It came into the Union with a greater population and more electoral votes than some of the New England States. In. thet great imperial State of Missouri the values of farm lands are rising every year. We need every acre of that fertile soil for the homes of untold millions. For two generations the tide of immigration has swept across the broad bosom of our State and on beyond to fill the free cheap lands of the West. Today those free cheap lands are gone. Uncle Sam has no more farms to give away. except in the arid region. where the expense of irrigation must precede cultivation.
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