The Monticellonian., 1898-08-26
SENATOR JONES ROASTED.
And Arkansas Held Up TO the Gaze
of the World in Lurid Letters.
fAlhnquera ue iN.M J Citizen.

NEW MthlCO 1dS DOlHC liilI III
dignities with patient fortitude,
but there is limit to human en-
duranee. Senator Jones, of the
backwoods state of Arkansas, has
laid the last straw on the camel's
back. He says that Spanish-Ameri-
cans are not capable of self-govern-
ment. Several of lis may have
said the same thing, but that was
among ourselves. a sheer like
that from a man named Jones is
equal to a kick from man named
Smith; and coming from man
named Jones from benighted Ark
ansas is doubly insulting to our
Castilian blood The idea of man
from Arkansas talking about any
body not being capable of selfgov-
ernment is SO widely preposterous
that it reaches the subImity of the
ridiculous, and especially from a
man named Jones! Who ever
heard of Arkansas except III a dis
reputable way It's Legrees were
its gentlemen before the war, and
earpetbaggers from everywhere
have controlled it since that time.
In literature, politics, religion, the
arts and sciences. in fact, every
thing that goes to make up a great
commonwealth. Arkansas Is a
blank. Its people think the ne
eessities of life are corn bread and
bacon, and the luxuries of exist
anee drinking whiskey and whip
ping negroes. Nearly all of the
people Of Arkansas believe that the
world would be flat We're IL not for
the Ozark hills. Senator ZONES,
the most enlightened man IN the
state, actually believes thai The
way TO make nation rich Is to
coin cheap money, and that the
government fiat could make a dol
lar out of coon skin. A few years
ago few of the slab-sided resi-
dents of Arkansas reached New
Mexico. 1t was when Cleveland
was president. He made them
Federal officials All they learned
here in four years was to drink
cocktails instead Of whiskey
straight. There are sections of
country in Arkansas where the
people are so densely ignorant that
they do not know that a war with
, Spain is in progress, and do not
know whether Spain is in Texas or
Mexico. The rate of illiteracy is
frightful. The Democratic party
holds the state in lis deadly grip
by stutfing the ballot boxes and
now and then removing opposition
leaders by assassination. Arkan-
| sas is not fitted to criticise any
body on selfgovernment, and its
man Jones is not big enough to
know the first rudiments of politi-
cal economy, and no back talk
from such pin-headed statesman
will be permitted.
The coyote who wrote the above
is, unquestionably, near relative
of Gen. Blanco. and fred the above
sluice of mud and slang at our state
because Of his chagrin and mortif-
cation over the downfall Of his
kinsmen country.
The people of Arkansas may be
four years in learning the differ
ence between cocktails and whis-
key straight, but it will not re-
quire minutes time for them TO
decide that the editor of the CAL
buquerque q. NJ Citizen, is not
only a fool, but an egregious ass,
as well.
If he is a specimen of the eiti-
zenship of New Mexico, we guar
antee that no well-bred Arkansian
will envy that country its possess
ions in that line.
We are proud Of the fact that he
diseloses enough of his sinking
identity to show that he is either a
Republican or Populist, for we
would, indeed, be sorry to know
that there was Democrat living
who would pen such a vile SANDER
upon this state and lis citizens.