come out of the business." And then he will turn around to the consumer and say: "You have been in the habit of paying ten to twenty cents for a gallon of coal oil or gasoline. We are going to cut down that price by and by, but not until Rockefeller is paid."
Well, do you think that the boys would run away from their job, just because we got Socialism in the grease business? Do you believe that the Republicans and the Democrats, who voted against it, would run away from the job? Have you ever heard of a Republican or a Democrat who ever ran away from a government job? Is it not a fact that they are running their legs off, clear up to the second knuckle, just to get a government job? And so it will be perfectly safe to assume they will hang on to their positions, and give to Uncle Sam the same faithful service that they formerly gave to Rocky.
Now, if the same people who worked for the Standard will work for the government for the same wages and the same number of hours, and if the product is sold for the same price to the consumer, then it follows, as day follows night, that the profits at the end of the year will be the same as before, and since these yearly profits just about equal one-half the value of the Standard Oil Company, we are able to give to Mr. Rockefeller the hundred million dollars at the end of the second year and he returns our bonds.
From now on we have Socialism in the grease business proper. Dividends and interests are abolished. Every. one of the 12,000 employes of the Standard created a surplus for the stockholders of about $4,000 a year. But there are no more stockholders to be paid, no more melons to be cut. The profit will be divided among the producers and the consumers. Uncle Sam could
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