Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-30
A VIGOROUS PROTEST.
Native Resident of Mora County in Forciblt
Way Calls a Halt OIL the Viliication
of New Mexico.

Editor New Mexican.
Weber, n. NJ, Dee. *. For the first
time in my life I nov undertake to
write something for the reading pu0iic,
but | feel that sufficient p~rOvocaticn
has been given to excise me in ;hls
instance. In reading the territorial and
some of the eastern papers on the uuGs-
ton of statehood for New Mexico, the
many slurs that are being cast at this
territory and its people, their injustice
to make any citizen indignant and have
a desire to appeal to the public press
in order to expose some of the very men
who are so busy defaming the fair
name of the fairest section of the IN
ion.
Take the Democratic papers of New
Mexico. They are simply disgusting.
Why do they persist in publishing such
stupid nonsense regarding New Mex
leo? Are they like the dog in the man.
ger? | would like to have one question
answered.: Why did they favor Mr..
Fergusson's endeavors for statehood?
Was it because he is a Democrat? And
now they a~ntagonize statehood because
a Republican delegate-elect and a num-
Der of friends are pushing that cause.
Again, they are agitating the race
question by bringing the unfortunate
Taos affair before the general public.
| Is not this ease of a like nature to those
which happen almost every day in ev-
cry state in the Union, and in the most
civilized communities? And, again, we
read communications from men in the
territory which have been sent to east
ern newspapers, claiming that New
Mexico is not ready for statehood for
| the reaso that the MeXicans are in the
majority, and in case we should be
| given statehood, will secure all the Of
fees and the new state would be ruled
by them; that the Legislature will be
under their control and laws will be
| enacted which will be obnoxious to the
Americans and in a short time New
Mexico will be only for the Mexicans,
Americans will not "be in it" and trash
| of like kind without end.
If this is their only reason, cannot the
same be said of the southern states,
where the negroes are in the majority?
Are they ruling that part of the coun-
try? Take conditions in the eastern
| states, where a majority of the people
are Irish, Scotch, Bohemians, Swedes,
Poles, Italians, Russians and other rep
| resentatives of foreign nations, who
| never saw a peace of real white bread
until they came to America, and four
ffths of them do not know the differ
ence between B and b%ullsfoot, are these
peoples ruling the country? The same
men who are now throwing 50 much
dirt at New Mexico and the Mexicans,
or at least a large number of them, do
not dare go back to the states for fear
of prosecution, are living under assum-
ed names, which a Mexican was never
known to do until the advent of the
railroads and he vas placed under the
tutilage of the highly civilized white
man (white in name but in actions as
black as the ace of spades). These
same men, with their exalted wisdom,
have asked refuge among the poor, ig-
norant MeXicans, have eaten their
bread and tortillas when hungry, pur-
| sued and worn out, and now they arc
repaying those kindnesses by throwing
p1IJ1 of MayinonS u,hA,, Iopro, Il, ~,et
hunger has been %appeased and prosper
ity has come to them. Where did they
make their success in life? Among the
poor, despised. ignorant Mexicans who
their gratitude today? Scorn and viii
LITIGATION of those who took them in and
gave them the last crumb of bread in
the house.
These same men are constantly adj
vertising for a larger immigration of
white people. Will that immigration
come when the inducements held out
are filled with villiications of the peo-
pie now in the territory? Who wants a
class of ignorant, vicious, good-for-
naught people for neighbors and fell
low citizens? l am of the opinion that
it would be vastly better for the terri
tory, it's future and prosperity if all
such smart Alexis would keep their
smartness, their slanderous talk to
themselves. If they a say nothing
good of the people who have befriended
them in the past, let them at least say
nothing that will harm the best friends
they ever had in their lives. They
should, by good words and hard work,
push the cause of statehood along, and
show their gratitude for past favors
that much, any way, but if in the fut-
ure they continue to BLACKBOARD the
good name of New Mexico and it's peo-
pie, it would be better for every one
concerned if they would roll their pack
and leave for some country where the
people are more agreeable to them,
where their own kind are more umer
Gus. b. Fl. Is.