I have not quite finished. I was going to make a very handsome -observation just there. and I should be sorry to lose it. I wanted to ask my honorable friend froni Iowa whether if this five .years limitation against taxation had existed in the State of Iowa. and thereby the emigrationi from the other States of the Union had been promoted. (and if it was not promoted. of course the limit of taxation would be of no advautage because the lands would not be sold.)so that the pioneers and the settlers and their wives and children. and their .oxen and their wagons. had come in and turned up the prairies and raised wheat and corn and built houses and schools. he thinks it would have been injurious to the State of Iowa to hold out an inducement of that kind. I know what his answer would be. He would say no. just as in old States as well as in new ones. when we wish to enhance or stimulate the prosperity of our respective commonwealths we provide that. for three years or for five or whatever the time. special industries shall be exempt front taxation. the manufacture of iron. the opening of mines. the manufacture of cotton. anything that the private citizen will invest his capital inwhich is labor as well as money.
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