Speech #560150113

Homes for 25.000.000 people can be secured in the arid regions of the United States in addition to the population already there if the Government will take steps to reserve the reservoir sites and reserve the water from private appropriation. We have waited too long already. and there is no more time to wait if you would preserve this vast property for the people of the United States. More people of our race could find homes in that country by the expenditure of half the money we have spent on it already in trying to force. 10.000.000 of the Asiatics to come under our dominion. people of our race. who would inhabit the region west of the Missouri River. consume our products. and make a market for the manufacturers of the East and business for the railroads of the country. We have tried for years to secure an appropriation for this purpose directly out of the Treasury. and although the Senate has always favored it and we have passed appropriation after appropriation. the other House has always refused. I will give the reason.