Chairman. when it is remembered that this great advance in education has been made without aid from the General Government. such as the newly created States have had in the munificent endowment of public lands within their respective borders for their publicschool systems. and such advance has been made solely by the voluntary taxation of themselves. it is a tribute at once to their forbearance and longsuffering under the repeated denial of their just right to statehood and to their determination to beat down even sectional prejudice and shame out even that partisan necessity which. for party advantage. will perpetrate an illegal. an unconstitutional. an inexcusable wrong on a quarter of a million of American citizens. It has also been said. as an excuse for denying us statehood. that the people of New Mexico are an alien population. That taunt can not apply to the immigrant or American population of our Territory. as it is called in contradistinction to the native or SpanishAmerican people of New Mexico. And by immigrant population I do not mean foreigners from across the water or beyond the confines of the United States. Our percentage of foreignborn is very small. I mean the citizens from the other States of the Union who have settled in New Mexicoand there are not less than 75.000 of them. our superintendent of public schools puts it in his report for this year at 90.000these adventurous pioneers who have exactly the same characteristics as the others who haye settled the great West and all of the States in it.
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