THE MEXICAN IN NEW MEXICO 39 



on the warmest summer mornings to talk of 

 the languor induced by climate is surely the 

 vainest of follies ! It is the land of poco 

 tievipo by reason of the nations that inhabit 

 it the mixed Southern blood, the acknow- 

 ledged deterioration following on the crossing 

 of the white and the coloured races (a well- 

 known fact where the negro is concerned, and 

 as yet uncontradicted, speaking generally, in 

 the case of the Indian), the prevalence of the 

 bad man (white), the predominance in the 

 population of mere politicians and selfish office 

 seekers and money grabbers. What wonder 

 that the small minority of public - spirited 

 citizens lose heart ! But it is not * the climate ' 

 which causes honest workers to drop back in 

 the collar ; it is the impossibility, as it may 

 well appear to them, of hauling such a load 

 of obstructionists and incapables. In sections 

 of the Territory where capital has been judi- 

 ciously employed, and politics have been, 

 comparatively speaking, ignored, with the 

 result that intelligent and thrifty citizens have 

 flocked to such sections, talk concerning the 

 land vtpoco tiempo dies away into silence. The 

 climate is, in fact, all in favour of the worker. 



