El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-06-26

Il
-:x; SUI caracter", calls our attention to
the fact that, toward the year 1859,
(when our hero born) Barranqutas nothing but
"a miserable little hamlet and the biographer, Dalmau
Cane then proceeds to enumerate the circumstances
amidst which the superman spent his childhood and few
years beyond is interesting to note that at that
Htime-Wrtes the biographer-there were two public
Schools no first class roads, but narrow path connect
ing the village with Coamo trip to San Juan was then
considered a herculean task.
Is the intention of the bographer to point out the ext
guilty of the surroundings in contrast with the greatness
of the man? Hardly for Dalmau Canet is familiar with
the fact that large proportion of the really extraordln
ay characters the first light and up not exactly
in the great ceners of population Christ was not born
in populous and cultivated Rome Lincolns birth place
is far removed from New York, Philadelphia or Chica-
co. Corsica would have remained obscure had not Napo
leon to life in that island It seems to be country
boy the poor boy who brings the necessary amount of sta
nina for doing the extraordinary things.
The mountainous central portion of Porto Rico is our
hope and day it will come to the front to demand
its DUE We pay no much attention to that part OF the
country where the best of our manhood is found Mr..
Cannons belief that the cream and flower of Porto Rico
was fairly we'll represented by the city crowd filling the
gallery while he spoke in the Legislature Hail. should not
be accepted without the closest scrutiny 1t fact how
ever that the average city dweer in Porto Rico fares not
bad his country brother under the present clrcums
tance but the baro de la altura properly fed knows
how to get along better than the city dWeller.
Our hero however, was no poor "baro" in the ordin-
ary sense The grand child of Captain of the Spanish
Army and the son of country gentleman Munoz Rivera
had plenty Of opportunity for cultivatng the mind by
reading, thinking, dreaming about the future Which
lad in the capital city of the island could have said at that
time to have many facilities for education and develop
ment? Nonsonse Barranquitas Aibonito Cayey, Utua-
do Adunta and all the upands of Porto Rico with their
spring like climate and wonderful landscape are of course
much superior to San Juan any other town the
board.
By the way, What became Of that proposition to esta-
bsh the capital city of this country somewhere in the
mountains? Was it at Abonito where ex-commissioner
of tboT T9n tO hl1t2
splendid idea. Mexico City, Guatemala City, Bogota
Quito Caracas all of them capitals of tropical countries
enjoy ideal spring weather all the year round Porto
Rico could easily have its capital situated at altitude Of
five hundred meters above the level of the sea-
deriving the many advantages meant by the change That
city could be within little one hour by rail- from
it's port San JUAN which of would continue the
commercial center of the island Will legislators
think Of that? If Barranquitas should be the selected
spot change its for that of hero No danger
of politics spelling the plan at this time; Luis Munoz Ri
is dead and hurried