Mr. Speaker. the growth and development of Kansas. especially of the southwestern portion of the State. in the last three years. has been the wonder of the century. Ask the careful observer what one cause has done more to work this miracle than all others. and he will answer: "The preemption law." Ask the cattlemen what it was that destroyedjhis range. scattered his herds. and ignored his wire fences. and lie will answer: "It was the preemption law." Write to your old constituent who leftIllinoisor Iowa and went out upon the Western domain and ask him what it was that induced him to go outthere. and he will answer you from a Kansas farm: "It was the preemption law." I have no doubt that some gentlemen here would like well enough to cut off that emigration to Kansas and retain these emigrants in their own districts. and therefbre there may be some consistency in their efforts to repeal the preemption law. But. Mr.
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