Show Porto Ricans Observe Day of Emancipation SAN JUAN Porto Rico March 22 UP Porto UP Porto Rico celebrated emancipation day today Speakers rs at meetings throughout the country referred to tho the fact that abolition of oC negro slavery was brought about hero here by a decree of or orthe the national assembly of tho the short short- lived Spanish h republic of ot 1873 The They praised President Abraham Abrham Lincoln although he actual actually is not the great emancipator to these people Tho The Spanish statesman whose name the tho Porto Ricans coupled with wih that of ot Lincoln was tho the republic orator Emillo Castelar Castell The relationship of or the tho races here hero is radically different from that of ot any other community of oC American citizens Tie The tolerant attitude of ot the Spanish colonizers of or P Porto PortoRico Rico generally ha has beep been beel accepted in explanation naton of or this fact act |