Albuquerque evening citizen., 1906-08-23

ION OF Snetp, a InllllOu anu Dalt or cat
tie, million Angora goats. half a
million horses and quantities of other
live stock, which is more than twice
as much as Arizona owns. New Mex
leo has a coal area as big as the en-
tire state of New York, while Ari-
zona has not one-quarter of that
amount. New Mexico has immense
iron beds. while Arizona has but few.
Both territories have immense timber
tracts. and immense saw mills. New
Mexico produces every mineral that
Arizona does, but Arizona at present
vastly outranKs her In copper and
gold. New Mexico has more than
twice the quantity of agricultural land
that Arizona mas, and has many times
as much land as Arizona has that can
be cultivated without irrigation. City
for city. town Ior town, and village
for village, without counting any of
the Mexican" towns within its bor-
ders, New Mexico outranks Arizona,
and has many to spare, and those
New Mexico towns, cities and villages
are in every way as civilized and as
modern, and as up-to-date and pos
sess every evidence of modern pro-
gress equal to- and in many instances
superior to the places in Arizona.
Against Arizona's Tucson, Phoenix,
Douglas, Bisbee, Prescott, Globe. St.
Johns, Jerome, Florence, Morenci,
Duncan, Flagstaff, Winslow, King
man, Yuma, Solomonville, Benson.
Tombstone. Ash Fork, Tempe, Wick
enburg, Springerville, Show Low,
Roosevelt, Seligman. Paradise, No
gales. Fairbanks, Jerome Junction,
Mineral Par. and other places, New
Mexico puts Albuquerque, New Las
Vegas, Roswell, Carlsbad, Alamo
gordo. Silver City, Deming, Ration,
Gallup, Lincoln. Santa Rosa, Springer,
Aztec. Pennington, Tucumcari, Ar
tesla, Elizabethtown, Captain. Fruit
land, Dawson, Pinos Altos, Dordsburg,
and other places, and has left over
Santa Fe, with 10000 people, old Las
Vegas, with 5000 people, Mora, with
5000, Taos. with 5000, TERRA ANA
rilla, Ell Rito, Cerrillos, Waturous,
Wagon Mound, Socorro, Los Lunas,
Belen, Las Cruces, San Rafael San
Mateo, Bernalllo, willard, Epris, Es-
tancia, Fort Stanton, Hanover, Santa
Rita, Rodey, Columbus, Stems Pass,
Ramah, San Antonio, San Marcial,
Malaga, Mac MILAN, Tres Piedras, San
Pedro, Golden, Torrance. Kennedy,
Lamy, Texico, Clayton, Folsom, Val
ley, Cimarron, Costilla, Chama, Park
view and dozens Of other hamlets all
over the territory. So that, 1t can
be seen that if there was anything
in the scare of Mexican Domination
which the enemies of joint statehood
in Arizona are raising, as to New
Mexico, it, in fact, does not exist. The
| truth is as you can see, there are two
of three times as many Americans
| from the states in New Mexico as
there is IN Arizona; and there is from
$4,000 thousand up more Americans
in New Mexico today. than there is
| population or every kind put to
( gether in Arizona. Now put your
American population with New Mex
| ico's American population and con
slider what a small minority the Mex
| leans of New Mexico and Arizona
when put together. will be in reality
Who has a right to be scared? II
| does seem that the so-called "Ameri
cans" are the people who ought to be
scared, but they have too much good
sense to be scared by American dom
ination; they are better citizens thar
those who were afraid of them, II
seems. They have not dominated
New Mexico In any evil way; "Amer
leans" get along with them in New
Mexico all right, and why cannot the
Americans" of both territories get
along with the "Mexicans" of boti
territories, when 1t is made into on,
large state? The truth is, friends IL
Arizona, that the enemies of jointure
like that fish in the sea that throws
out an ink from its body to cloud thu
water so that it can hide in the dark
ness, are trying to scare you with al
this lander about New Mexico, wheI
they themselves know that II has N
foundation, just to keep you from
seeing how the special interests hav,
you throttled.
| You ask why the great corpora
tions. such as railroads, mine owners
smelter trusts, big cattle men ant
other prOprietors of great industries
oppose jointure? will tell YOU
First, they are short sighted and sev
orally, things suit them now; the.
nave tue DtSt Ol II. inbY are dIIdll
that a self-governed people in the new
state will make them bear a moderat,
and just proportion Of the public bur
dens. They know that congress il
too busy to pay any attention to
territory; that officials in a territory
who are appointed from Washington
have no fear of the voters in the ter
ritory. Hence, they know that al
they have TO do with the territory Il
TO keep congress from making tnen
states, and they will control the OF
fcials and the legislators in each O
the territories by influence or other
wise. Have you stopped to think tha
there is more than a thousand milei
OF finished railroads in Arizona tina
Is exempt from taxation for many
years yet, and nearly seven hundred
miles in New Mexico, also exempt, 4
they remain territories? Have yol
stopped to think that the trunk line
Of railways in New Mexico and Ari
zona, heretofore, for years, paid NJ
taxes at AL, and since they began L
pay have paid only onethird tn,
amount that the same railroads pa
when they go into California on tn,
west, and Colorado, Kansas or TeXai
on the east? Have YOU stopped 10 thinl
that in New Mexico, according TO tn,
report of tLe secretary of the interior
a. a very low valuation, there Is near
ly a hundred mlLICn dollars worth o