The eagle., April 08, 1896, Page 8, Image 8

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A XEW IDEA.
The eastern gold bugs have late
ly been filled with a new variety of
horror. They have heen opposing
the admission of New Mexico nnd
Arizona on account of the free sil
ver tendency of the two territories,
hut now a new fear has siezed them.
They are afraid that if statehood
for these territories is put off much
longer tho people of tho territories
will get the idea into their heads
that the territories are too largo
and ought to be sub-divided. Now
as each sub-division would increase
tho number of United States sena
tors by two and as every one of the
senators from this nart of the union
may be relied upon to vote early
and often for silver, those people
in the east who have been worship,
ing the golden calf for many years
are already considering whether
it would not be better to admit the
territories at once, before there is
any agitation for division.
The New York Journal recently
printed an article bearing on this
subject which is by no means un
interesting reading and we repro
duce it. The article is as follows:
Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
homa want to have done with the
cumbersome system of territorial
government and enter into the not
unalloyed joys of statehood. Un
der our system, of course, it has al
ways been contemplated that when
the population mjd condition of the
territories had reached a standard
they should become self-govering
communities.
Nowdays there is little legislature
that has not busings or political
expediency as a 1 tor, if not as a
basis. It has been the fashion of
the east to oppose the admission of
western states, because it tended to
diminish the power and threaten
the political supremacy of tho At
lantic states in the national legis
lative assemblies. Tho division of
Dakota, and the creation of two
states, with full powers and repre
sentation, when there need only
ha vo been one, has introduced a new
factor into tho question. Arizona
and New Mexico, each 500 miles
square as large as all of New En
glandmight take it into their
legislative minus to split up into
two or three states apiece, and so
come into the union finally as vast
ly more serious quantities in tho
make-up of majorities than at pre
sent. With silver legislation
threatening, and a vast number of
other questions to come up in
which tho west may bo arrayed
against the east, the number of
prospective states must bo a mat
ter of serious concern. This cold
blooded way of looking at it is not
as mercenary as it seems. A bit of
legislation may be none the less
meritorious or meretricious because
it is advocated or opposed for polit-1
ical reasons. The legislation on
the Cuban question is a caso in I
point. I
The moral or immoral of all this
is that the cowboy territories will
become states now or later on, as
congress calculates the disadvan
tage of having them in and the
dose over with in their present sing
ular oanaeitv. or oWta
I the plural evils later on.
REP URL ÍCA .v oprxiow
The citizens of New Mexico
should tnder a vote of thanks to
the republican editor of Leslie's
Weekly for being able to crowd
moro misinformation about New
Mexico into a small space than has
ever before been accomplished by
even tho most malignant of tho
enemies of New Mexico.
In an article which appeared in
that paper on April 2, entitled "Let
New Mexico Wait," there is printed
this astounding information:
"There is no conceivable justifi
cation of a policy which would
build a state out of the heterogen
eous alien elements which it is pro
posed by this bill to constitute as a
district autonomy. The population
of New Mexico is not only mixed
and without coherency of language,
customs, or tastes, but it is igno
rant and, to a considerable oxt3nt,
actually pagan. Only a meagro
minority of the people are even ap
proximately qualified for theduties
of citizenship or the responsibili
ties of government, and no greater
violence could be done to our re
publican system than to admit a
territory thus populated, with con
ditions so unfriendly,, to theoxerciso
of sovereignty as a state of tho un
ion." It might do the uneducated edi
tor of Leslie's Weekly some good
to study the latest census report,
lie would be able to discover somo
of his errors. In the first place tho
proportion of aliens in New Mexi
co to the population is vastly less
than in New York city. In tho
next place, the proportion of regular
attendants at divine worship to
population is vastly greater in New
Mexico than in New York city,
where this wonderful editor lives.
Again, the proportion of criminals
to population in New York is
greater than in New Mexico, and
finally there are more pagans in
New York th in in New Mexico.
There is much for the editor of Les
lie's Weekly to learn about his own
country. Col. Abe Slupsky should
tako him in hand.
Tiik manufacturers of the coun
try are studying the silver question
and the probabilities are that with
in a year the great majority of man
ufacturers will be in favor of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
Manufacturers are, as a class, an
intelligent lot of people and all
that is roquired to mako a man an
advocate of free coinage is a fair
amount of intellect honestly and
industriously npplicd to tho silver
question, hence there are excellent
reasons to ho,)e that the manufac
turers will be on the right side of
the silver question as soon as they
have had an opportunity to study
the question.
When it comes to getting his
sons appointed to soft places St.
Catron is a hummer.