are hell bound to have the run. We Socialists don't belong to that kind. We want the hay, and if the other fellow wants the run without the hay, bless his little heart, let him have it.
A Lie, a Lie, a Horrible Lie.
Some people may not believe that Rockefeller doesn't run the Standard Oil Company, but we will let the old gentleman speak for himself.
A few years ago, when he was in Judge Landis' Court in Chicago, where he was fined $29,000,000 for disorderly conduct, every cent of which he paid, NIT! he testified under oath—and mind you, Rocky is 70 years old and a Baptist deacon besides, so he surely wouldn't lie: "For nine years I haven't been on the inside of an office belonging to the Standard Oil Company."
Why, the old gentleman even didn't know that the Oil Company of Indiana belonged to him and he had forgotten that the Water-Pierce Oil Company of Texas was his property. Now when a man overlooks such small details as two concerns capitalized at over $20,000,000, he had better get out of business, and let the fellow run it who runs it right now.
Then there are still other doubting Thomases who don't believe that the profits of the Standard are quite as big as stated above, and again we call on Mr. Rockefeller to testify in our behalf. Some years ago Frank Monnett, the attorney-general of Ohio, brought "ouster proceedings" against the Standard. He proved by expert testimony that it only cost one cent to manufacture a gallon of coal oil or gasoline. This got Rockefeller excited, and he asked to be put on the stand once more, where he swore that it was a lie, a lie, a horrible lie, that it cost two cents.
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