Mass.. a foreign population of 43 per cent. And so I might go on with many other places with large percentages of foreignersand remember these are real foreignerspeople born in other countries. while these native New Mexicans are every one born on the soil of New Mexico. and are no more to be classed as foreigners than are the Acadians of Louisiana. who are of French extraction. or the Penn colonists of Pennsylvania. I submit that these New Mexicans. the vast majority of whom are of pure Castilian extraction. the highest type of the original Americans. of the Caucasian race. and the people who blazed the way for all European nations on this continent. (The few thousands of New Mexicans who are mixed with the Pueblo Indians do not in a sense detract from the truth of this general statement.) I say these people are vastly superior to some of the elements that come through Castle Garden annually to scatter over the country and who are now and have for these many years helped to govern the people in these Territories. for last year we received from foreign lands a million immigrants to dilute our civilization. Evidence was submitted to the committee that the natives of New Mexico of Spanish extraction are lawyers. doctors. clergymen. educators. and editors in about the same proportion to their numbers as are those of the other races inhabiting the Southwest. and we are assured that as to this class there is practically no difference between them and others of the community save that they possess the accomplishment of being thoroughly conversant with two modern languages instead of one. I might add that one of the principal good things that can l)e said about them is that as a class the entire native population of New Mexico has sense enough to be intensely Republican in politics.
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