I do not think it in the interest of the Pacific coast that the bill should pass. If I wore a member from the Pacific coast. I would insist upon the system that is now the law in my State and in the States of Kansas and Nebraska. by which the public lands are offered for sale and are sold at the tuinimum price of $1.25 to anybody. also subject to entry under the preemption law. and also subject to the homestead law. thus giving the largest and broadest facilities to invite emigration. We of the West a few years ago needed population. We have a fair share of it now. They of the extreme West on the Pacific coast need that today which we needed some years agopopulation. and the greatest inducement for population to go to a country is cheap and good lands. especially for this AngloSaxon r.c.e. Hold out to the emigrant of the East and of the Middle States and of Europe the fact that on the coast of the Pacificin Oregon. Washington and Califofniathere axe vast districts of fruitful land to be had at a dollar and a quarter. vast district% of large soil to be taken up by the preemption or the homestead law. and you give that invitation which has always led the emigrant. "Come and take these lands." and they will come. They have come heretofore and they will come again. But as it is now a mian cannot get any land in any of these States excepting as a preemptioner or a homesteader. which is very restricted.
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