industry. I cannot relinquish this sacred trust." "Well," says Uncle Sam, "the boys in Washington say, that if you don't sell out peaceably, they will pass a prohibition law, prohibiting you and everybody else from manufacturing and selling coal oil and gasoline, and they say if we do that, we could buy your grease business as cheap then as we can now buy the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in Oklahoma City."
John D. is one of those long-headed business men we read about in the Sunday school books, and before Rocky goes out of business without getting a cent, as Anheuser-Busch did in Oklahoma, he will say: "Uncle, I think I'll take that hundred million."
Where Are You Going to Get the Money?
Now comes our Republican and Democrat doubting Thomas, and says: "Well and good, but where are you going to get the money from?" Well, boys, I'll tell you. Uncle Sam runs a great money factory in the City of Washington, where he makes all kinds of money—green-backs, yellow-backs, and gray-backs, and as long as he puts his name to it, it is good money. The boys in that great moneyshop work by the day and not by the piece, and they don't care a continental how many ciphers they put behind a figure. They'd just as soon make a thousand dollar bill as a one dollar bill.
Uncle Sam steps into the shop some afternoon and says: "Boys, I have just bought the Standard Oil Company from Rockefeller. I want a hundred million dollars of those new two per cent gold bonds, the kind you made when we bought the Panama Canal property. It's half past three now. We quit at five o'clock. Now be sure and have that hundred million in bonds ready
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