Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-17

many whose whole-hearted and en-
thusiastic support of our govern
ment and of its institutions merits
our highest approval and apprecia-
ton. Unfortunately, however, we
have also found a great many of
them, principally among the class
es employed in the mining and
manufacturing centers of the coun-
try, who have taken advantage, and
will, in all probability, again take
advantage, of these same condi-
tons, to scatter far and wide theo-
ries and doctrines Of revolutionary
tendencies; counseling and actually
creating armed opposition to law,
to order, and to constitutional au-
thority, with the avowed ultimate
purpose of subverting the very gov
eminent that has given them
cheerful asylum, and under which
they have prospered even beyond
their most cherished expectations.
Against such outbreaks of open
hostility to our government and to
the preservation of law and order
in our midst. we must guard, and
be fully prepared to meet and sup
press them speedily and effectively;
this duty we owe to the founders
of this government, we owe it to the
patriotic sons of our country who
have fought. bled, and died that the
republic might live; we owe it to
ourselves, and we owe it to our pos
terity; to wilfully and deliberately
fail in thus providing against such
possible contingencies in these I'M
settled times would be an unpar-
donable breach of good faith to-
wards those who, confidingly, have
entrusted the safeguarding of this
government and it's institutions to
us. Nor can we avoid the perform
ance of this evident and self-im-
posed duty with the assurance that,
on given emergency, the federal
government will readily come to
our assistance, because in the first
place, such puerile dependence
upon the paternal protection of the
federal government is unworthy Of
the dignity of a free and sovereign
state, and would be humiliating be-
You'd description; in the second |
place, under the above recited pro-
visions of section 4, article of |
our state constitution, it is plainly |
the duty of our state to provide for |
the preservation of peace and or
der, and for the enforcement of it's
laws, by the use of its own means |
and resources, both in men and
money, and no federal assistance
should be invoked except in the
h.
my, or in the case of domestic vio-
lence, when the states resources
have all been used, and found to
be insufficient to cope with the sit
uation.
1t was principally for the pur-
pose of enacting necessary legisla-
ton on this important and pressing
subject, that l finally decided to
convene you, gentlemen, in special
session. | therefore respectfully
request that you do enact the neces-
sary laws, providing for the speedy
raising of funds for the suppress
sion of instruction and for
the public defense, whenever
the same may be required
Needless to say. no such funds shall
ever be used except in cases of
National Guard.
The organization of the national
guard in the state is an indispensa-
BILE necessity, as well for use in the
of law and order in
our state, when the occasion may
arise, as to enable us to contribute
our quota of trained and disciplined
men to the federal army in case of
war with a foreign nation; to ac-
this end, the adjutant
generals office, under instructions
Of the executive of the state, is pro-
ceeding with all possible haste in
such organization. The ultimate al
Iotment to New Mexico, made by
the national guard bureau, con-
sists of one battalion of infantry,
one battalion of field artillery, one
headquarters company field artil-
cry, one trained headquarters of
police, two squadrons of
cavalry, one headquarters troop of
cavalry, one machine gun troop of
cavalry, and one supply troop of
,avalry. The expense of equipping
md maintaining this portion of the
rational guard will be betrayed by
he federal government; there are,