Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-03-15

condition or affairs calls for any in
vestigation such as the said resolution
suggests should be made.
We are American citizens. who,
while in government under tutelage
possess all the pride of character
rectltude of conduct. resentment to
wrongs on us and determination to
be manly, that is possessed in any
state of the Union; our people have
been at all times loyal to the Union,
they have patiently endured the scan.
dals and abuse which frequently
been heaped On us by those in the
East who know nothing about us and
especially by committee of the
United States Senate who visited our
Territory to find reasons for not rec
ognizing our rights to statehood,
which committee avoided as much as
possible mingling with the better
class Of New Mexico population and
refused to stop at places and see men
whose character and standing would
have removed any doubts they may
possibly have had to our right to be
received into the Union. We do not
wish any committee to come here to
repeat what that committee did and
that on isolated and surreptitiously OBJ
tained facts, which any intelligent
man must have known did not fairly
or in the most remote degree repre-.
sent our condition. and thereon take
up days and weeks in villifying, ira.
ducing and misrepresenting us. Our
condition can as well be ascertained
without committee coming here;
the Territory is filled with federal of.
fce-hOlder's agents, secret service
spies and many good and some bad
residents who can give them all the
information needed.
We know that it is not from any
belief that we are not fitted for state
hood that we have been kept out
of statehood, but is from purely
selfish motive on the part of eastern
states, who fear that in our independ-
ence we will not be subservient to
their will, but that two senators from
our midst will represent western in
terests and not eastern greed. We
believe that many members of Con-
gress who are fair-minded men have
been deceived by the garbled and UNI
fairly obtained facts made up and rep
resented to them through the Senate
committee, which made flying trip
here and only hunted for facts to en-
able them to slander us. There is not
a state or city in the Union where
they could not in the same manner
have picked up worse con-
glomeration of facts they claimed
to have found here. They
did not desire to find anything
in our favor nor did they make
an effort to do so, but haye kept up
their traducing us by receiving very
1ately statements which have been
cruelty injurious to us from persons
whose conduct here would not bear
the scrutiny of an impartial investiga-
tion. We stand on our rights and in.
dependence of character, the rectitude
of our dealings and acts, and chal.
lenge any of our traducers to meet us
openly and make and substantiate any
unfavorable charge against us which
could not be made good in any one OF
the states or in any city. 1t is be-
meath our dignity to be investigated.
New Mexico knows her people to be
loyal and as honest, moral, intelligent,
industrious and law-abiding as any
other people under the sun and needs
no investigation to prove or disprove
it.
While, we feel that senators in the
East who have given ears to these
slurs against New Mexico and her
people have greatly wronged us, we
believe that they are in the main fair
and honorable men. They could not
afford to be otherwise. They are the |
of that great develop |
ment coming from the race OF Fur
itans, Dutch and Anglo-Saxons, who !
have done most to build up and make !
great and honor our whole country.
We esteem them for their greatness, |
for their wisdom and enterprise, but
regret that they have allowed them |
selves to be misled by garbled and
gathered facts. We hope |
that they will in the future do us JUS |
tice by discarding their false impres.
,ions and that they will aid this gov
eminent to open it's arms and receive |
lis into the family of states which,
ike the Trinity make up a single ep |
.ity. We appeal to them as honorable
men, fair-minded men, wishing to do
light, to do us justice and no to tol
crate ISLANDERS and vituperation and