Why. sir. I know nothing in the world to parallel it except that great assertion in our immortal Declaration of Independence that the King of England "has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people. and eat out their substance." And one even more pertinent than that in the Declaration of Independence: "He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States" by "raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. t These memorialists from Montana contend that the policy of the Secretary of the Interior will depopulate their country. The early settlers of this continent. the old revolutionary stock. with whose struggles and hardships and contests the Secretary of the Interior is not expected to have much sympathy. but some of us have a right to. complained of King George that he stopped emigration hero by raising "new conditions for the appropriation of the public lands." The Secretary of the Interior is doing precisely that. imposing conditions that are absolutely impracticable and that in the language of this memorial will stop emigration to that Territory and. in the end. depopulate it if enforced. I have no desire. Mr.
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