Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1894-11-03

'hnrH- their duties In u paiuStAking and
tRcient manner.
IT
To LtsrKS Ia Joseph t-llns now he pro.
uuIe, tue i,sSsag- of the act creating the
court uf private land claims. reminds one
of the old man who thought b. helped the
odd woman kill the msrsuding hear. by
speaking words IL .ncour cement Ia her
from the head Of the stairs There were
tihy i"npl. in J@-ph's audience tina,
knew we'll that 1t topk ten years II -finr,
"n the par, u ,b. ,erriioi iAl officials, aud
the territorial legislature by memoriAls,
etc and like time by the bar associa-
ton by Petitions. etc and n like time by
the citizens at the territory, in sending
special envuys and delegations Ia WISH
ing,nn, AMI the writing II thousands u,u.n
thousands Il letters 10 get that act
pansod, and finally 1t was only done by .
republican president putting u request
for the law in his messsg. Ia congr-sr,
after he had he-n requested by the M"z.
lean minister To ~. that our government,
KEEP, the treaty Of Guaialoure Hiialgo
Jos.ph's slrech did NJ, tend Ia en'hus'
those of his auditors who had this knowl-
edge.
BKyoRk the admission of the northern
territories few years ago. the delegates
rum all the territories furmssi quite n little
band OF patriots without u vote, in Wash
ington, and soin. II them made the w-,k,n
ring whenever they got the hor, Atri
made some oi til. down-ast.rs who
thought sligh,ingly Il the wild and sooliy
west, think that u Patrick Henry hah
come To life This WAS notably tho case
when Delegate Toole, II Montana. made
his great speech in 1883 IN the house Il,
removed all oppo~i,ion TO the omnibus
statehood bill. Ioole and several of his
colleagues were intellectual giants, bu,
they always regarded Joseph At his real
value, n simple god na,ured clerk aud
seed distributor. Joseph has never oh.
tanned tf,y Thousand dollars in appropri.
atoms for the territory that would no,
have com. Jus, az we'll without him. Then
let ua send man there that will do some
good.
OSE IL the meet silly campaign lies Of
he year Was made the other day by Gov.
Boies II Iowa He said: "ln New Mex
leo there sre immense syndicates engag'
ed In grazing sheep on government, land
which cost them nothing In our state
where land 10 valuable, II has been found
impossible 10 compete with the sheep
h.rlrrs Of New Mexico and the industry
has gradually died out. The tariff i'm.
posed ou wool by the Mckinley law ben
Gifted the owners Of these vss, sheep IN.
terrs,s In New Mexico. but it's only effect
On ur was to raise the price Of the com
moii, .s in which wool was used"
TIN I.xR, who has given u certificate ii
character 70 Mr. Joseph, Was = pos,offics
inspector in this territory in 1854, and
was removed for accepting . bribe al
300 from Parker & Tyrrell, mail con,
tractors, who had the Fort Stanton and
Roswell route aud wished IL discontinued
and Lee would not make . favorable ~
port unless he received 800. Tim gave
the firm = receipt ske,ing the above fact
and II reached Washington and he wA'
instantly removed. Lee always insiS'e'
that Catron caused his removal, anc
hence the Animosi,y u "Col." Lse.
JosErR lied in his speech about the con
sti u,ion Of 1889 when he SAID that II ex
cspted land grants irom taxation withou
qualification. and when be said that i, pro
vidsd that II could no, be amended excep
by the consent IL the United States. fo
tina, clause only applied to the polygam!
clause and the teaching Of English au'
the keeping non seetAriAn Of the publ
schools yet he said that provision va
general. The same clause was In the con
s,itutions Of all territories recently ad
mi,ted. aud will forever hereafter 10 u
the consultations Of now stA'es
JosKra nigh, As we'll claim TO be th
author % day and nigh, - 70 claim ths
he ever did thing IN ssou's any Appro
priation for our Indian school In fac'
Joseph canno, put his finger on s!nsl
thing he ever did for Albuquerque, "a
cept IN discriminate Unnecessarily
against It in his statehood bill with rste'
.ncs Ia tho University. He cannot clsil
that il was . mistake for he was wri,ts
fully sbou, II by sosss Of our citizens.
IL the democratic party In this city Al
county 10 no, dragged in 'front.' a.
"ripPSd up the back" Appearances ~
, wosfully dsosisfal.