Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-03-14

treaty by which the land was acquired
from Mexico in 1S4S
So solemn was that promise, and so
binding We're it's terms, that California
two years after the date of the trea-
ty, in 1850, without that state ever
having passed through the interme-
| diate form of a territorial govern
ment, was admitted into the union.
New Mexico at the same time, and she
was then much better fitted to be ad-
mitted than California, organized a
state form of government, elected a
senators, and sent them on to Wash
ington to knock at the doors Of con-
gress for admission to the union.
That was ten years before the civil
war. but she was excluded and her
senators sent home because, as it is
said, she had an anti-slavery prohibi-
ton in her constitution.
The territory made another desper-
ate effort to come into the union in
1874, when the present Senator Elkins
was her delegate; she had made two
or three minor efforts in the mean
time, but failed. Delegate Elklns Sc
cured the passage of the bill for the
territorys admission in both houses of
congress, and many Of the leaders of
the nation of the present day then
voted for her admission and that was
27 years ago. Every congress since
then has had to listen to the knocking
Of New Mexico for admission to the
union. I might add that her bill failed
ference committee. Every congress
since that date, in one house or the
other, has either passed or reported
favorably bills for the admission Of the
territory, and in this present congress
Is only renewal of a fight that has
lasted for more than half century.
There is not case of national neglect
on record equal to that of New Mexi-
co.
The nation took the territory in 1886
and has neglected it ever since. Per-
mitted the Indians to depredate over
it; gave it no aid for public buildings
or for schools, although it's people
spoke a foreign language when first
acquired, so that the splendid position
which it occupies today, equal to that
of any state of this union, per capita,
and superior to many, is the result of
it's own unaided effort and taxation.
The United States is not treating the
Filipinos or the Porto Ricans in that
manner now, because it is not only
sending them shiploads Of school
teachers, but it is permitting the rev.
enues of those jurisdictions to be used
entirely for the education Of their own
people; while as to New Mexico and
Arizona, 1t has taken every dollar
raised by the revenue laws Of the ma
ton there, as we'll as by the sale of
mineral, timber and agricultural
lands, and turned it into the national
treasury. The territory Of New Mexi
co would today have an immense bank
account had it been treated as the
Philippines are now being treated, for
the last half century. Instead of that
it has been kept and is being kept un-
der a territorial form of government,
governed by carpet-baggers and every
played out politician which senators
and representatives want to get rid Of
in the states.
Let me ask the question, Are citizens
of the United States to be taxed with
out representation forever? Is no re-
spect to be paid to the treaty obliga-
tions of the United States as to our
people? Do party platforms mean
nothing? We possess more popula-
tion, wealth and other qualifications,
three times over, than a large major
ity of the states had when they were
admitted to the union, and more than
many of them have even now. If we
are not qualified for admission now,
when will we be? If, as was set forth /
in a resolution in congress many years
ago, all territories are entitled to ad-
mission when they possess popula-
ton equal to that which would entitle
them to one representative in con-
gress, then, even according to the CEN
sus which is admittedly worthless as
to New Mexico, we are entitled to be
let in The census gives us 195.310 peo-
Die as our population, yet our governor
shows in his report. and 1t is a fact,
hat our registration for the last elec-
ion showed 10000 voters. which would
rive US population Of 100000.
The territory has had constructed
within its borders about 700 miles of
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