Now to a man up a tree, it looks that the difference between two cents and ten or twenty cents leaves a fairly good margin.
I realize that a hundred million dollars isn't very much money nowadays. I found that out in my own experience. At the present price of meat and flour, vegetables and house rent, a hundred million dollars doesn't go very far, and if it were anybody but Rockefeller, I'd say let's give him more; but fortunately the old gentleman lost his stomach: chasing dollars, and he can't eat anything richer than crackers or drink anything stronger than skimmed milk. A hundred million dollars will buy him a rocky mountain range of crackers and an ocean of skimmed milk. All the Rockies of the future never will be able to eat all the crackers or drink all the skimmed milk that the hundred million dollars will buy, and there will be a little money left over for monkey dinners, dog parties, cat weddings, butterfly balls and diamond dog collars and all such other necessities of life as our rich folks must have nowadays.
As to the Means of Transportation.
The transportation trust ought to be taken over by the people also. The railroads carry the products of the field from the farms to the city and the products of the factory from the city to the country. Now, let us suppose there is a river. On one side of the river are all the people who make food stuff and raw material. On the other side are the people who make shoes, clothing, furniture, books and cottage organs. The people on one side of the river, who make clothing and furniture, cannot live without food and those on the other side of the river, who raise food, cannot live without clothing and furniture.
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