tag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:/items/aca637e0-2fac-013a-7ba8-02d0d7bfd6e4-cHow the public domain has been squandered : map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporations2023-07-21T15:59:12Ztag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/8151562021-12-07T16:25:11Z2023-07-21T15:59:12ZHow the public domain has been squandered : map showing the 139,403,026 acres of the people's land - equal to 871,268 farms of 160 acres each, worth at $2 an acre, $278,806,052, given by Republican Congresses to railroad corporationsWe believe that the public lands ought, as far as possible, to be kept as homesteads for actual settlers; that all unearned lands heretofore improvidently granted to railroad corporations by the action of the Republican party should be restored to the public domain; and that no more grants of land shall be made to corporations, or be allowed to fall into the ownership of alien absentees. Democratic platform, 1884.--Below map.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library