Speech #630291693

I might and might not. it would depend upon whether I considered it particularly desirable to have homesteads made on it. I do not consider that it is particularly desirable to spend a great amount of money in making arid land capable of producing crops when we have a great deal of land already capable of producing crops that is not being employed. If we were crowded for land. the gentlenmns proposition would have more merit. but we are not. and what the gentleman is proposing is that we constantly stimulate immigration into a section which is less worthy of development than other sections of the country.