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SANTA if IS fl-KW MiSXlOAJST, MtKTA, II, 13.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1907.
SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN.
THE NEW MEXICAN PRINTING COMPANY, PUBLI9HER8.
WAX. FROST, Editor. JOHN K. STAUFFER, Sec'y-Treas.
EDWIN F. COARD, City Editor.
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Santa Fe Postoffice
HATES OP SUBSCRIPTION.
'Jatly, per week, by carrier $ .20
!all per month, by carrier 75
Dally, per month, by mall C5
tally, per year, by mall 7.00
Dally, six months, by mall 3.76
Weekly, per year ., 2.00
Weekly, six months 1.00
Weekly, per quarter 78
OFFICIAL PAPER OF SANTA FE COUNTY.
The New Mexican Is the oldest n ewspaper In New Mexico. It is sent to
every postoffice In the Territory, an d has a large and growing circulation
among the Intelligent and progressive people of the Southwest.
Cl.iNIONtpJl-ABa
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
The President's message read to
Congress yesterday Is a state docu
ment without frills. President Roose
velt has grown beyond the rhetorical
stage of his areer and while he has
always managed to get to the heart of
conditions he does so today much more
directly than ho did in his earlier
years. Maturity of judgment comes
only through experience and this
furnishes an unanswerable argument
for giving so important an official as
the President of the United States a
longer 'tenure of office and why it
would be well for the nation if Presi
dent Rooevelt wore t" consent to
serve another four years, even at a
personal cacr fice.
The financial situation being upper
most in the minds of the people, the
President naturally speaks of it first
in his message. He lays clown the prop
osition: "In no nation are the funda
mental business conditions sounder
than In ours at this very moment; and
it is foolish, when such is the case, for
people to hoard money instead of keep
ing it In sound banks." This is langu
age to restore confidence. However,
the President does net abate one jot
or tittle- from his announced policy of
using the government machinery to
prosecute the successfully dishonest
and in this connection places the
blame indiree'ly for the financial dis
turbances upon the shoulders of this
class. The message also points out
the defects, and especially the insuffic
iency, of the present currency system
but urges no deflrit) system of reform
except to state that greater elasticity
is needed .that au emergency currency
system should le provided, and that
trust companies should have the same
supervision as national banks. One
gratifying condition is tho excellent
condition of the National Treasury.
The income of the nation during the
paRt six years reached the enormous
sum of $3,465,000,000, exceeding the
expenditures by $190,000,000.
For this reason, says the President,
it will be unwise to make sweeping
changes in the tariff. Despite often
repeated reports to the contrary, Pres
ident Roosevelt is sound on the Re
publican tariff doctrine. He says:
"This country is definitely committed
(o the protective system and any ef
fort to root it up could not but cause
widespread Industrial disaster. There
must always be as a minimum a tar
iff which will not only allow for the
collection of an ample revenue but
which at least make good the differ
ence in cost of production
here and abroad; that is the
difference in the labor cost
here and abroad, for the well be
ing of the wage-worker must ever be a
cardinal point of American policy."
That is a good platform upon which to
go before the people next November.
However, the President Is not averse
to making such changes of obsolete
schedules as will best serve the pur
poses outlined above and he favors
the removal of the tariff on wood pulp,
in order to protect the American for
ests which are being devastated In
order to furnish material for paper
making.
Considerable space is devoted to a
recommendation for the federal invest
igation of railroad accidents, the con
servation of our natural resources and
the use of our inland waterways. On
reclamation he says, that "Irrigation
should be far more extensively devel
oped than at present" and "the Feder
al government should seriously de
vote Itself to this task." He declares
that the public land system "has large
ly broken down when .applied to the
dryer regions, of the Great Plains, the
mountains, and much of the Pacific
slope, where a farm of 1C0 acres is in
adequate for self-support. The laws
themselves are defective." Of special
interest to New Mexico is the recom
mendation of a leasing system to ap
ply to the public range so as to permit
fencing. He says: "Fencing is the
only way by which to keep In check
the owners of nomad flocks which roam
hither and thither, utterly destroying
the pastures and leaving a waste be
hind so that their presence la Incom
patible with the presence of homemak-
ers. The existing fences are all Illegal
those that are hurtful as well as those
that are beneficial and must come
down. But it is an outrage that the
law should necessitate such action on
the part of the administration."
nation. The advice to preserve the
forests is followed with a recommenda
tion that the nation should also take
care of Its fuel supply, especially the
coal, oil and gas fields.
The President urges the passage of
laws to establish a postal banks sys
tem and of an adequate parcels post
system. In discussing postal affairs he
also recommends that fourth class
postmasters be placed under the civil
service.
Congress is urged to create a Bureau
of Mining. In concluding, the Presi
dent advises legislation to meet the
needs of both Navy and Army.
Upon the subject of statehood for
New Mexico and Arizona, the message
is silent, as had been foreshadowed.
But, as the President has pledged him
self to support New Mexico In its ef
forts to attain statehood and has per
mitted this pledge to bo made public,
there was no necessity of incorporat
ing such a recommendation in the
message although to us In New Mexico
it i3 not clear what harm would have
been done, if the President, after
speaking of the admission of Oklaho
ma, had embodied a sentence advising
that this Territory be made a state.
While the Daily New Mexican, and
undoubtedly many people In the South,
west, will not say "Yea and Amen,"
to every word of the message, which
covers C3 closely printed pages of
book-size, especially when the Presi
dent speaks of grazing, forestry and
other essentially western topics, yet
all in all, there is much to praise and
much to support in the document and
it is in every respect safe and sane and
bound to inspire confidence not only
at home, but also abroad.
CURSE OF YELLOW JOURNALISM.
Mistakes will happen in the best
regulated families and very often in
newspaper offices. Errors and mis
tatements in the news are liable to
occur and if commltteed unwittingly
or because of mis-information, scarcity
of facts or for similar reasons they
should be condoned by the reading
public. Otherwise this should not be
the case. In yesterday's Issue of the
Albuquerque Journal appeared a dis
patch giving the news of the brutal
murder of Miss Jennie Tcmpleton at
Velarde Saturday last. The simple
facts are atrocious and brutal and
needed no coloring. Unfortunately the
first news was very meager, and a
mistake was made by this newspaper
and others in good faith by designating
the murdered woman as a Baptist mis
sionary upon information received in
a dispatch from Taos. This was not
the case. The man who committed
the foul crime claimed to have been
drunk and made a full confession.
Unfortunately for the good name of
reasons they have for connecting him
with the crime.
"Suspicion points to Mexicans, as
the murderers, for the reason that they
have always opposed Christianizing
or the Indians In that region.
"Miss Templeton was working und
er the direction of the Baptist mission
ary board of New York City.
"Her predecessor at the mission,
Phoebe How:.rd, wa8 killed In a sim
ilar manner at Embudo several years
ago, and her slayers were never cap-tured."
, A falsehood especially when couch
ed in such sensational and high flown
language is hard to catch and while
'the truthful version of the unfortunate
and horrible affair when read by the
people will convince them that the
crime was one of those awful occur
rences that happen too often for. the
good of the country In large cities and
for that matter in the country sections,
yet the dissemination of dispatches
like the above quoted 'from the Albu
querque Journal', everi if i afterwards
followed by the truth must and will
count against New Mexico and its
people as there are and always
will be people who are more prone to
believe evil than good and swallow
fake stories easily and comfortably.
Too much yellow journalism Is a
curse, a great drawback In every re
spect and subversive of good govern
ment and against public policy. There
are many correspondents and .newspa
pers that will stretch out any news,
especially criminal, of the muck-raking
kind, of a scandalous character or
that contains vicious, venomous and
untruthful assaults upon public men,
for the sake of the pay that the corre
spondents receive or to increase circu
lation of tho papers, or to make polit
ical capital, or to get even for the low
est and dirtiest motives. Part of this
very bad and unsatisfactory condition
in the matter of the publication of yel
low sheets and yellow news must be
placed upon the readers of these
sheets who varaciously and gluttonous
ly -devour anything and everything
black on white that describes crime and
criminals in red and flaring headlines,
that brings to the surface the depravi
ty and immorality of human nature,
that assails and destroys the charact
ers and' reputations unjustly and un
fairly of men and women, and that
reaks 'with fiendish tales of outrages,
of murder, of burglary, of political dis
honesty or corruption, and of heinous
violations of the law and of the moral
code. Legitimate and proper news of
all occurrences is one thing and the
publication of fakes, of lies, of libels,
of prevarications of misstatements in
yellow sheets is another thing. It is
really indeed a great pity that these
days there is too much of the lattei
and that some of this nefarious faking
is done at home and is wallowed In by
a few dally and weekly yellow 'sheets
in Albuquerque, in Roswell, in Santa
Fe and in a few other small towns.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
MAX. FROST,
Attorney at Law.
8anU Fe New Mexico
ANDREWS' STATEHOOD BILL
NO. 4.
House Bill No. 4, introduced by Dele
gate W. H. Andrews, for an enabling
act for New Mexico, contains many
generous and liberal provisions
for tho benefit of the new
state. Delegate Andrews prepar
ed the bill very carefully and in
every direction looked out minutelj
and effectively for the interests of the
new state. The bill contains the most
liberal and generous provisions made
so far for any state that has gained
admission into the Union from the date
of the Declaration of Independence. If
It passes In Its present form and New
Mexico enters into the sisterhood of
states under its declarations the new
1 A A 111 1. Vint .trtAnA lM A V.
siuie win ue iut ueai. piuviueu ivi hu-
ancially, except Texas.
The bill appropriates $5,000,000 for
the territory, dispatches were sent out the benefit of the public schools, a
from here and from Denver riving un- larg amount of public lands for the
true and highly colored versions of the benefit of the territorial institutions,
affair. Several of them stated that the and more . lands for the payment of
murdered woman was a missionary the railroad bonded debts of Santa Fe
teacher and had been killed by Indi- and Grant counties, which Indebted
an .pupils. Another dispatch was sent tss was legalized by act of Congress,
from this city to the Albuquerque Its sections concerning the electorate,
Journal which was so sensational, so 'the number and apportionment of dele-
devoid of facts and which so strongly EateB; t0 tne constitutional convention,
assails some of New Mexico's popula- and the method of providing for their
tion, namely the native people 6f the election and the holding of the const
district, that it may prove very tutlonal convention are of the best.
Injurious and very detrimental, espec- Tnere is not a line in it that can or
ially at this time. It is republished ouSht to Justlv objected to by pa
herewith and is as follows: triotic and decent citizens of the Sun-
"Santa Fe, N. M., Dec. 2. Miss Tern- shine Territory who have the best in
pleton, the only white woman mission- terests of the community at large at
ary at the Baptist Indian mission at heart. The chances for its passage are
Velarde, Rio Arriba county, was bru- excellent and -with the right kind of
tally . murdered yesterday, either: by work on the part of the united people,
Mexicans or Indians. Full detaiis of the outlook for the new state is of the
the crime are lacking but an uncon-,: brightest and, most promising. The
firmed report has it ..that Miss Tenv Plan to send a delegation of represent
pleton was assaulted before being put &tive citizens duly apportioned accord
to death. David Martinez y Sanchez to location, politics, standing in the
Is under arrest as a suspect: . ' ' community, worth, etc., to the nation-
"The brief news of the murder was al -capital .to-work for Its favorable
contained in a brief telegram received consideration- and to aid Delegate W.
from Taos today by District Judge H.. Andrews in his labors for its pass
John R. McFIe. Summoning Captain- age Is sensible, timely and politic. Now
Foraoff of the mounted police;' Judge 1 the time and the national capital is
McFIe and District Attorney Gortner, the place where the good people of
accompanied him to. Velarde to make New Mexico regardless of party must
a thorough investigation and take Put in tneir nest lanors ana tneir most
such action as they deemed, necessary' energetic and well directed efforts. r
to capture the murderer or murderers. " '" 1
A posse was also formed at Taos to After all, at times there Is not much
take part in the chase. in a name. A day or two ago U. fl.
"Miss Templeton's body, mutilated Senators Kittredge and Gamble of
Q. W. PRICHi- WD,
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Practices In all the District Courts
and gives special attention to cases
before the Territorial Supreme Court.'
Office: Laughlin Blk., Santa Fe, N. M.
BENJAMIN M. READ
Attorney at Law.
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Office: Sena Block, Palao Avenue.
WILLIAM H. H. LLEWELLYN,
Attorney at Law.
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
United States District Attorney.
A. W. POLLARD,
Attorney at Law.
District Attorney, Luna County.
Deming New Mexico
EDWARD C. WADE,
Attorney at Law.
Practice in the Supreme and Dis
trict Courts of the Territory, In the
Probate Courts and before the U. S.
Surveyor General and U. S. Land
Offices. Las Cruces, N. M.
E. C. ABBOTT,
Attorney at Law.
Practices in the District and Su
preme Courts. Prompt and careful
attention given to all business.
Santa Fe . New Mexico.
A. B. RENEHAN,
Practices in the Supreme and Dis
trict Courts. Mining and Land Law
a Specialty. Office in Catron Block,
Santa Fe, N. M.
CHAS. F. EASLEY.
(Lste Surveyor General.)
Attorney at Law.
S.iuta Fe NewMeilco...
Land and Mining Business a Specialty.
GEORGE 6. BARBER,
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Lincoln, Lincoln County, New Mexico.
Practice In the District Court and
Supreme Courts of the Territory.
Prompt Attention Given to Ail
Business.
FRANK W. CLANCY,
Attorney at Law.
District Attorney for Second Judicial
District.
Practices in the District Court and
the Supreme Court of the Territory;
also before the United States Supreme
Court in Washington.
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
H. B. HOLT,
Attorney at Law.
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Practices in the District Courts as
well as before the Suprem- Court of
tho Territory.
MARK B. THOMPSON
Attorney-at-Law
District Attorney. Eighth District.
Dona Ana, Lincoln and Otero Counties.
Las Cruces New Mexico
HARVIE DUVAL,
Attorney at Law.
Laud, Mining and Corporation Law ex
clusively. Practice in all the District
Courts and Supreme Court. Special
attention to perfecting titles and or
ganizing and financing land and min
ing properties.
Office, Laughlin Bldg., Santa Fe, N. M.
H. M. DOUGHERTY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Practices in the Supreme and District
Courts of the Territory.
Office, Socorro. New Mexico.
CATRON & GORTNER.
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
Catron Block.
Santa Fe New Mexico.
JOHN K. 8TAUFFER,
Notary Public.
Office with the New Mexicai Print
ing Co., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
ROMAN L. BACA,
Real Estate and Mines.
Spanish Translator, Notary Public.
Office Griffin Bldg., Washington
Ave., Satita Fe, N. M.
OSTEOPATHY.
DR. CHARLES A. WHEELON,
Osteopath.
No. 103 Palace Ave.
Successfully treats acute and chronic
diseases without drugs or medicines.
. No charge for Consultation.
Hours: 9-12 m., 2-5 p. id. 'Phone 156
. CONY T. BROWN,
Mining Engineer.
Secretary and Treasurer New Mexico
School of Mines.
Socorrc Newv Mexico.
CORBET & SMYTH E,
; Civil, Mining and Hydraulic Engineers.
Assaying and General Contracting.
U. 8. Deputy Mineral Surveyors.
East side Plaza. Santa Fe, N. M.
almost beyond recognition it is alleg' South Dakota were xlven a division of
ed, was found in a grove near the- the federal offices ; in their state
school house. - . by drawing- lots from the many
"Sanchez, who was arrested on sps- candidates - whose applications were
A considerable part of the message plclon, has been brought to jail here on file in the various f departments.
is devoted to a discussion of the for. .for nafekeepinr He denies '- all Senator Kittredge secured the lion's
estry policy and it predicts & timber I knowledge th murder and. tha au- share and Senator Gamble came out
famine that will be disastrous to the thorttles reJv v V wai known what at the'staall end of the horn
DAVID M, WHITE, C. E.
(Late Territorial Engineer.)
Irrigation, Water Supply, Railroad
and Bridge Building.
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
E. W. HART.
Architects.
Plans Specifications and Supervision,
' Address.
Rooms 5 and 6 Pioneer Bldg
East Las Vogas,
N. 1C.
TflE FIRST flATIOpL BAJ
OF SANTA TE.
The oldest banking Institution In New Mexico. Established In 1870.
RUFUS J. PALEN, President. JOHN H. VAUGHN, Cashier.
LEVI A. HUGHES, Vice Presl dent ALFRED H. BRODHEAD,
Assistant Cashier.
Capital 8tock, $150,000.
Surplus and Undivided Profits 163,500.
Transacts a general banking business In all Its branches. Loans
money on the most favorable terms on all kinds of personal and col
lateral security. Buys and sells bonds and stocks in all markets for
Its customers. Buys and sells domestic and foreign exchange and
makes telegraphic transfers of money to all ports of the civilized
world on as liberal terms as are grven by any money transmitting
agency, public or private. Interest allowed on time deposits at the
rate of three per cent per annum, on six months' or year's term.
Liberal advances made on cons Ignments of live stock and products.
The bank executes all orders of its patrons in the banking line, and
alms to extend to them as liberal treatment in all respects, as It con
consistent with safety and the principles of sound banking. Safety De
posit boxes for rent. The patronage of the public la respectfully solicited.
HOTEL
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One of the Best Hotels in the West
Cui&im And TaHe Service Unexcelled
Large Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers.
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