If you are to be given two or three for one for that, and three-fourths of the remainder in the treasury, I for one want nothing to do with the deal.

You would be in control of the company, and it will be water-logged, at that.
Talk about getting something for nothing! The best I would suggest to the stockholders of the old companies would be half and half.

And I may say to you frankly, although you may not believe it, that the old companies will not join in with you in any scheme that gives you control.

They are too much incensed.

Feeling is running too high.