Albuquerque evening citizen., 1906-08-23


been naturalized but few years
taking about ;he American citizen OF
Spanish blood in New Mexico. Let
me tell you ehother fact about Ari
zonas population. The big corpora
tions that run the mines, smelters,
and other industries have brought
in large numbers of working
peop'e, and when yea ,cOk at the
census, and pay rolls, you will find
mat the names are largely composed
of Hungarians, Poles, Russians, Ital-
ians, Bohemians, Germans. Irish,
French and all other sorts of foreign
names and the largest per cent of
which are either foreigners or natural
lied citizens. There are thirty thous-
and Indians counted in Arizona's pop
ulation of hundred and seventy-fivs
thousand, so that 1t can be safely
stated that there Is not today in Ari-
zona TO exceed sixty thousand born
citizens from the states. That as
tonishes you, doesn't 1t? II | were
gambler | would wager you that you
will find ii almost true II you look
the question up. Do you suppose,
then, that congress would let such
small community as that, however
llgh its class, into the Union as a
state, considering recent public SEN
timent, within the life time of any
child now living in Arizona? II is
nonsense to even think that congress
will do so. 1t will not. | have talked
to more representative men on that
subject than any ether person, and
know wat | am taking about. Let
me tell the good people of Arizona
anoth.r fact: The saL"mcnr of the
i.'ol Ia In t,> states .s fas, changing.
They realize that the public lands be-
long 10 the nation; that the cash in
the treasury belongs to the nation;
that the people in the states, who own
this land and who own this money,
| ought to keep it for themselves, and
| am therefore sure that never again
| in the history of this nation will
new state, coming into the Union, De
given any public land or any cash
out of the treasury. The people,
through congress will say: "If you
are fit to govern yourselves you ought
to be able 10 pay your own bills. We
will keep the public land for public
use. and will keep the public cash
for public benefit" If a new bill is
presented at the next congress or any
subsequent congress for the admis-
sion of either of these territories, sep
arately or even jointly, no cash and
no land would be given to them. | am
morally certain of this. 1t is now or
never with us, to accept the bill that
we were lucky enough to get passed
this last congress, only to prevent de-
| feating Oklahoma. II it were not for
the battle | made three congresses
ago, when | secured these donations,
We could not have obtained donations
this last congress.
Consider all these things before
it is too late. If you vote against
jointure on November the 9th this
great patrimony of your children will
be lost forever You will have for
ever cast away the $250,000 year in
terest on the five million dollars that
| would have come to your children.
Friends, do not think that | have
told you these facts about Arizona to
disparge your splendid territory or
your good people in the least, on the
contraryj | have praised your terri
tory and your people in and out of
congress, and believed what | said.
do 1t simply to prevent you from
deceiving yourselves. II is often quite
as necessary for a people to look in
the glass at themselves, collectively,
as it is for an individual to do so.
A thousand times have congressman
and senators told me that they did
not care a rap for New Mexico or
| Arizona, and that they did not pro-
pose to have the senatorial votes OF
the millions OF people from their own
states offset and nulified by the sen
atorial votes of any more rotten Dor
'oughs of small populations in the
west. Why, We nave more people
three times over, in a single ward
OF my city, said some of them TO me
than you have In your entire terri
tory, Mr.. Rodey." And II was true
think | know every argument that
can be made to that sort OF state
ment, and | have made il a thousand
times in our defense, but what is the
use? The representatives of the peo
pie in the states nave the power, We
in the territories nave none. If We
had no other reason for wanting tO
come into the Union now than at this
present time, we can get this splen
easily worth a million and a half
dollars year to us, and that at nc
future time We can get, it would be
sufficient to warrant every father of a
family to vote and work for jointure
You have been told, many times
through the newspapers that are fight,
ing jointure that New Mexico wants
TO saddle It's debt upon you. How
silly that Statement is. New Mexico
has twice the population that Arizona
has, counting every dollar of every
kind and character that 1t owes, that
; is territorial, county and municipal
debts, 1t still owes nearly half a mil.
lion less than Arizona owes. Take
the reports Of the governors of each
of the territories that was made last
fall TO the secretary of the interior
and you Will find this 10 be true. Ari,
zona owes, all told, a little more than
three millions of dollars, and New
Mexico owes, less cash in nand, a lit,
tie less than two millions. The com,
bined debts OF the two territories
when organized as a state, will not
exceed four millions of dollars. that
Is, as a state, and while this will not
include any OF New Mexicos county
. debts, because the territory has not
assumed them. and the state will not
have them 10 pay, IL will include Ari
zonas county debts. because Arizona
has assumed them. New Mexico. as
a territory. does not owe over three.
quarters of a million OF dollars. and
she has pubic institutions enough 70