Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-15
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in the Judiciary department out of a
total OF more than twenty who has
a Spanish-American name, unless Mrs,
Anita Chapman, the state law libra
rian, is Included. for she is of Spanish
| American ancestry.
The disproportion though to a loss
er extent holds good in the Legislature.
OF the twenty four state senator's,
seven are of SPANISH ances-
try and six of these are republicans.
OF the forty-nine members of the
house there were twenty-five Span
ish- Americans of whom twenty-one
were republicans. A Spanish Amer
can was elected speaker and the divi-
sion of legislative employees was fifty
fifty, eXoep; that the higher paid
jobs went TO Anglo-Ameficans. 3D..
larrazolo's Record. "a.
1t is only in the office of the gov
ernor and the secretary of state, that
Span. sh americans preGominate
slightly, Governor Larrazolo's private
secretary is an Anglo-American, and
so is his legal adviser. But beyond
that. Mr., LarraZolo has appointed far
more Anglo SaXons than Spanish
Americans to office in the three and
half months that he has been in Of
flee of twenty-seyen appointive state
officials, ten are Spanish American,
and of seventy-two board appoint
ments thirty are Spanish American.
OF twenty-seven county road supern-
tendents only nine are Spanish Amer
lean: of six district road engineers not
one is u Spanish American; of nine
gasoline inspectors, six are Spanish
American, but one of these is only
n temporary appointment; of eight
mounted police, five are Spanish
Americans so of the appointments in
the above category only one-third are
Spanish American. OF a total OF 1870
appointments made directly by the
governor or upon his recommendation,
sixty are Spanish American. OF 496
officeholders, elective and appointve,
who have taken office since New
Year, 1872 ere of Spanish-American
ancestry.
The penitentiary was turned over to
q Spanish American but at the request
of the governor, the chief clerk and
the assistant superintendent, neither
of them Spanish Americans, were re-
tanned Most of the guards are Span
ish-Americans and always have been
for the pay Is so small and the duties
so mental that few Anglo SaXons ,ap-
ply for the job. This is also true of
the capitol, of which the superintend-
ent Is Spanish American, and most
of the sweeDers are Spanish Ameri-
can. The adjutant general is a Span
| ish-American and so is the superln-
/ tendent of insurance, but in eaCh case
! the assistant is an Anglo American.
! The chairman of the state tax COM
mission is an Anglo American, while
! the other two members are Spanish
American, but the salary of the latter
| is only nominal, and most of the spe-
| cial agents the chief clerk and other
! employees of the tax commission are
!, Anglo Americans.
How 1t Works Out.
Two members of the corporation
commission are Spanish American
but the chief clerk and practically all
of the employees are Anglo.American
The office of the state engineer and
the highway engineer has the most
employees and the best paid employees
of any department. Practically all OF
them, from top to bottom, are Anglo
American Similarly in the state lane
office with its large staff of employees
there is merely a sprinkling of Span.
ish Americans. In the department OF
education there aare two Spanish
American clerks And eight other of.
fieials The state game warden, the
. state bank examiner and his two as
, sistants, the state mine inspector, the
chairman of the soldiers settlement
commission, all are Anglo-Americans
and so are most of their employees
! This holds true in the state treasur-
ers', the state auditors, the travelling
auditors offices.
Educational Institutions.
The heads of the eleven educationa
institutions are all Anglo Americans
and it speaks much for the tolerance
of New Mexico with its predominant
Catholic population, that the head OF
the university is Presbyterian
clergyman; OF the state college for.
mer Lutheran clergyman and the
head of the normal university offer
fills Methodist pulpits. OF the 44t
men on the faculties and staffs OF, the
state educational institutions. accord
ing to the educational directory fol
1919, only twenty-six are Spanish
Americans, the normal university ant
the state museum leading with three
Spanish Americans each on theil
staff, the percentage of the museum
being the highest because of its small
pay roll. , ~
AS to teachers, less than third o
them in New Mexico are Spanish
American. Even in Spanish-Ameri
can counties, those paid the bigges
salaries are Anglo-Americans and 1T i
only in the backwoods district wher'
pay is small and conditions miserable
where Anglo Americans wouldn't g
for double the salary offered, that tn
spanish Americans are Hholding down
the Job and are performing the pic
neer work so necessary and so vau
able in a state like New Mexico. o.
the roster of the teachers of the Al
buquerque schools in the new educa
tional directory, not one Spanish
American name is found. and even IL
the county of Bernalillo, outside o
Albuquerque out of sixty-six teacher
only twenty-siX have Spanish Amer
lean names. In the city of Santa Fe
although the population is five-slXth
Spanish American. out of twenty
three teachers enumerated, there
only one Spanish american name.
One need but run over the list Q