Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-09-01

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lot Of falsohoods about New Mexico
and lis people. hoping thus 20 hll the
minds Of the voters of Arizona with
prejudice. 81 ihui they VIII not listen
10 reason ON the subject of iolniurc.
You are hciaF told that the people
OF New MoKiCo are HMCNiC1nn' and
Orcaaefs. lcvcn that offensive term
bting usedl. and lUifraic, and that
they ali speak Spanish and thHt they
arc corrurt. and that The territory and
iiH cuunuua are bankrupt, that the
territory nas nothing modern in &C.
that &c has no schools, churches or
civilization. hut thai Do la q beniEhled,
backward, foreign country Hhiuh %
would be- an outrage 90 tack onto
civilized Arizona. Oh courgp. only the
uniformed listen 90 such fnlsohood
and SANDER. Let noe ton you some
thing about New Mexico. and as
have made q lifc study Of q and have
lived there a quarter 81 century.
travelled over 81. and had 20 set these
facts 20 show iu congress. n viii be
admitted iiat unFht tu know the
truth. New Mexico has about twice
tho population OF Arizona. u has
about three hundred md hiiy thous
and people. OF this number slightly
over two hundred thousand are pco-
pie from the states and their de-
sccndanie. that iH. Americans" So
called. Somclhlne near one hundred
and nifty Thousand are American citi-
zens Of Spanish descent These citi-
zous, save n few IN tho extreme south
crn end % the territory, are not the
somiClyiliged poems or halfbroed In
dams who largely people northwest
orn Mexico. south OF Arizona, aud
thousands of whom have drified up
into Arizona, but the largest per cent
Of them are descendants OF the orig.
inal conquigtadorcs. Most of them.
certainly every one Of them less than
b8 years Of age. is a born American
citizen, because New Mexico has been
under our dag since 1916, and hence
these citizens OF Spanish descent
have never known any government
but that OF a territorial form OF gov.
eminent under the United States fag.
Nose than bali Of them speak Eng.
| llsh. nH we'll a. Spanish ana there ls
hardly anybody in the territory bot
wnat can speak some English. There
are twenty-five counties in the
Territory and only 40 nine counties 81
The majority OF ,te people OF Spanish
/ descent DO those nine counties
Spanish ia the prevailing lanFuaga
In Che towns and villages. but of
course, thousands Of people also speak
English there. In the other sixteen
counties spanish g. seldom heard at
AL and an Interpreter in the courts
"a never necessary. save once In q
while, when spanish witness hap
pens TO he called Tho county rec
ords and the district court record.
and process dlngs and tho probat,
court proceedings are on kept In Eng
lish IN every county an over the ter
rliory, New Mexico now has NOR,
than two and ono-half millions Of dol
lars invested IN educational instltu
tlous and school buildings. II has
fine lot 90 public buildings, q possess
es a flno capitol, a ponitontlary. an In
sane asylum. n school OF mines. hg
Horticultural college. .wo immense nor
mai schools, a graat university.
miners hospital, n reform school.
dear ana dumb asylum, Eve or sIi
Ereat hospitals, q military institute
ns hig as the University, and IN som'
of its larger cities it has from one Z,
Hly great common and high school
that are equal 90 those Ia the city %
Boston. it has churches 0f OH Ga
nominations Ia che cities and q churcl
Ia every hamlet from ono end OF thl
territory 90 the other. IN most o
the American towns and IN some o
the native towns instead OF th
church being the most impOrtan
. building. n % now coming 10 pass tna
the school house % the most con
: 8picuous, The territory collects AM
spends Tor education ever year 10 on
way and another moro than a miillO
collars. a. has aeventy-hYe thuu'
and school children 90 Arizona
, thirty thousand. a larger proportion
attend school IN New Mexico than q
In Arizona. Il simply amusos a.
I people Of New Mexico 60 hear IN
i people from Arizona boast ~ thel
I superior civilization and their supei
Tor institutions over New Mexic,
, We an admit and admire Arizona
4 civilization and progress but We a
I not consider Il superior 20 our owl
= have Of necessity looked no q goo
. many things about Arizona 80 as {
I present the facts 10 cunRress In ih
great fHht for statehood that / hav
q made. and ! think ] know more chou
4 Arizona than thousands OF iis Ow
h citizens DO who have never locke
Z lover the matter. Let me tell YOU
few Of the facts. Arizona has tOda
/. NOT TO exceed hundred and sevont.
hYc thousand people IN population
y | DO not be- agluuiRhcd M Toll won fhf
. more than "a quarter Of its either
= are of Spanish decent n You dOul
!. This take your great registers Z,
/. every county ia Arizona. They col
a tain the names OF voters only, and
4 you count the Spanish names you wi
y ind that they run from ave per cei
. IN 'ome counties 10 as high as alxl
!, per cent Spanish IN others, the latte
n ~ course being in those countis
4 bordering on New Mexico a ciiizg
l. Of Arizona and myself did that la
4 winter so as 60 get the date for
4 senator TO use IN speech. You han
T. several newspapers published
4 Spanish IN Arizona. Right IN the eli
I. OF Phoenix as late as last Januar
4 me Board Of Health found &c niece
n sary 10 publish a health ordinance
4 English AID spanish, and one Of a
a big placardg was exhibited last vi
I. tor on tho n0M uf ,hc United Stat
4 senate during the debate This
Z nothing against Arizona; these cl
zrns ere just az good as anybo,
h. Disc. and / am only telling you just
n show you that citizens OF spanish q
"A scent - injury TO no country, "a