Speech #500152206

She therefore appears before and Bohemia. while the most unfortunate class of Russians have been you for admission. fulfilling the requirements of law. and demands settled by thousands upon the broad plains of Dakota. and even now admission as a right. At the last election for Delegate in Congress the are loudly calling for substantial aid in their extreme necessity from total vote was 32.627. our citizens of the East. The immigration into New Mexico in this This. it must be remembered. represents a larger number of inhabperiod has been of the best class of farmers from States farther east. itants in New Mexico. where the polling places are widely scattered who have greatly aided in the progress of the Territory. Such has than in a more thickly settled vicinity. The Congressional Directory been the development that I do not hesitate to affirm that a knowledge discloses the striking fact that more votes were east at this election of Spanish would not be half so essential in the remotest part of New than were cast in electing Representatives to this Congress in two hunMexico as a knowledge of Scandinavian in many recently settled parts dred and thirtyeight districts out of a total of three hundred and of Dakota. twentyfive.