El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-02-21

FOR seems be of the best
TINTFRPRISTNG publc-Spirited have
'a PEOPLE in the country. AT least, dur
q - ~ " y ing our short term Of residen-
M s &c here--six months
we have had the opportunity to this mans name
connected with several progressive schemes all tending
to wake us up to bring us Porto Rcans the reaza-
e. ton that we must lookout for the opportunities rgn1
~ here before outsiders come in and seize them
We like to see an intelligent, honest man making
of money and the time serving his fellow
beings in different by moving the sources OF
wealth and keeping them active service by furnishing
to his coworkers that IS to say to the peo
pie who help him in the development OF ms enterprises
by working towards the economical emancipation OF the
country making it produce hundred and one things that
Today have to be Imported; and finally by being living
Sc s. example for inspiration to his fellow-citizens
What we really object to- is the idle RICH The lazy
thing who by accidental caseeither inheritance
Or what people call ck-have the use OF riches,
and stupidity employ them either for his selfish
qualification to do harm to the community We have
M many varieties of this same specie Of drones: the
IGNORANT heir wfo unable to manage the fortune left
him, squanders it in less time than it takes us to tell
l about it, the professional exploiter who hunts system
aticay for those Investments that will increase his
Z capital in the most unscrupuous manner etc. These
immoral persons these social parasites will not be tol
Grated in a more advanced citivization than ours.
Y s Coming back te Nh. de la Haba, the other day he
repubshed in this paper from the
an article his inviting the country at large to establish
regular line Of steamers between Porto cn and con-
finent ports OF course evident that if the sugar
mills and other agricultural interests, (he exporters)
and the Island merchants the mporters) get together
and study the proposition it can be carried out in
since the moment that shareholders and patrons or
ents were be the persons and consequently the
@sprots made to be divided In this cooperative
scheme, by merchants and planters they would readily
perceive that it paying proposition from the very
@ beginning, it would reduced tremendously
nap their freights, and they would GLADLY sub
IS Scribe to it. Some rs Titles prejudice should
he expected this is natural when going to in
troduce something entirely in country, but fin
G thing would be done The general public should
be interested in the scheme banks here hOugh they are
ready charge exhorbant rate of interest when they
money first class security, interest at II
dicllously low type to their depOstOrs what in
Spanish is called Ia ley del eebudo. Many of these de-
posors would invest their savings in enterprises like
the suggested. I4ss.a4 D ta
What we need is some few enterprisng to break
the ice Lead to set the example Then we, the flock
follow; be of that. Take for instance insurance
companies covering life marine fire and all other risks
Ne certainly cans why Porto Rcans should not
able organize them country to have efficient
service rendered by them, and TO KEEP THE PROFITS
here both in giving occupation to many people and In
4, nkeepins thediyidends for ourseNesAa lssf6
f Here is another example teegraphic company,
- either by submarine cable or wireless We kick lot
about the extortionae charged by the existing
aies say fifty cents word to New York. etc. although
between Cuba and the United States SO low
Now the best get ridof these expoers would be
a. M organizing here and by interesting the peo-
large they will patIpnze our company in prefer
the others The thing should not cost so much
as as money that we could not raise here.
That electric company, too, it is about time our
municipality should if it could buy it out, and exploit
the business big profit. Then we, the people could
have monopoly of the transportation, to which we
strongly object while the enterprise is private
ea But of Mr. de la Habas and whoever have at
matters of those kinds that is to say, our indus
trial and commercial progress know that We are rather
of competent people to those enterprises,
b organize them and to keep them going successfully
that have dealt in previous articles, and therefore
ess think it unnecessary to do it again, just now