New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-16
NEW-MExICAN SOCIETY.
OBSERVATIONS AT THE SANTA FEE CELE
BRATION.

BRATION.
| r.v vxposrr1oS RrrREsKyTrNG TIE WORK OF
ONLY Arrw YEARs-How AMERICAN IDEAS ARE
SPREADING
fyRon AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.
| SANTA FE, July THE opening days Oh the
Exposition that celebrating the $3.50 anniversary o
the settlement of Santa Fe have furnished kind OF
entertainment that would be possible nowhere eiSe
There Is less visitor IN the exhibition tsen
than in the people among whom 1t originated OF VINO arc
part The population of the Territory is not ore
than oneseventh white, while fully six Oh inc
exhibits represent white INDUSTRY capital There are
indiana here whose tribes have lived perhaps fog cen
turtles on the same restricted domain, and In geoerapn
zeal contiguity to other tribes and all TINS ume
have kept not only their blood but their language 0s
tnet and untainted
The shields paint painted oy zun's
in tho days when who lived with Columbus hfst
penetrated New-Mexieo Hardly less fanchm tnhn NJ"
were the hunting of Apaches In those DAYS
and no less their skill with the bow and arrow. Inc
caste OF OF the maststured sofess gangs tns'
are ncluded among the puebe or hutivDy insans' h~
been low far back tradition reaches Anu WIG"
with the southern Indians the Spanish advent"
ers failing to find anticipated Eidcrado and ashamed
to return home empty handed, east their hves'
hybrid rsce sprung up which has ,Joggea
along for three centuries adding htie 10 sne"
mental physical store; not expecting 70 draw SUSIE
nance and spare from soil almost barren; hafJ
caring provide for more than modest daily "sn'''
and content yield to indolsuca
There are rars exceptions 1 heard OF aoxlcsn NV
ing near socorro whose thrift has amassed him TOT
tune all I'm bullion which he is said to keep unaer inc
floor Of house. He demands invariably thirty ohys
ine In which pay for purchases however small anu
promptly the day that payment becomes Cue nc
turns up with bullion to the amount OF the DILL Exactly
weighed out But what he has did not come iron
ID Init from a WAR ina
years with only occasional help His adobe Int Is hte
betIer than the common Of mud novels tnst arc
called houses hereabouts His family have been raised
on the staple Of beans and erked beef with TWO OF
three mixtures Of and he expects 10 go 10 'hs
grave with ~ little OF comfort as Surrounds MIN now
so,e one sskea him not long snce why he DID not take
h,s family travelling and avail himself well ne them
az the means nc his command 10 something OF tue
| world. II happy where j an ne repneo'
.H 1 zee mora L shall want more, ana my
savings might slip away from mo while by staying mere
and knowing nothing beyond shall he sure OF taxing
care of myself" Many others. less industrions nave
for wears dug ore mountains and foothills as
their needs required Some OF the richest land Is hfa
for ,h.s purpose and nothing from sueh aho
/ has found place AZ the Exposition.
| IMPORT OF THE CELEBRATION.
| Ths Indian toe Mexican aud tho American nave
marched ths week in professions led ana piauned oy
| Americans, and have assembled In town as visov
,ra;sr "a Cssta RIGA at celebration that signaiixes
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the advance American institutions among peopio
whose ideas are just rousiRg from the stnargy Oh CON
turfes Calling Exposition tertio-niiennAi IL DUB
giving Il fanciful single count OF the fingers
would exhaust the years thai such of the TERRITORIAL
| industries have eIisted as nave mace pJs-
| slple the showing the cxmDltlOn sthnus-
IL hardly reflection on the people hers OK eef.ny
ave years sneA 81 paslion a. tns eoa nav ,
ne,n ~ ay having 40 HE Ingenuity and progressive
ness OF a minority until within the shorter pe.iou
vs.r- I'm Nc. MexIco ia AN old citizen among Americana;
the ferrt,orI weInwnile. has had 70 endure ponort
L.Wiessness turbulence and vice are only beginning
IN nat 90 masks The first white imporEations were OF
rrrses. character mich Of tho confusion and bioou.
shed viInrSs hsrelbogIs Of late years was nsngaied
not by natiyes-etner Indian or Msxcan-oal oy wb.s
IN allow tnesr influence more than dsquet-
INK IN the Territory have come honest
to law. Heroic treatment IA stlI oeinanheo nut shs
, 2. Ts s Sss oTr the Territory and
tans Legitimate entespEte can aiEessJ anpa
.ar can witness the foehadowng OF an era OF ,nrft
and progress wonderful 70 him "a is unexSmpied IN
The eject Of the Exposition agent OF social reyo
tuition cannot DO doue5sd ,es,nsd SLOWLY % saes
oIker Tenaclty Of haoVt and customs that AAn
almost Instructive among the aboriginal CLANS ana utDes
| sn h. rsIaxed and soiteped by mutual contact. The
ud,aIs will carry back TO their trocs new ana ey1
ing oeas and the must learn thai inc prics OF
iy,ag even m their own couatry aeon DO uEnss-
gne industry which perhaps the Younger
MAY rrurrrd by witnessing tne HuSsoi sum i"SaJ
GROWTH OF AMERICAN IDEAS
J Already IN this town and at Albuquerque and Las
| y.a.s where Americans Obtained foothoid and
where new prcdoninate the Aexcans are drifting
ont of the dark ange into moving ohanneis The black
ares- that the women Will not be made ever or
,ooo.d mn for the children. The will not beat nor
be rain pour many years longer heads never hooded
except by shaws for the darsknned gs are learning
IN ike coiors and their mothers seeing that soft eyes
lock pretier shaded BY and feathers than under
m, uus glare and that the grace Of youthful forms is
| ,nore attractive epcased In white IN summer than
| I'm funeral weeds me dress reform thns started
gaudy leather n haG that would cover the top OF
| a 0our barrel longer carries the potent
! charm that city cavaliers coyet. The young men
| arr beginning to their trousers outside
br snon among natives but they approaching In
tne seIemeuts wnere blood rules Ii shouid not
he loicrrsd the New xicans are yet attractive
| rreaturra Tho adobe mud has settled IN the pores
af t1cir aued tue lustre OF their eyes anu
Sfned their coarse black haIr; but they learning
for otner drinking, that colora uoorn homes
"A we'll "a bodies and one may now occasionally catch
vlfuuses OF budding TASTE through openings In tDc
| sireicbes OF brown walls that define the streets.
Governor sheldon there can be no question that
American ideas growing amUng the natives ke er-
nect Iitfe generation beyond obede
10 Izw but OF the young he has strong hopes we'll
regulated school systen together with good
and The OF sauary laws Will furnish
certain solution the social problem that confrons
doomed extinction and tue Mexican TO Improve
meut American blood aud by ever-fecurrng oOntact
| with modern IDEAS
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