Under a forced. unnatural. and utterly uncalledfor system of forcing settlements on these lands we have made the managers of these great companies enormously and dangerously rich. The great gulf which separates them from the masses of their poorer and yet harder worked countrymen is a dangerous menace to popular government. There was no necessity to force emigration to these public lands. They are being settled all too rapidly for the landless millions of our people. Money grants would have built the railroads if any grant was necessary. land grants are crimes against the country. Instead. as I have said. of giving them a desert to redeem. the enormous emigration which is pouring in on our shores. with the natural increase of our people. this land became almost fabulous in the aggregate of its value after the railroad was built. Mr. Chairman. in the brief time allowed me I want to say afew words in answer to the eloquence which has been poured out here in denuiciation of what is called the spy system inaugurated under General Sparks.
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