We're both staggering under money, as it is.

But power! Ah, that's different!" "I know," admitted Waldron.

"But ought we--you--to attempt this, even for the sake of universal power?
Your plan contemplates a monopoly such that everybody who refused or was unable to buy your product would, at best, have to get along with vitiated air, and at worst would have to stifle.

Do you really think we ought to undertake this ?" Keenly he eyed Flint, as he thus sounded the elder man's inhuman determination.

Flint, fathoming nothing of his purpose, retorted with some heat: "Ha! Getting punctilious, all at once, are you?
Talk ethics, eh?
Where were your scruples, a year ago, when people were paying 25 cents a loaf for bread, because of that big wheat pool you put through?
How about the oil you've just lately helped me boost by a 20 per cent.