San Juan, P.R., September 19, 1930 Mr. Luis Venegas Cortés, President of the University Committee Pro-Victims of Santo Domingo, Río Piedras, P.R.
Friend of all my esteem:
I acknowledge receipt of your moving communication accompanied by the check number 7402, drawn by the University, charged to the “Banco Territorial y Agrícola” of Río Piedras and endorsed to me, for the sum of four hundred ninety-eight dollars fifty cents, amount of the funds raised to date among university students to help the victims of Santo Domingo. You inform me that the Dominican University Pro-Victims Committee agreed to make the remittance through the mediation of the Nationalist Party.
On behalf of our Party, I accept the noble commission and will immediately send to the Excmo. Mr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic, the funds placed at the disposal of his government for the charitable purpose you have arranged.
No Puerto Rican act before the catastrophe that has filled us with sorrow has the transcendence of yours. It indicates, first, the clear orientation of university students in national and international issues. In that heroic nation, noble and hospitable, to the exaggeration, if in that order it can be exaggerated, no memory of its immense pain will produce the emotion that yours will. Here is absolute disinterest and a love of brothers to brothers.
The ideal of the Antillean Confederation will be realized by the present Antillean youth because it is willing to create a power that is to impose itself on every invader.
This heartfelt act of yours is the message of solidarity that announces the era that is already glimpsed.
Our Party, which in reality is not a Party, but the Homeland organized to rescue its sovereignty, so that even those who today combat the Independence can enjoy the dignity of being free, enjoys the respect and sympathy of all Dominicans because of the purpose it pursues. And they will be pleased that this demonstration of your sensitivity reaches them through our mediation.
With my cordial congratulations for the work of nobles,
I am yours truly,
P. ALBIZU CAMPOS