Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-01-09
PROGRESS OF new MEXICO
Some Figures That Serve to Correct
False Impressions.
Fine Showing Of Bank Deposits Prosperity
Of All Olasses-Business Conducted
On a Cash Basis-Plea for
Statehood.

OF All UlaSSoS- business UOnQuCLeu
On a Cash Basis-Plea for
Statehood.
Special Correspondence Globs-Dsm-
ocrat.
Las Vegas, N. M, January /, 1900
The territory Of New Mexico has been
| the most maligned, the least a%ppreciat-
I ed and the poorest understood portion
OF Uncle Sam's domain. II any one
may be permitted to draw conclusions
as to the nou OF knowledge as to
New Mexico, her people and her inter
ests, possessed by the ordinary Yam
kee, from some of the interrogatories
addressed to our citizens by the east
ern tourist passing through on a Santa
Fee railroad excursion, I'M route to
southern Californ mia, the New Mexican
cannot be blamed if he at nce decide
that all the wise men and women do
not come from the east. By way Of IL
~lustration, the writer was once asked
by a be-spectacled, gray-haired nlsstrol
from Massachusetts If United Sta-as
postage stamps could be purchased at
Santa Fe, and rolled her eyes in wild
establishment when informed that they
could be had at the postotfice at ex-
actly the same price as h was accus-
toned to pay for them in Boston.
OF course the entire population of the
New England states cannot be judged
by the comparison in the illustration,
but it is only too true that the east
erner draws his conclusions and makes
up his mind from isolated facts and
circumstances which do not represent
in a proper light the people of this great
and growing territory.
That class of u eastern brethren
who have never journeyed west know
nothing about us except what they per-
chance have read in the columns Of
their home paper, contributed by some
special correspondent on his travels,
and written from what he saw from the
window of a tourist sleeper. Little coul1
such a writer know Of our people, our
affairs, our ideas, u politics or our
business habits and conditions.
1t is with the hope that some of this
prevailing Ignorance as to New Mex
leo may be dispelled and dissipated that
the facts and figures hereinafter mem
toned have been compiled.
If there is timing above another
that the ordinary dweller in the lands
east of the Mississippi can thoroughly
understand, it is figures. Your true-blue
Yankee has a manila for figures and
STATISTICS. One of the first things a
myopic Bostonese infant has impressed
upon him is the fact that figures don't
have people in New Mexico who are
given to the same belief. We have peo-
pie in this territory who occasionally
have an idea, and it may be noted that
these ideas are just as f~ar-reaching in
their Influences i'm our communities as
are the same ideas I'M the communities
that are burdened with Edward Atkin-
sons and Billy Masons.
In every community the individual
who has a bank account, be he capital
ist, merchant, professional man or
wage Garner, is reckoned by his neigh
bors of more account than the maj
who never has a dollar laid by for a
rainy day. No n OF these may be a
politician, an orator or a statesman,
and yet his influence i'm the molddng Of
public sentiment, his moral, unspoken
efforts in support OF his belief in con-
troversy with his neighbors, or at the
weight and reach farther than the
power which emanates from the uned-
ucated party boss or vituperative DEM
agogue rwho would carry his point by
appeals to party tfealty or class preju-
dice.
1t has BEEN said that some mem in the
United States voted as they fought. 1t
can also be- said that in 1898 the people
Of New Mexico voted as they thought
An Intelligent vote is the highest sign
Of true American citizenship. New
Mexico in 1898 voted for the single
standard. voted for the present tariff,
and voted for everything else which
goes to make a modern, up-to-date Re-
publican. This fact of itself is proof of
our superior intelligence. This terri
tory has a Republican, delegate in con-
gress who Is AS sound upon THE gold
standard and the tariff as Mark Han
ma. himself, and while mot so polished
in appearance nor so full Of erudition
as Mr.. Henry Cabinet Lodge, the con-
gresa of the United States does mot con.
tain a more loyal partisan Republican
mol "a better citizen.
why is it that New Mexico voted as
she did? Why is 1t that our people diff
fer SO widely from our brethren to the
north in the state of Colorado?
The facts and figures as found in the
cash deposits in our banking institu-
tions explain the situation clearly.
With the exception of one bank, from
which no returns were received, the
figures following are an accurate state
meult of the cash deposits in every bank
in New Mexico att the close OF business
November Is, 1899:
Total cash on deposit. ....... $5.0 30, 1926. IS
Government, Ter, county &
municipal and school funds 561.341.&
Industrial corporations. .... 459, 554. 10
Mercha nfts. business men &
and business partnerships. 1,072, 1914
P~rofessional men. 1873, 35s.sS
Ranchnen and Farmers. 692, 012.40
Miners 2O,124.2a
Capitalists and individual
money lenders. ........... 327, 1921
Laborers and wage earners. 1871, 411.1s
Women 1879, 324.15