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of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Khode Island, 

 Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Caro- 

 lina, and Georgia the thirteen original States of 

 our Union is 204,001,280 acres, or about fifty mil- 

 lion acres less than have been taken from our public 

 domain and donated to plutocrats and plunderers. 



Another home illustration is that the eight great 

 States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri, have an area of 

 258,549,120 acres, or but little more than has been by 

 law filched from the lands of the people, and granted 

 to a small band of speculating monopolists, to be used 

 as means of extortion and robbery. The magnitude 

 of these grants almost staggers the understanding. 

 There is not, among all the enlightened nations of 

 modern Europe, one that has an area which equals 

 that of our railroad kings. 



The great empire of Austro-Hungary and the 

 kingdom of Italy, with Switzerland and the Nether- 

 lands added, have an area of 250,012,720 acres, or 

 nearly five million acres less than are found in the 

 empire of our railroad despots. The empire of Ger- 

 many, with the kingdoms of Italy, Greece, and Portu- 

 gal, and the Swiss Kepublic, combined, have an area 

 of 251,163,520 acres, or four million acres less than is 

 the area devoted to speculation by our government. 

 France and Sweden united have an area of 238,936,000 

 acres, being nearly twenty million acres less than is 

 held by a small number of railroad magnates in the 

 United States, by favor of Congress, without restric- 

 tion or limit in their use or disposition, and which are 



