Our people have suffered long and grievously under the evils of this landsubsidy system. We have sat by and have seen onethird of the arable lands in our fair State wrested from the public domain and given over to private capital. We have seen immigration turn its back upon us in a land that grows the pine and the myrtle. that rears upon its broad breast the wheat field. the vineyard. and the orchard. and all because corporate greed has placed upon lands donated to it a price beyond the means of the husbandman. We ask in the name of the American settlerthe hewers of wood. the tillers of the soil. the bone and sinew of this landthat the unearned portion of this grant be forfeited. returned to the public domain. and thrown open to settlement under the wise and legitimate provisions of law governing the distribution of our public lands. [Here the hammer fell.]
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