle OF Waterloo the discovery
Of the canals the surface OF Mars the age Of Con
fucious? These things may be important, and udOub
tedly for the historian and for the astronomer they ought
to be of Importance but reader for you and the writer,
who are plain and ordinary citizens, and beg your
pardon if you not sruggngor living in San Juan,
Porto Rico the regulation Of the gu0guds the avoidance
Of strikes by the employees of the trolley company or the
good condition of our streets thousand times
important But just because put much of
our energy into thinking and debating about things that
don't affect in the least il they affect at all it is
in a remote MANNER and just because we don't put any
energy at all in the consideration Of those things that
to and affect very life and progress,
for that very is that we kept backwards and
it will take centuries to reach PLACE in civilization
which, other countries will REACH in years only. .5,.
1t is pity to see how taken off our feet when
VIE listen to any one who may think is first class
orator Mind YOU do not mean at all that SHOULD
deny admiration to one Of those artists but to let
selves be deceived by hot air talk and to let i'm
portnt matters SO to the dogs because we tentedly
hearing or watching the sayings and dongs Of one Of
those charlatans is Something unworthy of men who
claim they are fl for selgovenment and for the enjoy
ment Of liberty. .s NH. .4$ ~ .45l -
Take for Instance the debates last week in the Legs
lature During the previous weeks, hardly day went
by without the few delegates attending being dismissed
for lack of quorum important business requires the at
tendance of the Legislators to the sessions but
mind, that can wait But when the talk of C0rdova
Davila in Congess to be the object Of discussion,
WE'LL that something of extraordinary importance.
You ought to hear the speeches. and the patriotic out
burst and the appauses-!
q But the day before yesterday, Rossy and Iuyke said
few things of REAL IMPORTANCE The former
called the attention Of his colleagues to the fact that
Legislature looks rather like vaudeville show like
place where actors go for GxhibOn and IIuyke said,
use for us talking Of political liberty when economically
the slaves of foreigners OF the total wealth in
the 1sla1d per cent belongs to Americans
resident IN the United States seventeen per cent to
foreigners and the balance LESS THAN FOURTEEN
PER- 7CIGNT was the property of Porto Ricans Do we
needto tell you that the hearers did not like that? Why
not only no applause trbuted to ROssy and Huyke,
but they were heard with dspeasure nay, with hostility.
Why should they speak to of things don't like?
Statistics? What good they do anyway? No, people
like Rossy and Huyke don't know how talk to the peo-
pie The people some iorid fine phrases what they
call red hot tdand never mind the rest And if ROssy.
and Huyke want to take lessons in TALKING let
them go to many good TALKER we have in the Legis-
lature.
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