Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-02-11
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JUSTICE ASKED.
COlOrado's Senate Concurs in the Demand
for New Mexico's Admission.

for New Mexico's Admission.
DENVER, Feb. 9.--The senate went into
committee OF the whole upon the genera
orders of the day with Senator Beckwitl
in the chair.
The consideration was resumed on join
memorial No. 7, praying the admission o.
New Mexico to statehood, and Senator
Barela spoke at length. He said:
Let me briefly give some unquestioned
data touching the area, the population
the productions and advancement of this
great territory: 1t contains an area OF
more than l22,000 square miles, $4,000
square miles more than the area of oul
own state. Its population is fully 10000
and in this connection make the start
ling, though nevertheless truthful, an
nouncement that not another state during
our century Of history possessed on its adj
mission to the union so large population
as this. Its population is permanent
The great numbers added to it during the
past five years have been almost entirely
agricultural, and the wonderful variety in
the product of the soil, the fruits of the
trees and the vine, with the wheat, oats
corn and barley, insure not only contin-
uance OF its former rapid growth, but that
the additions to its population shall be of
the most desirable and worthy people in
the land.
doubt if any other like area within the
limits of the United States can show as
great variety OF natural resources as are
to be found within the New Mexican
borders. With its mineral, agricultural
and horticultural advantages; with its
vast beds of coal, both bituminous and
anthracite; with its fruit of every kind,
immense in growth and luscious in flavor ;
with its mines of gold and silver, produc-
ing from them alone nearly s. 900 900 in
wealth each year, no state insures q
brighter or happier future to its population
than does it. do not deny but that the
ratio of illteracy among the old native
population was quite high when New
Mexico first became part of the Ameri-
can territory, but that is being rapidly
changed. Official reports show that the
ratio was reduced more than 20 per cent
in five years, and its present governor, in
a very recent letter to the president, as
sured him that Gin no community have
more persistent and successful efforts
been inaugurated for the promotion of
public education that in New Mexico with
in the last five years" According to the
statement of a gentleman of unquestioned
veracity and thorough information, lately
published in the New York Tribune, she
has over l50 public schools and larger
share OF her taxes is appropriated to edu-
cation than in any state or territory in the
union; and this is true, though she has a
limited school fund, because she has not
been able to add to it the proceeds from
two sections in every township of land in
the territory, nor the proceeds of other
donations of other public lands made by
the government to the other states when
admitted to the union. Of course, with
her admission into the union this will be
remedied, for the public lands that have
made possible the grand school system of
Colorado will then be hers and that she
will but them to good use the present and
past in her history assure us.
When | speak of the character of her
population | am inclined, though | re-
strain myself, to resent the manygratui-
tous insults heaped upon her by her enc
mics; for illustration. it has been de-
clared that four-ffths of the population
are peon-Aztec Indian. The truth is, as
shown by the latest trustworthy reports,
about 10000 are Pueblo Indians, while
about 100000 are native Mexcans and
10000 are Americans, most of whom
have settled in the territory within the
past decade. The Pueblo Indians do not
vote. While the bulk of the native Mex
leans may not be as pushing and aggress-
i've and enterprising as their Anglo-Saxon
brothers, they are conservative and con-
scientious, and will give to New Mexico
the special advantage that conservative
citizenship will always give to the pushing,
restless and aggressive population in a
western country as self-governing muni-
cipallty. This very conservatism, insured
by its native Mexican population, will
secure New Mexico, when state in the
union, from the disastrous financial re-
verses, that 80 often overtake western
countries in the earlier stages of self-gov-
ernment. 1t will stand as Il bulwark
against heavy taxation and Indebtedness :;
its several communities will not be loaded
down with interest bearing bonds and the
many other ingenious devices for sad
ding debt upon poor and struggling COM
munities in the name and under the pre-
tense of public government.
There is every incentive for Colorado to
desire the admission Of New Mexico into
the union. Linked together as Colorado
and New Mexico are, in history, in re-
sources, in population and advancement,
whatever inures to the benefit of one
must give like advantage and benefit to
the other. The people of New Mexico
are appreciative and grateful. If they
are made to realize that the people Of