The Las Vegas Daily Optic thus pointedly and fully answers this unwarranted position: In this article. which is one of the least abusive that we have seen. it will be noticed that figures are taken from the condition of New Mexico before the railroads had reached her borders. If such criticism had been applied to the muchvaunted Dakota. before railroads had been continued to that section. it Is doubtful if she could have made even so good a showing as New Mexico is able to make. notwithstanding the fact that the figuresare manipulated by her bitter partisan enemies. Then. too. on what ground does the Tribune assert that immigrants from Old Mexico are not desirable? On what ground does it put them as inferior to the Swedes. Hungarians.
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Immigrants from Old Mexico are considered undesirable and inferior to other groups.