Those laws were made by statesmen of great ability who could foresee what the laws would do. and we have the proof before bur eyes of what they were intended to do in the happy homes with which those States are dotted. But such lands are now exhausted. The great wave of immigration after settling the Atlantic coast has with steady progress covered the whole of the great Middle West. and is now reachink out into the arid sections. into what was known. when we studied geography as schoolboys. as the Great American Desert. and they find conditions absolutely different from what they were in these States. which have been so successfully settled under the homestead laws as they were. This great tide of immigration has overflomed the Southwest as well as the Northwest. has filled up Arkansas. Oklahoma. Kansas. and Texas.
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