Speech #500184066

But this matter isso important and so dangerous even. and the crisis: is so imminent. that I should consider myself false to every consideration of duty to my constituency and to the country at large if I did not say something in regard to it. brought as it islhere now before us. I did not intend to allude to the fact that there is imminent danger of collision and trouble upon the border unless some legislation is adopted by Congress. but since the Senato! from Illinois alludes to it it is an open secret well known that 30.000 people are now awaiting the action of Congress. many of them with mistaken and false views as to the condition of this question. men who can not understand why it is that a few speculators and cattle barons can hold 6.200.000 acres of land. without an Indian upon it except those that were placed there by the Gov ernment of the United States. other than the Cherokees. whilst the white people of the United States. the men who sustain this Government. and upon whose energy and brain our civilization at last depends. are excluded by the action of the Federal Government from enterhig into that domain. Sir. there have been wiser men puzzled by such questions. andif the plain. simple people of the frontier. if the immigrants to that country can not understLd it. it is not their fault. but ours. Now. Mr.