At the same time if he has a homestead and is a good laboring man. an honest. industrious citizen. he will not want credit.- "He need not obtain credit by the mortgage or pledge of his land. The fact of his being there permanently with his family. of his improving his land. will give to his creditorwho wishes to provide him with a horse or a wagon. or whatever it may be necessary for his business. encouragement to advance him the money. to give him credit. So I think the suggestion made by the Senator from Oregon is not a very important one as compared with the suggestion which I make. that if you shorten up the period at which the party by commutation can take these lands at the minimum price from the Government you thereby gndanger the country with that floodof immigration which we are now trying really to resist in some form.
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