The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-09-23

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lion. The De Baca family near Las
Vegas have lived there back to the
time when the records were first kept.
The first record % the family having
the title to those broad lands was
under date Of 1891 md nobody knows
how long before that That was
within one hundred years OF the time
that Mexico was discovered NEAR
that this country had bccn discovered.
II was In 1871 that the conquest OF
Mexico was completed,
WoIr Not FmlnsnufN.
NOW those people held their lands
just as they do today and those pes
Pile were Interested In their wi type
of civilization and we took them ovsr
with the lands. They have a diner-
ent claim on Us than the cmigrants.
For example. O can say to a man
WIN comes to this country n an emit
grant. ut u your business to lcnrn
cur language and our ways" but We
tool this people who did not wan 20
be taken.-we took them by military
conquest. and always DIR, Harwood
felt that hat type 81 Spanlsh-Ameri-
can iifc should be entitled to h
greatest consideration. They hat had
claims upon us that were greater.
perhaps. than we can discharge. and
! am SORRY TO say ! do not think we
have ever discharged those claimS.
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Spanish people have In the southwest
that never have been satisfactorily
adjusted. I feel. ana Or. HARDWOOD felt
the same way.
In dealing with thn, type Of life
he was conciliatory always. He at
ways looked NJ the problem from
their viewpoint, and this type OF
American that simply elbows every
body cut and pushes h Spanish
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and grabs anything.-thnt type has
to be placed over agalnst this man
who was n pioneer % the kingdom
but aid not move In that way, and n
we're going to pick nut any single
Influence that helped TO bring o
a better understanding petween the
Spanish people and the American
people, ! could not pick out a better
example than Dr. HARDWOOD.
Dincrsru spirit Iicrc.
Il don't want TO draw any unjus-
Unable comparisons ut all, but do you
know that there IL a different spirit
between the people 81 New Mexico
and the people OF Arizona, bad AZ our
spirit sometimes ~. and the people ~
Texas A great deal different spirit.
Il always Is Interesting to me Ia hear
the people Of Texas talk aboat the
awful outrages perpetrated upon
American citizens In Mexico. because
there had been Ell people Killed. ac-
cording TO the state department rec
orOs. since 1909, ten years. 7 would
like for somebody to md out now
many Spanish people have beer killed
In Texas since that time. There IN
great deal Of ground IN C~arranza's
clah that you al and outraees IN
Texas as well ~ In Mexico.
"Of course. there Il "a great liner
ence In the type Of life and In me
land OF Texas. hut there Il a different
feeling here. Although Il IL not ideal,
Z there Is n different feeling, Know
by NY own personal experience. be
tween the two types Of national life
and ways OF looking at things. be-
tween the Americans and the Span
ian speaking people here In this state
and In Arizona. than there Is In Texas
And his extends into the FAR reaches
OF br. Harwood's influence. There "
a different attitude and a different
desire 10 heal with a problem n ?
willingness 20 work II out upon a
basis o. Cancellation that there Is not
IN ether parts Of h union.
And I think this man who "a
down with .his people and heard
what they had TO a n discussed
their way OF looking at thinks, aud
tried 10 understand and make other,
understand, In nc small measure u
Responsible FOR this different feeling
Ills Work Here.
'scomiug to the work DR.. HErwoue
did here. " wnH a work among the
Spanish speaking peoples. Tie az
follow the MANI nave forgotten mn
name.-from Colorado, who cam'
down here 10 work among h whit
,eople. travelling and preaching. bul
his feeling was this that he must Civ
himself 10 the training Of n SpAnisl
speaking people. DIR. Harwood came
as I said, In 1859. That was 1us
twenty-one years after the Mexicni
war was over. and there were mel
here who could remember all the DIT
terness Of u. older men amonF IN
Mexlcans. and yet coming into tht
situation he wrought a work as peace
maker surpassed by none.
"Dr. HarwOod. as understad nd
learned the Spanish language, no
merely In mo sense Of picking up
few chance phrases Tor the purpose o
buying and selling, but he learns'
spanish W he could speak u, after h
was forty years OF age. That ih
very astonishing thing. know
great many people who say tho span
ish language u an easy language.
have been reading u a great man.
years. I am going now over a bool
nf n million words IN length on IN
history u the Indians. u I under
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Spanish speaking brothers think
do. but / would no more trust mNsel
to speak 81 than anything IN IN
world. couldn't speak IL, haVin
had no experience, but the SPANS.
language In spite u all that we ~
about its being easy TO get, has shade
Of meaning aud turns Of eNpressio
that make u In the end about as az
ncult az any lanFuagc there Is TO mas
ter. I have heard men say who haN
studied languages that tlis languas
: much harder to get and IA max
effective. much harder to ret ma
many languages thought 10 De yer
dlmcuit.
- don't know. I heard ID
Hnrwood speak spanish enough {
know, hut / have heard non WI
were proficient In spanish, say ID
HARDWOOD WINS very effective In his uH
Of the language. Now be went anon
the people, and this q seems TO IA
was his great characteriHuei-he w
cnnclilatofy In dealing with thom. tn
Spanish %spsakinr peope htd been ~
enr receiving whafofbr measure q
religious instruction they had froi
the Roman Catholic forces. tn
I spanish missionaries had reached ot
, M laid some measure or inhuone
upon the country. and pr. Harwou
had sn the powers Of the good Roma
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