Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-12
STATEHOOD IN old TOWN.
SET or STRONG RESOLUTIONS.

Last night, pursuant to notice pub
lished in the city press. a mass meet
ing of the citizens of old Albuquerque
was held at the court house, and it was
largely attended.
Jesus Romero officiated as chairman,
and Tomas Werner acted as secretary.
Hon. Nestor Montoya, editor of the
Ia Bandera Americana. was called
upon to explain the object of the meet
ing, and he did so in some strong
words.
1t was moved by Judge Crollott, and
the motion was carried. that Nestor
Montoya, Jesus Romero. Hank Pink
ney, Seferino Crollott. Tomas Werner.
Herman Butcher, II. r. Whiting, Man
uel r. Springer. A. A. Trimble, Mo-
desto c. Ortiz. T. c. Montoya, II. w.
Schroben, Desldrio Montoya and
resolutions.
The following resolutions were intro
duced, cad and unanimously adopted:
Whereas, A subcommittee OF the
senate committee On territories, head
ed by Beveridge. of Indiana. visited our
territory a few weeks ago for the os-
tensible purpose of obtaining proper
information, of all kinds, about u ter
ritory upon which to base their report
to the present congress in the matter
of our admission as a state, and
Whereas, Said committee only visit
nd mn fartff0rx- Zx H. x,-;.- ss-f ~.
eridge," so to speak, remaining but a
few hours in each of our cities and
trying to obtain only damaging evil
dence against our people, especially
upon the subject of the Spanish Ian
guage, and refraining from visiting u
educational institutions, although re-
quested to do SO, for the purpose of
gathering information of the progress
made by u native people in the Eng
lish language, and
! Whereas, We have been a part of
this great republic for more than fifty
years by the treaty Of Guadalupe Hi
dalgo, and during that length of time,
not a single dollar nor a teacher of the
English language has been provided us
by this government, although we have
been willingly paying taxes to main.
tain the same, and have furnished our
quota of volunteers, to support the
union in time of war, and also to repel
foreign invasion, and
Whereas, We note that u pa~ternal
government Immediately after taking
possession of Porto Rico and the Phil
ippine islands and ven before the war
ended in the archipelago sent ship
loads of school teachers, paid by the
government, to teach the young bolo
men how to shoot in English, which OPP
portunities were never offered to us,
by this government, having done the
best we could by u own unaided eff
forts.
Therefore, Be 1t Resolved, That we
the citizens of Old Albuquerque, con-
denim the unfair methods of obtaining
information used by Senator Beveridge
and his subcommittee while in the ter
ritory and we denounce in unqualified
terms his report submitted to congress,
in which he charges our people as be-
ing unfit to assume the rights and SOW,
ereignty of free citizens.
Be 1t Further Resolved, That we ask
u friends in congress to refute the
ISLANDERS placed upon a loyal people. by
a prejudiced senator, one who has
shown himself to be narrow-minded
and fanatical.
Be 1t Further Resolved, That we
heartily thank the grand old man, Sen.
ator Quay, of Pennsylvania, and Hon.
s. b. Elkins, of West Virginia, who are
leading the gallant fight in our favor in
congress today, as well as all other
friends who are nobly fighting for the
rights of a quarter of million of people
In this territory. Respectfully sub
mitted,
F~.- NESTOR MONTOYA,
- Chairman