before quitting time, and don't you spend more than 75 cents' worth of paper on the old geezer." Well, five o'clock comes. Uncle Sam turns the hundred million of bonds over to Rockefeller, and the boys go home for supper. Rockefeller has the money and Uncle Sam has the grease business.
How Are You Going to Run It?
Well, says our opponent, "you have got it all right enough, but how will you run it?" The answer of the Socialist is: "We'll run it with the same people who run it now." For in the Standard Oil Company as in every modern industry, the separation between ownership and labor is perfect. Those who own the business do not run it, and those who run the business, do not own it. It is immaterial to the 12,000 employes of the Standard Oil Company whether they work for Uncle Sam or for John D. Rockefeller. They may not know all of Uncle Sam's nephews and nieces, but neither do they know the stockholders of the Standard Oil Company. From the manager and superintendent, expert accountant and auditor, chemist and salesman, clear down to the tank wagon driver, they are all hired hands. All they want is a good job and regular pay. Uncle Sam has always been a better boss, paid higher wages and gave better working conditions than any other boss in this country.
Uncle Sam will call all these working people together and say: "Boys, I have bought Rockefeller's grease business. From now on you are working for me. I ask you to work for the same wages and the same hours as you did before for a while. I would like to raise your wages, but can't do it just now, because I owe that old skinflint $100,000,000, and the money has got to
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