The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-09-28
WHY VOTE FOR STATEHOOD.
Statement issude by Joint Committee
of Two Great Parties.
To the Voters of the Territory of


of Two Great Parties.
To the Voters of the Territory of
New Mexico:
At the ensuing November election
you will be called upon to accept or
reject joint statehood with the terri
by the act of congress authorizing the
people of Arizona and New Mexico
to adopt a constitution and come in
to the Union as one state, provided
the people of the two territories, ,vot-
ing separately, shall so elect. No
more momentous question can ever
be submitted to the people of New
Mexico for their consideration and
determination
We propose to submit to you a few
plain facts and reasons why you
should vote in favor of joint state
hood
First: The territory of New Mexico
has asked for statehood from con-
gress from the time sne first became
a territory up to the present time
without success. Bills for her admis-
sion has passed one or the other
houses of congress, to be rejected by
the other. 1t is a fact known to all
well informed persons, that when
bill for the separate admission of
New Mexico mas passed one house,
it was well known by many of the
members who voted for it that it
would not pass the other. 1t is unden-
liable the people of the great states
of the Union, without regard to party
are unwilling to admit any more new
states, whatever the area may be,
having a small population. 1t is also
we'll known that the conditions are
such in New Mexico and Arizona that
the supremest optimist can never
hope for any but a comparatively
small population, sparsely settled
over it's plains, in its canons and
along it's streams. President Roosef
velt has frankly told us that if we
reject this offer we must expect years
| to pass before we have another. AS
our friend he has asked us to accept
| it. Not only is tnis true, but there
wasn't a single democratic vote cast
in either house of congress against
this bill when it was passed, and
practically both great political par
ties in the United States stand for
this measure. Shall we reject it? Ev-
cry consideration for our present and
future welfare impels us to say NO.
If the people of Arizona see fit to
reject it, however much we may re-
gret it, is no reason why New Mexico
should do SO. A decided vote for it
by New Mexico will undoubtedly mas
ten the day when we get statehood,
either joint or single.
What benefits will be derived from
statehood under this act? We re
ceive from the United States lands as
follows:
1878, 1873 acres-Four sections in
each township in Arizona
and New Mexico computed
from the area of eacn ter
ritory. For public school
purposes.
$4,000 acres for university pur-
poses.
| 10000 acres for legislative exc
cutive and judicial build
| ings.
200, 900 acres for support of insane
| asylum.
| 200, 900 acres for penitentiaries.
| 200, 900 acres for deaf, dumb and
| blind asylum.
1000 acres for miners hospital
200, 900 acres for normal schools.
200, 900 acres for charitable, penal
| and reformatory.
3O0, 900 acres for Agricultural and
Mechanical college.
2O0, 900 acres for School of Mines.
20O, 900 acres for Military Institutions
l18,922,133 acres, total.
/ These lands are in addition to the
lands already granted to New Mexico
by the act of June 21, 1898. The land!
! granted by this last act amount II
! $4,000 acres, together with all th'
saline lands, 43.0s0 acres of tni'
grant, together with all the salin'
lands, were for educational purposes
: Thus it will be seen that the stat
of Arizona will receive with the sa
lime lands, more than $4,000. 900 acre
| of land, and 5 per cent of all sale
of public lands not donated to it
and, last but not least, $5.000,0 900 Il