Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-10
SECRETARY TALKS PLAINLY
OF ADMINISTRATIONS POLICY
Mr.. Garfield said in part

Ladies and gentlemen: 1t is in
deed with a great deal of pleasure
that | have been able to come here
and have the opportunity of meeting
the people of New Mexico and discus
sing with them those matters that are
of interest to them affecting as
they do their lives and their proper
ty AS your mayor has said, the peo-
pie of New Mexico are of no differ
ent type of any other state or terri
tory and ! am glad TO say as | have.
said not only here but in the east
where men have talked to me about
the west, that so many people do not
understand the west at all / do not
pretend to understand it thoroughly.
came through your territory nearly
twenty years ago and I have kept in
touch with many of the men who are
doing things here. | desire to say that
this administration never has and 1t
does not now and ii does not intend
to have any presumption of guilt
against any citizen of New Mexico.
Should questions arise which will in
vOlve an Interpretation of the law
and an investigation of actions. the
national administration will interpret
those laws in the light of the facts
as represented to it. There is no
community in which wrong has not
occurred That is true Yet the men
who have done wrong are always in
the minority in any American COM
monwealth. l did not intend to say
much on this subject, but the mayor
has suggested IL, so l want to tell
Won exactly how this administration
felt and what II intend to do In
regard to this particular matter. 1t
Is true that charges have been made
but In every instance any man who
is charged with any act will be given
fair hearing and no final action will
be taken against any citizen of New
Mexico, until the fairest kind of treat
ment has been given to which he Is
entitled to expect from this national
administration. OF course, II In any
instance things have gone wrong
those wrongs will be righted by you
people and not by anybody outside
This Is neOngh to say about any dis
agreeable subject Mr.. Mayor. Gap
ulause).
II Is true that the department of
the Interior has a great deal to do
with the territory of New Mexico and
II seems that you are all anxious to
creep out from under the control of
the department of the Interior Now
you do not have to creep. but can
stand up and stand alone, Is some
thing that the future can determine.
Judging from the character OF the
people and the industries do not be-
lieve II will be long before you can
walk alone (Applause)
Studying the Problems of the West.
have been going about through
the great west for the last two
months for the purpose Of getting in
close touch with those questions of
interest TO the people of the west.
The west Is not a definite location.
You people pride yourselves as we
people In Ohio do that we are a large
proportion of the worlds surface. It
has only been fifty years since the
state OF Ohio was west and at that
time you people out here In New
Mexico had to be hunted for with a
telescope It was the spirit OF the
west that FIRST opened the land be-
yond the Alleghanies. II was the
spirit OF the west that left Ohio and
finally took possession OF those Is
lands out in the ocean. those islands
IN the far south It ls that spirit
that we want to foster and engender
not only In our own lives. but TO hand
down 10 our children. 1T Is not the
spirit OF license. II Is not the spirit OF
land grabbing. but II Is the spirit Of
free American citizenship. the spirit
which we wish to extend to and pop
ulate all this territory. all these
lands, to fill them with the people
who are home loving. people who be-
lieve in building up the American
home. and make II the corner stone.
the keystone to what Is American
citizenship.
And when see such an audience
as Is here today. with so many Of the
ladies' Of the city present | am con-
fident that that Is the Kind Of Citizen
Ship that this town has. We men
the unIRerse. We know very well
that we are not the lords OF the uni
verse We know II Is the women OF