Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-11-02
PRODDED BY PRICHARD.
Joseph a Remarkable Man, But Not
Built the Right Way to Act
for New Mexico in
Congress.
Discussion Of Some Real Issues at So
zorro Statehood and Other
Business Interests.
Corresp0. deuCe New Mexican.


SoooRRo, Nov. Hon, G. W. Prichard
spoke here last night to large audience
He said, in part:
A man who abandons honest and legi-
tlmato discussion to engage in personal
abuse represents bad cause. The Dem
ocratic orators of this territory have
entered the field of public and private
slander, wholly neglecting to discuss any
subject, except the candidate for delegate
on the Republican ticket. | do not be-
lieve i'll the utter depravity of the human
family, as these orators affect to believe
l believe the world is better than it ever
was, and that man has made progress, not
alone in intelligence, but in integrity as
well.
l heard Democratic speaker say a
few evenings ago, that he despised our
candidate for delegate. AS for myself
despise no one; the man who despise5
| another suggests to the mind that the
despiser either has an evil heart, or he
| feels that the man whom he despise3 is
superior to himself. | am willing to be
charitable in this case and will assume
that the motive referred to is born of
envy-a knowledge on the part of the
defamer in question that he is very
small man compared with
THE MAN He ABUSES.
Fellow citizens, the freedom of man is
pre-eminently above all other consdera-
tions. No man can be said to be free
who Is denied the privileges accorded to
other men. In the full sense of Ameri-
can citizenship, none of us are free SO
long as we have no voice as to who our
rulers shall be- Situated as our great
territory is, possessing the great natural
advantages 1t does in undeveloped re-
sources, who can blame us for being am
bilious for change of government?
Every man who is loyal to his govern
ment is entitled to the best government
the country can afford; that such is not
our lot now none will deny, therefore we
are and should be in favor of statehood.
The Democratic voters have suddenly
changed, for they too, are in favor of
statehood, though three years ago they
proclaimed their opposition to the eff
forts of Republicans in that direction
II
Here the speaker entered into lucid
discussion of the tariff as it affects New
Mexico He paid his respects also to that
part of the national Democratic platform
declaring for the repeal of the lay impos-
N g 10 on atai Al h nh
Referring to Mr. Joseph, he said:
ANTHONY JOSEPH
is one of the most remarkable men this
country has ever produced, if we are to
take his word Qaughter.) He has pub
lished list of eighty bills which he
claims to have passed in congress. Joseph
passed them, while the other $50
members of the lower house sat silently
by and watched the performance,
have made little calcula-
tion on this subject, and I find that if
Mr.. Joseph's claims are allowed they
stand as follows' The eighty bills that
he has passed would probably average
three pages to the Dill. This would make
a volume of 240 pages of laws that he has
passed for New Mexico. What has be-
come of these laws if they were passed?
Have any of you ever received a volume
of themY Now, suppose every member
of congress has also passed eighty
bills since Joseph went to Washington.
There has been an average of
about $50 members in the house since he /
went there. Eighty bills multiplied $50
times, would give total of 2S000 laws. /
If these laws averaged three pages each,
there would be $4,000 pages, or 420 vol
umes of 200 pages each. If man should /
of ten pages day, it would take him
!, 400 days, or something over
TWENTY -FOUR YEARS TO PERFORM THE
,Laughter). 1t is perfectly safe to as
sumo that members who can vote on bills .
IN congress can pass just as many bills
as Joseph who can not vote, although
here are few men in the world like Jo-
,eph. 1t is pity that so remarkable a
nan as he would think of burying his
5alents in bath house at the Ojos Cal
entes, when he could do so much good |
Tor the world II he would only let himself |
oose. (Laughter).
Now, the truth is, Joseph has never
passed during his eight years in congress
a bill which was distinctively Joseph |
bill, and he knows it. The bills he refers
to are most of them appropriation bills.
They form only items in a general ap-
propriation bill, and he has had nothing |
to give them except perhaps his good
will, and even that is to be doubted in !
some instances.
He claims to have
ESTABLISHED 200 PosToFFIcEs
since he went to congress. When he went
there in 1884 we had in this territory IG6
postoffices. Now we have about 270. |
The difference between 166, and 27O, is
I0i, j Joseph is the only man in this territory,