Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-07-07
JOINT STATEHOOD
WELL SET OUT.
Strong ViewsofPr
minent Native
Citizen.
ACCEPTING THE SITUATION
VIM. E. Martin of Socorro
Gives Reasons For Sup
porting Project.
To the New Mexican

To the New Mexican.
Individually, | am against Joint
statehood; first, last and all the time.
However, since the President and the
present Congress have determined by
Republican majority that the people
of New Mexico s1ould hope for moth
ing better than joint statehood, and
have determined upon jointure as one
of its policies, ! am too good a Re.
publican to allow my individual atti'
tude to oppose tle will Of the ma.
jority Of the party.
A great majority Of the people OF
New Mexico, as is well known
have been many years in favor OF
single statehood We have the popu.
lation, we have the resources, and
these backed and supported by the
rights that were many years ago guar.
anteed 10 us by the different treaties
entitle us to single statehood How.
ever, notwithstanding the pledges
that claim have been broken, with
reference 10 extension of citizenship
which was guaranteed the people OF
New Mexico Notwithstanding the
loyalty which has been displayed by
the native sons OF our soil; when in
less than ten years after this country
became a part Of the United States
joined the volunteers, shouldered
their muskets and shed their life's
blood On New Mexican soil to man
ifest their loyalty to the Stars and
Stripes-after all this, | say the ma
dive sons of New Mexico are still
ready to abide by the edicts and man
dates of President Roosevelt and the
great Republican party TO the extent
of standing by The policy which in
their wisdom has been ordained.
| am an Anglo-Sayon native of New
I Mesico J am friend to the native
! peope Uf New shsXio9y : was raised
among them Their language was the
! first began to utter They have stood
by me individually and politically
/ they have fostered upon me every
trust within their gift; and | am fol-
the people Of New Mexico. first, last
and all the time.
Were Not Aided AS Other Territories
| While do not believe that we have
been justly dealt with by the United
States government, since the time
that New Mexico was taken as a par
of the United States because it Is {
well known fact that the government
of the United States has not helped
the people of New Mexico in the wa!
of education as it has in the last ter
years the people of Porto Rico, Cuba
and the Philippines. While the pro
vision in the present bill of five mil
lion dollars for schoo. purposes is con
sidered largely by our people practl
cally as a bribe to secure our vote!
in favor of the jointure propo
sition can see but one alternative
that is, to accept it. And | call upol
every native son Of New Mexico t.
walk to the polls in solid phalanx an,
cast his vote in favor of it. The edu
cational feature for the natives O
New Mexico is the one of all others tha
should be taken heartily into consid
Grafton. Nature has endowed the ma
tives of New Mexico with as man.
talents as 1t has those of their breth
ren--the Americans, so-called Al
that is needed for the native to max
his mark is to have fair show, al
even break, and square DEAL" LIE
the native Of New Mexico have an evel
show with their brethren, the Anglo
Saxon, and | am not afraid but tha
he will be able to hold his own, nc
only in the business circles, but 4
the management of state affairs. LIE
every native believe that the time ha
come when he must either Join tn
educational van, study. and fit himse
to battle with the different Weiss
tudes of life as will every day NEE
him, or run the risk of remaining III
educated, and either be compelled t
leave the land of his birth or simpl
remain satisfied in being the commo
hireling, or woodchopper of his bette
educated brethren. For this reaso
more than any other am willing
abandon any personal or individui
idea and submit gracefully to the wi
!, OF the majority. This in itself bring
me to the belief that the present mea
ure is not exactly just one. If Ne
Mexico as a state is entitled to five mi
: lion dollars for educational purpose
, why, in all candor, let me ask tn
distinguished gentlemen who ha
charge of this bill in Congress, is nj
New Mexico as territory entitled
such? If the people Of Cuba, Port
Rico, and the Philippines are entitle
to the benefit of government aid fl
their education, and have receive
i it, when they have only been
I part Of the United States less ths
q ten years, why are not the people
New Mexico entitled to equal reco
nition, when they have been pa
Of the United States for more tht
n fifty years, and when they show 10
v atty enough to brave the DANCE
y which menaced them in maintainil
the Union OF their foster country, n