Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-01

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lieve that Pedro Perea would have
made such an expensive mistake? Or
do you believe that if he had made such
a mistake he would nave come before
his constituents and recommended
himself to o for having obtained the
passage of an act which cannot be en-
forced2 That is what Mr.. FERGUSON
does. You cannot get these lands until
the legislature of New Mexico appro-
PIRATES $17,0 900 of money taken from
you by taxation, when by writing five
or six words in the bill Mr.. Ferguson
could have saved you all of his money.
This will have to be paid by you. 1t
comes from your pockets, and those of
GREAT INJURY DON NEW MEXICo.
that act has done us a great injury.
When | was in congress, L obtained
from that committee a report upon
statehood, a recommendation that a
statehood bill be passed; not only in
the house, but in the senate as well. 1t
is true hat Mr.. FERGUSON asked the
committee to pass his bill, and they
said to him, why do you want it passed,
and he said that also in the halls of
congress, when he obtained an opportu-
nifty to speak on some subject, and like
his mistakes in getting his amendment
in, made the speech in the wrong place
was, l wanted to get those public
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that belong to the educational institu-
tions, those that belong to the territory
for it's public institutions, and such
| others as we might be able to get. He
said the lands We're being used up out
there and we will not be able to get the
| best of them. AS to the public school
lands, there was no danger, because the
organic act in 1851 reserved the 10Th
and 32d sections of every township for
| school purposes. Those were reserved
as securely for our benefit as this act
could pass them, but there might nave
been some injury to he territory by
taking up the other lands, which might
be used for public institutions. In that
respect he is right, even If we ignore
everything else in connection with the
bill. But they said to him, if that is the
only reason why you want statehood,
the only reason you can give us, in
we will give them to you. They were
glad to escape from the statehood idea
by giving us these lands, and your del
egate grabbed at it like a little fish at
a big hook. He introduced the bill and
congress passed the act and we cannot
get the benefit of it, but hat delegate
STATEHOOD KILLED.
killed statehood as dead as an oX shot |
through the heart. He had removed
the only argument he had for state
hood; he had taken way the only ar
gument he had why New Mexico should
be advanced to state sovereignty, he
could go no longer into the halls of con
gress and ask for statehood and ask to
make you citizens of the United States
in the true sense of the word, to allow
you to enjoy the benefits which state
hood could bring us, to elect your own
governor, your own judges, to send SEN
ators and representatives to congress
with votes, to ask for the said aid and
assistance which is constantly given to
other states. Fellow citizens, if you
had senators and representatives in
two or three hundred thousand dollars
appropriated to keep in order the Rio
Grande, to prepare it so that all the
water that runs below the surface
could be held into a single channel
which would increase the quantity for
your use, and the people of this great
valley would be benefited thereby from
one end to the other. SO that there |
might be enough water to supply the
bitches of these people who seek to APP
propriate the waters which you now
claim. And as l understand it there
would not be only water enough for
your own bitches, but a surplus enough
for 1000 more. Give us a state, let us
make u own laws, let us look out for
ourselves, let us ecu the appoint
ment of our officers from our citizens,
and let us say to congress we are equal
to any other state in the Union; when
we want o to pass one for the Rio
Grande and the Pecos and our other
streams. We who are citizens of this
great country, we who are entitled to
all the benefits that come from the pub
lie treasury. But your delegate in
mgr claims credit for having killed
that act and asks you to send him back
and tells you that his opponent is so
low, so ignorant, is so debased, is so
uneducated that he cannot even APP |
proach the president, hat he cannot in
troduce an act in congress, that he can
not offer an amendment, that he cannot
make a motion before a committee, or
ask for anything that he wants. This
is an insult to you. 1t is a much great
er insult when you are shown what this
delegate has one and what he has not
done and has pretended to do. Look at
that platform to which / have alluded
and you will see that a great portion of
it praises it's delegate in congress for
his efforts, not for what he has done.
but for the little things that he has
tried to do. We want somebody in
who can do, not only a man
who will try, but one who will accom-
plish something, one who will go there
with confidence, representing his own
people, and who will be received with
open arms by the administration, be-
in the same principles, ready to
support him because he belongs to the
great party of progress and prosperity,
which looks out for the welfare add in
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