Speech #550011500

Mr. President. that the older States might find occasion for taking some exception to this broad bestowal of the public lands. but it must be remembered that the older States have had the advantage of the revenues derived from the best lands that were sold by the Government of the United States all over the Union. and for the purpose of replenishing the Treasury of the United States. and therefore of saving taxation upon the other parts of the country. there has been an immense burden imposed upon the people of the new States. They have been deprived in a very large sense of the advantages that they could secure to themselves by immigration to their respective States. * If the pending amendment is adopted. I do not suppose at all that the new States and Territories (the land States and Territories. as they are called) would undertake to deprive the people of proper homestead privileges. Naturally. every State would find its legislation influenced by an earnest desire to grant these privileges in a definite way to the citizens of their respective jurisdictions.