Speech #460053879

I do not think it would do so. but I do not know much about the speculations in the State of Indiana or how they managed them there. I am speaking of the principle and the tenor of this compact between the United States and the State of Indiana and the other States. I am not speaking of the fact that under these laws or any other law it may happen that combinations of speculators and evilminded men can get together and impede the prosperity of a State either by discouraging manufactures or by buying up large blocks of land and excluding immigration. although I have never heard. I confess. that in the State of Indiana all the land there was bought up. that her population did not increase in an enormous degree and with an almost unprecedented rapidity. The speculators may have been there. the blocks may have been made. but there was still ample room that was occupied by the sgettler who devoted his labor to the improvement of the soil and to the building up of the tremendous prosperity and the great welfare of that State.