Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-01-19

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Union as a state has met with certain
amount of opposition in congress and else
where. 1t is believed that this proceeds
from want Of knowledge of the facts
and unioundel prejudice against the
people.
In 1874 the house passed, by a two
thirds majority, an enabling act authorz-
ing the people of the territory to form a
state constitution. The senate concurrred
in this bill by like majority, adding an
unmportant amendment to this bill This
was near the close OF the session of con-
gress, and it was found impossible to take
the bill from the speakers table, so the
amendment could be concurred in. The
final defeat of the bill was due to Demo-
cratic opposition in the house. But for
this New Mexico would long ago have be-
come state.
Since then New Mexico has been in
crcasing in population, wealth and intel
igence No one disputes that she has
the requisitive number Of inhabitants to
authorize admission or that she has ably
to maintain state government. 1t is
true that majority OF the population is
Mexican but this should be no objection
| United States, not by their choice, but by
the fortunes of war. Statistics will show
that less crime is committed III New Mex
leo than in many states of the Union
The people there were loyal to the Union:
and furnished more than their quota o.
troops during the war
The claims of New Mexico for admis-
sion rest in part upon promises made by
United States officials during the war
with Mexico more than forty years ago,
and treaty Obligations
In 1916 Gen. S. w. Kearney. in oc-
cupying the territory with his army, in a
proclamation to the people OF New Mex
leo, said:
1t is the wish and intention of the
United States to provide for New Mexico
free government, with the least possible
delay, similar to those in the United
States, and the people of New Mexico will
then be called upon to exercise the rights
of free men in electing their own rep
resentatives to the territorial legislature.
Following this the ninth article of the
| treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, between the
United States and Mexico, declares:
Mexicans who are in the territory afore-
said shall not preserve the character Of
citizens of the Mexican republic, but, con-
formally with what is stipulated in the
proceeding article shall be incorporated
in the union of the United States, and be
admitted at the proper time Ito be judged
in congress OF the United States) to the
enjoyment of all the rights Of the citizens
of the United States according to the
principles of the constitution.
President Taylor, shortly after the date
OF this treaty, advised the people occupy
ing the territory coded to the United
States by Mexico to apply for admission
into the union. In his annual message
on the 4th of December, 1919, he said:
THE people of New Mexico will also, it
is believed, at no distant period, present
themselves for admission"
For more than forty years the promises
made to the people of New Mexico and
the treaty obligations entered into between
the two governments have not been kept
and observed. The people Of New Mexico
have just cause OF complaint when they
see other territories admitted as states and
New Mexico refused admission. Such
action is not keeping treaty faith and
pledges.
In urging the admission OF New Mexico,
Congressman Springer is right. 1t is
rarely the case that he is right or has
sound judgment on public questions. AS
a statesman Springer is not Il success. He
is without culture or learning, awkward in
mind and method, with but limited in
formation, yet in the matter of the adj
mission of New Mexico he is right. 1t is
said he believes, if admitted, New Mexico
will be Democratic.
The admission of territory should not
depend upon what its politics may be, but
upon its right to admission.-New York
Graphic.
The steady fight the decent papers OF
New Mexico are making on behalf OF this
territory are bearing fruit. Several of the
influential papers of the country hereto
fore unfriendly to New Mexico are es-
pousing its cause The New MEXICAN is
extremely gratifed to find that such pow
erful journals as the Chicago Inter-Ocean
and the New York Graphic are giving our
cause deserved aid. Let the good work
on