All we ask is that the laws shall be res ected and executed all over the United States. North and South alike. Did it ever occur to you gentlemen to ask the question why it is that the North is filling up so with immigration while the South lags behind I Have yonever studied this question any ? While canvassing my district last fall my attention was called especially to that fact. Way up in the northernmost part of the lower peninsula of my State I found a new county filling up with astonishing rapidity. In three counties of my district there have been opened up and put in cultivation during the last year over fortyfive thousand acres of wild land. and from what I can learn there has been in that district alone during the past three years more immigration than into any entire southern State. except Texas. Now. why is it? When I was up in that country I asked men there why it was that they sought homes in such a cold climate when the South was full of unoccupied lands ?
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