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should always go where most clamored after, or 

 even where most liberally paid, though either of 

 these things affords an indication of where he ought 

 to locate. In the foregoing pages, a shrewd and 

 persevering man cannot fail to discover where he is 

 most wanted as well as the ways and means, how 

 and where, to plant his stakes. If at a loss to de 

 cide, such hesitation cannot spring from lack of op 

 portunities, but from their abundance. It is here 

 apparent that everywhere around him there are 

 openings that lie waiting to be appropriated. No 

 other country in the world presents a similar spec 

 tacle. Throughout Europe, land is at a premium, 

 and labor at a discount. Here the contrary is the 

 rule labor commands the premium, and land is 

 held at the discount. Though slowly acquiring 

 some of this foreign passion for the ownership of 

 land, yet centuries must elapse before the American 

 people become generally imbued with it. Of those 

 who now hunger after freeholds, too many are mere 

 speculators. But recent legislation has placed be 

 yond their grasp the largest portion of the public 

 domain. It remains for the actual settler to crowd 

 them altogether from the arena. 



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