Speech #670280432

Of course we have good land. but the good land is expensive land. or it costs a great deal of money to irrigate it. This economic land situation isreally at the base of our humigration problem. Formerly we had lands which would attract the sturdy. steady. selfreliant agricultural immigrant. who would bring his family. establish himself on the soil. build his home there. and help develop the community and be a worthy part of it. With the passing in large measure of such opportunities for the agricultural immigrant we are noW attracting mere laborers. who do not expect to bear permanent allegiance to the new country. who go into large industries and herd together in large cities. bringing with them discontent and revolution and fomenting industTial strife. Many of these people do not have the qualifications. even if they had the desire. to become Americans. Now it is the main and primary purpose of land ollices to help establish American people on the relatively small amount of cheap and at the same time possibl.v productive land which still remains. to mnake the poor mans land available for time poor man.