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Progress (and Poverty) in Porto Rico
Warner, Arthur | August 15, 1923 issue

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The article discusses the social conditions in Porto Rico in its twenty-fifth year under American sovereignty. The author focuses on the public instruction and national health of agricultural and industrial conditions and their bearing on the vital issues of increasing the means of subsistence and thus the standard of living of the poverty-stricken masses. Whatever the blunders of American administration in the past, they have been those of ineptitude and tactlessness more often than of autocracy and violence. Porto Rico, under civilian government, has not suffered from an autocratic naval regime such as that in the Virgin Islands and Samoa, not to speak of the worse indignities heaped upon Haiti and Santo Domingo.

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PUERTO Rico -- Social conditions; POVERTY; AGRICULTURE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; COST & standard of living; PUERTO Rico
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