Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-18

Minnesota with 1570S7. Indiana nau
but t45.OOO in 1920, four years atter pc,
coming a state. Alabama was aulilltteu
in 1919 and in 1920 had populatioIl ~ VI
1877. g01 the whites numbering eo'do
and the slaves 42,500. Including ll,7o4
slaves. Missouri had 7O64'. h~euCuchS ~
was admitted with $4,000, ana Kansas,
by the census of lS6O, hau 1V''-oo ""N
was admitted in 1861. ,-.
The area of new states has not peer.
a question very much considered All
are Immensely preponderant over lllS
areas of the majority of the orlsiMl M
thirteen. None of the new states mas
as large an area except IeNas' Ial-
fornia and Montana as New Mexico or
Arizona. the first having 122,46O and the
other 10000 square miles
There cannot be doubt that New
Mexico or Arizona has ample Wealth
TO support an efficient state govern
ment without oppressive taxation ana
q sufficiently large population; bot''
together and separately nave peell III
territorial tutelage longer tlah any
otbo,. territory i'm our history. the period
being more than half century me
generation that existed at the time or
Session to this country has nearly dis
appeared, and except slight percent
a pc of foreign born people the present
nopulation know no other government
than that of the United States
The cession to the United States, as a
result Of the Mexican war; was OF
california and New Mexico, the latter
comprising territories of New Mexico
and Arizona and a part of the state Oh
Colorado.
The nominal objection to New Mexico
and Arizona as separate states IS the
character of the population, Inc la-
tive and Anglo-SaXon element largely
predominates in Arizona ana II EN-
braces men of as high a degree OIL m
telligence. virtue and patriotism as lne
nopulation of any territory previously
admitted to statehood. The so-called
Mexican people are not in larger per
centage than in California and Colo
RADIO at the time they were made states,
california was engineered into state
hood by an American element that had
recently arrived in the country to make
fortune and not to found homes
Good Citizens
Two-thirds Of the population of New
/ Mexico are not Anglo-SaXOn but nearly
all are native born Those of Spanish
blood have displayed their ATTACHMENT
to the government of the United States
in unmlStdkaDle ways / wv +NtN
| Mexican regiments, one under Kit Car
son and the other under col. Manuel
Chaves, did all the effective fighting
at Val Verde and would have over
W Nhelmed the enemy but for contra
vailing orders of Col. Candy The
battle of Canyon del Apache was won
by the splendid tactics of Col. Chaves
/ and the intrepidity of his regiment of
Mexicans. The wild Indians have been
kept at bay by the troops of native
Mexicans under Mexican officers.
Notwithstanding the Anglo-Saxon
| element in New Mexico has been in
small minority it has dominated
through it's influence in legislation
Very few facts of the New Mexico
! legislature have been disapproved by
congress. That element has been rep
resented in the office Of governor from
the beginning except for eight years.
| New Mexico has a larger element OF
pure Castilian blood than in any part
Of the territory acquired from Mexico
! There is a large number of men in
! New Mexico of Spanish extraction who