The truth is, the Indians never had any real title to the soil; they had not half as good a claim to it, for instance, as the cattlemen now have to all eastern Montana, yet no one would assert that the cattlemen have a right to keep immigrants off their vast unfenced ranges.
Roosevelt claims that Native Americans had no legitimate title to the land, comparing their claims to those of cattlemen.
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