Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-14
Albuquerque, n. NJ,
July s, 1920.
DiDp journal

Albuquerque, n. NJ,
July s, 1920.
Editor Morning Journal.
Dear Sir:--Win you kindly give
space in your valuable paper for
me to express my opinion in re-
gard to an article which / read n
this mornings paper, saying that
the Kiwanis club has initiated q
movement TO change the namH OF
New Mexico to some more deSira-
BILE name which will not prove mis-
leading to the uniformed and be-
nighted elements of the populaCe
in the east, who have not yet
awakened TO the fact that the state
of New Mexico is in the United
States?
Perhaps these people are not
well read in history in regard TO
the state of New Mexico, and the
gentleman who brought about this
movement by his eloquent speech,
Mr.. Sydney M. We'll, this move
ment to have the Sunshine state
change it's name to some other
name, as suggested by one of the
members of the club, DR.. Hope,
that Acoma should be the name N
place of New Mexico, -iif these
gentlemen will take a moments
thought they will remember that
Acoma is an Indian word and
means rock or stone.
|, as one OF the $50, 900 Spanish
Americans residing within the
metes and bounds of the state OF
New Mexico, strongly object to the
changing of the name, and | VIII
say that | win do everything in
my humble power, in a legal and
lawful way, TO prevent any action
at the incoming Legislature 10
change the name of New Mexico
to any other name.
/ have too great love for New
Mexico, from which state | come
and of whose people l am one, and
TOO great a faithin her magnificent
grasp of large affairs 'and the ms
tory and achievements which New
Mexico has acquired from tme
immemorial and from the ume OF
my ancestors to the present time,
TO try 10 eliminate her name ana
substitute another in its place. To
this proposition ! will say a thou
sand times mo, Mol MOI
This vital question was raised IN
congress when the enabling act
was passed by the congress of the
United States; when We Were ad-
n,itted to the sisterhOod of the
states. without avail. This man.
We'll. in his slumbeis, dreamed
that he and his club could easily
change New MeXico's name when
he stated that II was the opinion
If many that that could be ac-
comnlished, and that it would ee|
moro advantageous TO the state.
No. Ny. Editor, it would be to|
,tbe dctriment of the people IN
general in the state of New Mexico,
rotber than to be advantageous.
Perhaps this gentleman Wen Is a
newcomer and is not famlilar win
the affairs of the state ana lts MS
tery and its achievements, ana Tor
the moment, when he was ADDRESS
Ing his club, believed that ehang-
ing New MeXic5's name and SUB
shutting another in its place would
nIease the eastern people. al
tpays believed and ! still believe
mat the eastern people are we'll
trained, civilized people, and we'll
reod IN history and the affairs of
every state, and the nations of the
world. hut when he says that the
eastern people do not know wheth-
or New Mexico is on the map OF
the United States, perhaps he f,r-
got to look at the map. New Mex
leo is so well known that her peo-
pie responded in 1861, in 1898, and
1917, when the world war was al
issue and fighting for humanity
And still there are those VINO say
thar the eastern people do not
know whether New Mexico is with
in the metes and bound of the Uni
ted States.
X l hope my friend MraWeil and
the members of the club realize ]
these facts, and that whenever they