Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-07-29
WESTERN LIBERAL.
toRpsH6RG, JULY 90, 1899.

w. n. small OF the Ell Pas0 foundry
was in the city the first OF the week
en- route to Clifton.
Some person supposed to be a 30,
with a sling shot, put a stone through
one Of the drug store windows the
other day.
Mrs. Baylor Shannon, who has been
visiting in Silver City, has returned tc
her home on the banks OF the clasic
ella; at Duncan.
Mrs. J. r. Ownby has raised some
beautiful roses in her front yard this
summer, samples of which have been
on exhibition at the LIBERAL office.
Mrs. L. v. McCourt, accompanied
by her daughter and Miss May Leahy
came ia from Wilcox Sunday, and Is
visiting with her brothers, the Messrs.
neahY.
10 Terrill was in the city the Grst OF
the week and received a shipment OF
horses sent here for the Joe IIampson
ranch. They we're as fine lot Of horses
as has been seen in town in a long
time.
Mrs Dickinson, Miss Lulu Dickin-
bon, Mrs. Colby, Miss Ida Cain, Miss
Emma Marble, and John T. Muir com.
pose a camping party now enjoying
rural life at the ella hot springs.-In-
dependent.
Joe Lavoff Of the Southern Pacific
force, has returned FROM a TIP to the
CITY OF Mexico. Mr.. Lavoff was great
" pleased with the Mexican capitals
which he says compares favorably
with many American cities and is far
ahead Of any other Mexican city be
ever saw.
A largely signed petition for the
establishment OF a post Office at Rich
mond has been forwarded to Governor
Otero, and the governor writes that
he has forwarded the petition to the
p~ostofice department with the recon-
mendatlon that the Office be estab
lished, aud says be has no doubt that
the petition will be granted:
The Enterprise of Silver City thinks
it has found a specific remedy for that
trouble of Jul body polite which is
commonly known as the "Mexican
question:" 1t is generally known that
the Mc&lcahs, aud by "Mexicans" is
tneaut that portion of the population
Of our territory who are Of Mexican or
Spanish descent aud who speak Span
ISL as their native language, are not
Soitf.Gy 20 the frunt ia the difficulties.
that are now confronting the Uuited
States. The Enterprise claims that
10 remedy this defect all the people
should speak the English language.
IL says that TO have a uniform.
Homogeneous; successful ration, il
should not only lie Under one
constitution, governed by one set
Of laws, but also It's citizens should
speak 3nt l&nguage; that IL all the
Mexicans ia the territory spoke the
English language they would not have
remembered their Spanish descent,
and would have freely enlisted in this
War. The LIBERAL is Of the opinion
that the Enterprise is nearly right Ia
It's views. The writer has lived in
other places where there were a great
many people who did not speak the
English language, and has observed
That among them the ones VINO maze
the best citizens, who were the most
patriotic, and who did the best in a
financial way were the ones who i'm
mediately became Americanlzed In
the language they spoke. They may
not have mastered the language ia all
It's details; many Of them spukeit with
a decided accent, but they became
proficient enough in 1t to read the
Dapers aud to listen with understand
ing to a sermon or a speech. On the
other hand those who refused to learn
enough English to carry on a CONVEX
sation with their neighGors, who pun
lshcd their children for talking
English, and who could not pay their
taxes without the aid of an interpre-
ter. never amounted to much as citi-
zeus or anything else. At one time a
great deal Of attention was paid TO
these people, the Ifoilanders, by the
the state authorities of Michigan
The governors message and other I'M
portant state documents were trans
lated and printed in their language,
but it was soon found that this was
but a snap for some local politician
who spoke both languages, and it was
abandoned. Recently the supreme
court of the state has held that alcgal
notice printed in a paper that Is print
ed wholly in the Holland language Is
not a legal publication in that state,
chat 1t does not give notice to the
public, but to a very limited portiono of
the public and that portion practically
foreigner. The remedy the Enter
prise would apply is to forbid a man
voting or sitting on a jury unless be
.ao~etoAd the EnpliSh DfO-