I doubt if any session of Congress in the next half a dozen years would consent to so sweeping a measure. The effect of the repeal of these laws would be to deprive a vast number of the people who are coming into this country now seeking homes of the opportunity of acquiring a home on the public domain except under the fiveyear homestead law. which. as I have undertaken to show. is somewhat antiquated and which is not calculated to serve the purpose of the class of people who are seeking to better their condition. Another effect of the repeal of this law would be that the tide of immigration which is coming to this country would be turned into Canadainto the Northwest Territorywhere the most flattering inducements are being offered to people to settle on public lands. and today the agents of the Canadian government are in this country soliciting such immigration. I met one of these agents about a year ago in St. Paul. and he asked me particularly about the repeal of these laws.
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