Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-02-19

in FAVOR OF A
CHANGE OF NAME
Able Though Not Convincing Arguments Put Up
by Correspondents Of tho New Mexi-
can at Ration and Santa Rosa.
SOME OBJECTIONS TO THE
NAME NEW MEXICO

| Raton, New Mexico, february JIG, 1902
| Dear SIR: / may be wrong. To err is
| human, but it seems to me that the ma.
ture of the title, New Mexico, is un.
| fairly misleading in it's results to all
| the inhabitants of this great undevel-
| oped commonwealth.
| do not believe that any sentiment
| of the native population santers into II
at all as it would be benefited too by
the entry of eastern capital. The trou-
Bile now in the name is with the SUPER
ficially educated masses east nova
days, whose money we need in stock
subscriptions and from whom we solicit
immigration, etc. Why Mexico at all?
Old or New? There are plenty of peo-
pie east who know the world is round
20 ho, who spell God with Il capital
letter and who know that the compara-
tive governs the objective in English.
but who find it convenient, when ap-
preached by the honest New Mexico
promoter to be indifferently hazy re-
garding semi-foreign sounding geo.
graphical nomenclature any how.
Only last September, I had a talk at
Mr.. Gavin on this subject. both having
noted, for many years, with myself,
the incredible ignorance east regarding
New Mexico facts and rights. New
Mexico is not understood In the east
as it has a right to be; west of the
Missouri river better understanding
prevails, of course, but In the extreme
east where the money is seeking In
vestment, the words New Mexico are
damper on the virtuous promoter
golden chain and smiling puts the
question by. as dubious to say the |
least.
Capital is timid. There are great |
chances for money in New Mexico |
Everybody needs it, everybody wants |
it and everybody will be benefited by it |
in New Mexico. Here is a great coun-
try undeveloped. With a good name to
arrest eastern attention, 1T would COM
mence to get it's own New capital is
We are now forty years
behind Colorado, California, etc. Why
S it? There is a reason for all things.
Yours truly, George D. Lester.
NEW MEXICO OR MCKINLEY?
70 the Editor of the New Mexican.
Santa Rosa, N. M, Feb. Is, 19o9.-It
$ interesting 10 know what oastq2e pao-
lie think and what they behave about
Jew Mexico, to gauge the quality OF
heir exact knowledge and to scrutinize
their real opinions regarding
his territory, but it would be still more
Interesting if we could discover the
auses for their strange beliefs.
Let us approach the subject from a
ispassionate point of view. We may
nd perhaps one reason for this neglect
4 the peculiar complexty of the subject.
here are so many preconcieved opin-
ms which have to be removed, and this '
always delicate and thankless
lsk. Even now it's scope of Importance
nd significance have scarcely been re.
ognized. When a people is Isolated
hanges take place with extreme slow
ess. Nothing is easier than to 60 back |
ard. Now is the time to mark record .
)r progress for all the inhabitants to be {
enefted by. l have lived in Boston
nd New York the past thirty years and
| New Mexico six years, having busi-
ess interests out here with resident
lends much Of this time. Ihave found
we'll nigh impossible to convince east !
'ners that New Mexico is in the 1
nited States, and this, mind you, h
nong the supposedly educated classes. I
y experience is respectfully submitted
you for what 1t may be worth. 1t is q
ON the people we must learn. studying
em east carefully and then studying a
lem here. Very respectfully yours,
JOHN LAIRD. a