Through a long experience with corruption the Cabinet has grown so greedy that Cowdray hasn't the money necessary to reach their price." "Ah," said Mr.Bryan, triumphantly, accepting Sir William's bantering answer as made in all seriousness.

"Then you admit the charge." From this he proceeded to denounce Great Britain in still more unmeasured terms.

The British, he declared, had only one interest in Mexico, and that was oil.

The Foreign Office had simply handed its Mexican policy over to the "oil barons" for predatory purposes.
"That's just what the Standard Oil people told me in New York," the British diplomat replied.

"Mr.Secretary, you are talking just like a Standard Oil man.