Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-24

aeology is not science. In the same ar
ticle he claims the cliff jewellers were
a special creation Of God and the utter
extinction of the same; that neither the
gorilla nor Adam had any hand in their
propagation. Such archaeology is lu-
macy. 1t is on a par with the tempered
copper, the runic inscriptions and He
brew characters so often reported by
rustics of powerful imaginations. / am
not qualified to state what is not in the
territory, but I hope to make clear what
I have really seen with my own eyes,
describe it's appearance II locality,
and tell the tourist or student how to
get to it, and properly see it, matters
which 1 could not ascertain except by
personal experience. I knew, of course,
that there were cliff dwellings e
Flagstaff, Ariz. 1t took me nearly three
months on the ground to learn of the
existence of these near Santa Fe. Now
as to the reason of their being. Any
thing but concealment or secrecy. Mrs.
Wallace or even the Smithsonian Insti-
tute to the contrary Notwithstanding,
"a city that is set on a hill cannot be
hid" says the Savior. Seven miles
across the mesa those towering white
cliffs, with their rows of holes like swal-
lows nests, can be plainly seen. Fiji
teen miles across the Rio Grande, on the
road to Santa Fee, on a direct line with
the solitary eminence known as Round
mountain, the white rock / have more
fully described can be plainly seen, but
without it's birds nests. No city that I
have ever seen can be viewed so far off.
Athens was first built on and then
around it's Acropolis. Carthage first on
and then around it's hill. Rome first on
and then around it's capitol; Constan-
tine, Africa, Tyre, Troy and Jerusalem
will readily occur to the reader of his
tory. Paris owes it's situation to the lit
tie island in the Seine, and even Eng
land owes it's present power to her high
chalky cliffs and the "inviolate sea-"
RACE EXTINCTION.
What Rome, Athens, Carthage were
to the surrounding regions, that city,
"nameless now forevermore," was to
the nomad tribes of America. The first
requisites Of a barbarous people in &
cold country, with nc way of carrying
burdens save on their own backs, no
domestic animals save dogs, are plenty
of good water and fuel close at hand,
then plenty Of game; but after these,
security from enemies, with which Sc
curity means of offense inevitably fol-
low. Wood and water was right at hand
in unlimited quantities. In winter game
always seeks the forests. In Illinois,
along the water streams in the woods,
Indian stone relics are found by BUSH
els. On the prairies seldom or not at all.
Who were the people. and why did they
abandon their city? They were the an
cestors of all the Pueblo Indians, now
living up and down the Rio Grande and
other New Mexican rivers. History
knows of no extinct people, nor were
any ace of human beings ever exter-
minated in wal. Mar first of all, prior
to being a reasoning creature or pos
sessing an immortal soul, is an animal.
No race of mar would exterminate the
females of his own kind. Even the an
imals would not do that. Absorption by
a conqueror is MOI extinction. The time
will come when there will not be a ne
gro or Indian in the present limits of the
United States, but they will no be ex-
terminated. 1t is a well-known princi-
pie of ethnology that the smaller num-
Der Of people is always absorbed by the
larger. Two hundred millions of whites
will absorb the small number of negroes
and Indians until they leave no more
impression than a drop of blueing in a
rain barrel. There are now as many In
dams within the United States as at
the time of the discovery. But the in