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PORTO
RICO
AND GOYERNOR
REILY.
At a
mass
meeting
of the Porto
Rican
colony
in this town
day before yesterday
resolutions
were adopted
notifying Presi-
dent
HARDING and
both houses
of
Con-
gress
that
Governpr
REILY
is,
in
the
opinion
of
these
protestants,
an
-unfit
person
to continue
in office.
The
Gov
ernor
is charged
with
the
utterance
of
‘‘Executive public expressions
unbecom-
ing an American official,”’ with ‘‘personal
prejudices
impairing
the smooth
course
of public business,””
and
with “‘an avow-
ed
attempt
to
suppress
the
Spanish
language
in
the
Porto
".an
public
schools.””
The resolutions,
if we rightly
understand
them,
suggest
the
removal
of
the
Governor
from
office
for
these
‘easons.
How
far
the
gentlemen
who
make
this highly original suggestion
to
Presi-
dent
HARDING are numerically represent-
ative
of Porto
Rican
sentiment
in
New
York
we
are
not_informed.
But
THE
NEw
YORK
HERALD
is
very
sure
that
sceemed
Americans
of
insular
birth
ould
be
in better
business
for the
true
elfare of rhe beautiful ‘sland t>ey
love
Cheir
motives
must
be either
poiitics
or
patriotism.
If it
is
polities,
it
is
the
solities
of a sinister
cause,
namely,
the
yolitical movement
of the
Independistas
hrough
propaganda
aiming
at
the
se-
.ession
of
Porto
Rico.
If it is
patriot-
ism,
it is
not
American
patriotism
but
something
else.
Governor
REILY was President
HARD-
‘NG 'S
personal
choice
for
a post of ex-
.eptional difficulty and delicacy, owing to
he
headway
the
Lone
Star
Sentiment
4
made
i» the
island in
recent
years,
e
*ho gble and
adroit
politicians who have
used
it for all it was
~
worth
to the very practical
purposes
of
'
local
control,
local
offices
and local
ex-
.
penditures.
Mr.
REILY was
a
business
man in Kansas
City.
Little was
known
‘0
the general
publie of his
capacity for
-
esponsiblz
statesmanship
in an
unusual
|
ituation
before
the
President
picked
|
him out and sent
him down
to the Palace
|
in
San
Juan
to tell
disaffected
elements
;
that Porto
Rico’s future
is
Statehood
and
|
not separation
from the
United States.
;
The
new
G
sernor
had
jot been
many
|
hours
in
the
island
before
his
quality
.
and
texture
were
manifest
to
all
con-
|
cerned.
His
inaugural
clarified
a
situ-
'
ation
which
was
becoming
decidedly
|
turbid.
It delared
plainly the main
fact
|
and
the purpose
from
which
the
Gov-
i
ernor
has
not
departed
ard
will
not
|
depart.
i
“1
want
you
to be
fully aware,’””
he
|
said,
‘that
there
is
no
room
in
Porto
|
Rico for any foreigner
who is not willing
i
to
suppori
and
uphold
our
established
Government.
Neither is
there
any
sym-
pathy
or hope in the
United
States
for
independence
for
Porto
Rico, from
a y
individual or any political party.
Neither
my
friends,
is
there
any place
in these
islands
so:
.ny flag save
the flag of our
beloved
and
common
e~*
o long
as Old Glory con*’
sver
the
“ United
Staf-
i€
to
wave
ever
Por!
In effe
.ac
WOLUMBUS and
the
egg:
so
simpic
and
direct and
natural
a
..unon. ration
of
the
one
way
to treat
.
the Porto Rican situation.
Asevenis
have
|
proceeded
in
the
island,
taere
can
no
|
longer
be
any
doubt
in
auy
mind
that
|
what
Governor
REILY
said
he
really
|
meant,
or
that
what
he said
and
nieant
|
represents
the fixed and
inalterable
pur-
poses
of
the
Government
and people
of
.
the United
States.
;
I'he
whole
policy
and
the
whole
pro-
.
gramme
regarding
Porto
Rico’s future
"
isin
the foregoing.
‘ihe
new
Governor
.
stated
the
case
adequarely,
fearlessly.
|
temperately,
but in language
the
mean-
|
ing of which
cannot
be
mistaken.
That
'
there
should be resistance
In
some
quar-
|
ters
was
Lo have
been
expected
I'nhe Lone
.
Star idea
could
not
disappear
bet ween
.
noon
and sunset.
‘Lhe political
interest
|
of Independista
leaders
in its
mainten-
|
ance
was
too
great
to
be
abandoned
at
:
first call.
But the
leaders
have
learned
|
the
nature
of
the
su
ff
that
is
in
the
|
Executive,
“‘the only
ove
island
execu-
|
tive,”’ as El Tiempo puts
it,
“‘the
Gov-
;
ernor.’’
|
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Governor
has
kept to his announc-
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255,
ed
course
with personal
suavity and
good
humor.,
but
inflexibly.
The
Indepen-
dentista
politicians
have discovered
that
they are
facing
a
man
who
knows
why
he
is
in
the
Palace
and
what
he
is
about.
Recently
when
the titular
‘‘lea-
der
of
the
Independista
party’’,
Don
ANTONIO
BARCELO,
President
rs
the
Senate,
addressed
to the
Go
r a
let-
ter
suggesting
certain
nam.
or
ap
pointment
to
apn
important
¢
(ce
an
intimating in words
savoring of a*tempt
ed
dictaticn
that
a
conference
on
th
gubjcct
might
have
been
arranged,
th.
Governor
replied:
‘1
am
sorry,
my
dear
BARCELO,
chat
you
still
fail
to
comprenend
my
business
here.
You
seem
irot
1o
understard
that t'.e
old or-
der
has
changed.
... You
must
sever
your
connection
with the
Independence
party
and
become
a
local P’) Rican
Ameri-
ilOF
Wwe
eP- "
any
friendly po-
liticai
relati
vant
you
fully tr
undersiand
th...
.
Bhall
never
-
any
one
(o any
office who
is
an
advo-
cate
ol
Independence.
...
All
my
ap-
pointments
will
be
made stricily by o
as
1 do
not intend
to be hampered or|
up.
This is the real
reason
why her2in
|
York ceriain
foliowers
of
the
somew
diseconc:ried
leac
-s
at
San
Juan
assuming
to
advise
cesident
HAT
and ih:
Congress
of
..
Uniied
S
that
Governor
KEILY
is
unfit
for
post.
As
we
have
alread,
rema
they
might
be
in
better
bu.
less.
American public
will appraise \their
iliary protest
at
its
actual
VaNe.
(
ernor
REILY will continue
the ghod
w
he
has
begun.
Porto
Rico
vill
so.
day
become
a
State
in this Unipn’s
s
terhood
of
States,
but
it will leverl
come
a republic
independent
of
the
Un.
ted States.
Furthernote,
THE
NEW
YORK
HER-
ALD firmly believes
that
sepuaration
and
the Lone
Star
flag
are
thz
last
things
desired
by
the
intelligre
.
or
even
the
numerical
majority
o*
the
native pop»
la ion.
The incidentul
conflict
with
fish volitics will
soon
be
over.
Lo
to the flag with
many
stars
1n
its
field
snd
to
the present
relations
tween
mainland
and
island
wlil
Porto Rico’s
destinies.—7 The
New
Herald Sept.
6th.
.. MicDonald’s Alman
For
1922
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