People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — Who Owns the Land? [ARTICLE]

Who Owns the Land?

The railroad companies own 000 acres, or enough to make sin states as large as lowa. The Vanderbilts own over 2;000;000 acres; Mr. Disston, of' Pennsylvania, owns over 4,000,000, the Standard OIL Co., 1,000,000, and. Murphy, of California, an area equal to the state of Massachusetts. The Shonely estate: owns land from which the heirs have- received annually $1,000,000. Twenty-one million aerea are owned by foreigners, who owe no allegiance to our government, add are no friends to a republic. What will our children own?.'—aright to. pay rent. —Labor World.