"You mean you have obtained all the consents necessary?"
"I mean that we will waste no more words on this matter. The advertisements you can convince me are right you may have inserted in the papers, and no one will say a word publicly or otherwise. Neither William Rockefeller, his son, Stillman, the Bank nor any officer or director of the Amalgamated Company will talk until after the subscriptions have been closed and the allotments made; not oneword but what you say or print will be uttered. Can you ask anything more than that?"
"Not a thing more."
I then laid out the rough copies of what afterward appeared in the papers throughout the country (reproduced on pages 336 and 338).