But if the Senator merely means to say that under the beneficent provisions of these acts of Congress as well for the States as for the settlers. some people would make profit who did not give proper consideration for it. like this fifteenthousandacre man. then I agree to it. because the millennium has not come. and everybody is not always found willing. except in the case of the Committee on Public Lands. to omit to avail himself of what he thinks the law may give him if he can make anything out of it. That I admit. and that is all there is to it. Then we come back. without spending any more time on that. to the proposition that I started out with in this connection. that this provision for omitting taxation for five years. instead of being a con. sideration given by the State for the 5 per cent. on sales that was to be expended in a certain way. was quite. on the other hand. a wise and wholesome provision of public policy by the governing power of the country that had a right to admit the State or leave it a Territory. that in order to build up the State in the most rapid and stable way possible..immigrants should be induced to move in and settle by having this relief for that period. Now. let us go a little further. Mr.
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