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I Include at this point an excerpt of his remarks on that occasion. which I hope Members and others will find interesting and useful. PRAIRIE GRAss RsrNo (By John McClaughry) When this country was first settled by Europeans In the 17th and 18th centuries. there was little expectation that we would fall prey to Indigenous centralized power. That was what most Immigrants gladly left behind them in the Old World. The new settlements were small and widely dispersed. on the rim of a great. fruitful and thinly populated continent. There was none of the industrialization that later did so much to promote giant institutions.