The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1888-04-14
e How this World is Given to Lying.

rid itself OF the habit. Every CITY
little town, and even settlement
hiss it's champion local liar-al
except White Oaks. We had sew
eral here at one time, but the eff
forts OF all paled in the presence
OF one superior genius, and they
went out of the business. Even
tually the champion liar moved tc
Nogal, bat his position here is still
vacant, and will be hard to fill.
Congress has long held the belt
over every other parliamentary body
IN the world as an amphitheatre i'll
which liars could cavert at will aud
disport their preyaricating powers.
A few days ago it reached the eli
max, the zenith, height so great
as to cause all outside ambition in
THAI line to first become dizzy i'll
contemplating the immensely Of
space travelled from the realm OF
truth, then confusion on consider
ing the secure equoipose achieved
on the elevated seat, and lastly, ex-
haustlon Of effort to emulate. 1t
was on the occasion OF the presen-
tation in the lower house or Con
gress Of the majority and minority
reports touching the admission OF
| New Mexico and other Territories
as States into the Union. The mi
noritv report presented several
points as facts, among which were
the following:
1st. That the people OF New
Mexico have retained all the vices
and meme OF the virtues Of their an
cestors.
2nd. "That the practice of the
two sexes living together out OF
wedlock, and raising families in
this unholy connection, is the al
most universal custom.
3rd. That the custom of carry
ing firearms is so common that
when the people repair t" the house
of God, they 20 better prepared to
resist the assassin than to worship
their Maker" u"
Talk about "taking the cake )"
if this doesn't despoil whole ba
kerry then we're no Judge OF pie.
Why, the very opposite is true
He who originated the minority
report was probably never nearer
New Mexico than the truth WAS to
him.
lie probably read what a U. 5.
officer facetiously remarked at the
time of the acquisition OF New
Mexico by the United States, that
this was country in which "tiow-
ers have no fragrance, men no hon
or, women ne virtue," and the po'
etry captivated his senses and set
tied upon his memory. thus rem
dering fancy fact.
When New Mexico was first ab
sorbed by our Government it rep
resented in it's population all the
virtues and vices common to ethel
communities. But now the popu
latien has become homogeneous
and when the ancestry OF our peo
ple is alluded to reference must b'
to native and acquired citizens
But in either sense the accusation
, Is lHlSG anu CIuCls OuA hNuA' y NA''
zens were tractable from the start
have .intermarried with what the
before considered and contenptu
ously termed "gringos," and ''for
+ eigners," educate their children Il
| English speaking schools, use moo
a, ern labor-saving machinery in ihe'
; industrial pursuits. observe tn
Sabbath, attend church, and i
= all par excellence essentials wi
size up with the average of Anne
leans generally-and not only rha
: they rightfully claim to be, an
boast that they are American CIT
zens.
Number 2 is such a transparel
n misrepresentation that serisous re
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