What a period in the worlds history it would be. unparalleled and tremendous I Yet such a Europe is being created by this generation west of the Mississippi. And within the bosom of these few years is folded not only tie future of the mighty West. but the nations destiny. for. as we have seen. the West is to dominate the East. Now. with the rapid accumulation of wealth and the tremendous growth of our population from natural causes and from immigration. land will become scarce and dear. and N hen land becomes scarce and dear the safetyvalve of republican institutions is closed. The best writers on this subject agree. and the best statisticians agree. that the last acre of the public land will be gone before the close of this century. and when the last acre of the public domain has been closed. when the last acre is closed to your poor landless man in city and country. to your mortgaged farmer. upon whose land the mortgage has been foreclosed. then will come the strain which these men have said would be the test of republican institutions. I would rather see the policy adhered to in this House even of slowly opening the Indian reservations.
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