All communities divide themselves into the few and the many.
The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people. . . . It is an unjust and evil system. Throughout the1850s, state governments GAVE railroad speculators 25 million acres of public land FREE of charge, along with millions of dollars in loans. During the Civil War, the national government gave railroad capitalists over 100 million acres of land. By 1904, the railroad had concentrated from a thousand disparate lines to six conglomerates, allied with either Morgan or Rockefeller interests.