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Show It is well said, why should the arid West not have its share of the great sums of money which are being expended ex-pended by the national government lor internal improvements. What good reason can be advanced why the western west-ern states and territories should con-' con-' Miuic to contribute to building- such improvements for the East and the Souih unless the West is given a fair proportion of expenditures for such purposes'? Eastern states whether seaboard sea-board or interior, get their proportion of river and harbor appropriations, but the arid states of the West get nothing, even while they contribute their share to these expenses. |