El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-01-09
INDUSTRIAL
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ST. 81 the community with their indus
!" trial enterprise. At present we
have very few business men among the rich people OF
Porto Rco for to have money in the bank and live on
the interest houses and live on the rent they
produce is simply to be social parasite to the great
detriment of the community. However, he would be
very unWise man who drew his money out of the bank
or turned his houses into money in order to invest the
capital into business scheme unknown tor him. no
matter how good any business appears to u.s. we should
not go into it, don't know anything or little about it.
We must understand thoroughly proposition before
we put cent into it. ~
It follows that all capitalists should be workers they
should not let their dollars work for them but work with
the dollars themselves Therefore, all men with money
ought to know how to handle their money as duty to
themselves and to their fellowcitizens
If rich people, if our capitalists good business
men general the proposition to make San Juan large
industrial center would be an easy one to work out.
Their good would tell them, for instance, not to
make DOCTORS lawyers etc., out of their boys but to send
them to the United States to learn industrial
PATTON along the chemical mechanical any other prac
tca ine and after these boys came back the investment
in the industrial field, in San Juan, would be compa
rvey easy and safe proposition Let for instance
intelligent Porto Rican boy go to the United States
to learn the paper industry let that boy remain there
several years, mastering all the details of the industry
in such manner that at the end of the he could
himself establish and take charge of the management of
paper factory Can anybody doubt that this experenc
ed would be able perhaps even to induce the same
concern in whose paper mill he learned the trade to
tabsh another mill in Porto Rico if he could prove with
figures that the scheme is profitable one?
The thing is true of any other article of simple
nature, like ordinary wrapping paper for which
the raw material wood pulp, is imported into the United
States from Canada, Newfoundland, the Scandinavian
countries etc. Cotton mills which have been
fully established in the southern staes Georgia. Ala
bama etc. could also be established in Porto Rico;
would have to import the material, cotton but
have our New England competitors, and of the
freight cotton put up in tightly pressed bales is
considerably less than the quantity of material
transformed into prints gnghams, undershrts socks
and stockings etc. For crOckery and glass perhaps
have of the material required in SOIL and
it only remains to be if the Porto Rcan market in
itself would be sufficient to support factories of these
articles have not statistics, but strongly
inclined to think that million and three hundred
thousand people, of our quality, enough to
keep these factories busy Shoes of course must be the
object of close study And through the whole list
of manufactures.
We hold in conclusion, that though there difficult
ties the way to the establishment of industries in this
country the thing be DONE if only capitalists
make their minds to it in earnest manner and begin
ming by the special training of people for the purpose
OF courses if keep turning out lawyers and doctors
by the hundreds and pay attention to those profess
sons s0here the money Gys shall never be industrial
" independent but continue paying out every year
large sum of money in freight and foreign labor
factured goods and Cities like San Juan, will be
unable to develop beyond the size and importance of large
villages
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