Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-07-11

the companionship of the boys, hard
ly deserves notice; the poor have few
of the Injuries, but an abundance of
the necessaries of life.
THEIR WANTS ARE Few;
they live within their means and pay
their debts with proverbial prompt
ness. The burro Is a faithful little
animal, easily kept, and renders val
liable servlce,such as no other animal
can, in carrying heavy burdens along
the narrow roads and devious trails
of this mountainous and arid region.
The Mexican women, married as
well as single,are faithful and chaste.
The contrary is the exception, the
same as among other races. Most of
the vice existing in the territory is
not Indigenous. Take, for example,
Las Vegas, the town from which the
gentleman appears to have written
his article. Who are the harlots that
infest the streets, dens and plazas of
that beautiful city? Two-thirds of
them at least are Americans, who
never think of "absolving the foul
practices of the night by reverend
invocations and penance during the
day" Had your correspondent asked
the many noble, vlrtuous American
protestant ladies residing in Las We
gas and the other cities visited by
him what class of people impress the
foul plague spot of immortality upon
the face of Mexican society,he would
have been told-American prostitutes
and American gamblers. The Mexi-
can wife is pre.eminently faithful,
and the Mexican girl is, with rare
exception, modest and chaste. If
the truth must be told,l is but simple
justice to say that the Americans, so
called, consisting of people from the
eastern states, as well as natives of
Germany, France and ireland, form
about one-fourth of the population;
and it is notorious that they supply
the territory with more harlots, gam
blers and professional desperadoes
than the remaining three-fourths of
the Hispano-Americans. Why blame
the native race for the crimes and
vices imported and practiced by 9TH
err people? As to
THE ADOBE HUTs,
with one door, ETC., which appear to
have impressed very unfavorably the
mind of your correspondent, it may |
be truthfully remarked that they are |
in many respects equal,lf not superior
to the log cabins of half century
ago which furnished the hardy Amer
ican pioneer farmer of Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois with home and castle.
II the adobe residence house of the
New Mexican has few doors and
it was so constructed to
protect the family from the hostile
raids of the relentless Navajo and
Apache. Had your correspondent
mad time to go some distance away
from his palatial Pullman car and
travelled into the fertile and watered
valleys of the Taos and Mora, he
would have found many a New Mex
can farmer enjoying as comfortable
md commodious a home as any of
lis agricultural brethren in the east
,rn states. The lands around Las
Vegas and Santa Fe, though rich and
'ertile, cannot be rendered productive
without rain or its equivalent in arti-
icial irrigation. 1t requires time
md capital to construct irrigating
litches. These lands are under a
ainless sky. The poor, neglected
natives, but recently redeemed from
species of serfdom as enervating
nd cherries as slavery, have not the
means requisite successfully to prose
ute such expensive improvements.
t the American congress admit the
erritory into the union as a state; if
he eastern states send into New Mex.
co capital and skilled labor, instead
WORTHLESS ADVENTURES,
politicians and criminals, !
he time is not far distant when the
atives of New Mexico will prove
heir ability to cope successfully with
he most favored of the republic in l
II the modern pursuits and enter I
rises OF American life. The Mexi-
ans fully recognize and avow the
act that they are part and parcel
f this great republic, and are proud .
f the results of the war and Of the {
reaty that bestowed upon them all .
ne rights of American freemen. ]
lew Mexico is their native land. q
heir race has occupied the territory {
ince the year 1910, more than hun. I
red years before the Pilgrims I
lnded at Plymouth Rock. .
hey love its every mountain
eak, canon and valley. They are
1uallV attached TO the free lnstitu-