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The fragments on the dump, however, were only country rock. In later years gorgeous tales of rich ore at the bottom of the shallow shaft resulted in a series of claim-jumpings which in their turn netted no less than eleven murders, but the slayers only wasted their powder, for the ground here never yielded anything more interesting than dead men's bones.
Claim-jumping is still accepted and widely practised among the nations. That is, in fact, the way in which all empires have been built by a succession of successful claim-jumpings. Consider the most impressive of them all, the old Roman empire. Rome was a city near the mouth of the Tiber.
Such justification, however, is after the fact: it is not moral justification of the building of the empire. That represented a succession of claim-jumpings. For an illustration from more modern history, take the greatest international crime of the last five hundred years, with one exception the partition of Poland.
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