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closed the door to statehood in her own 

 face. To quote this authority : 



' As we look back over the strange history 

 of New Mexico through three centuries and 

 a half, since Europeans first trod her plains, 

 there will be impressed upon the thoughtful 

 mind the conviction that her people have 

 lacked certain qualities which have quickly 

 built up States east and north of her 

 boundaries.' 



Intelligent immigrants, untrammelled by 

 ecclesiastical control ; a public education 

 1 that shall train her youth to loyalty, in- 

 dependence of thought and vote, and to 

 self-respecting industry and enterprise as 

 citizens ' these, our author truly remarks, 

 are among the qualifications necessary for 

 admission to statehood. To conclude in his 

 own words : 



1 With these conditions fulfilled, New 

 Mexico will be welcomed to the American 

 Union, to share the future greatness and 

 glory of the nation, to whose possessions 

 she will add her fair country, from whose 

 lofty plateaus rise shining peaks like gems in 



