Gen. Robert E. Lee, just after the Civil War, was offered $50,000 per year by one of these very companies. He refused to sell the use of his name. He was a poor man, and went to teaching school for a living. In this quiet, modest, but noble way “the greatest soldier that the Anglo-Saxon race ever produced” (see Theodore Roosevelt’s “Life of Thomas H. Benton”) was supporting his family at the time of his death. Mr. Cleveland is not a poor man. His income is $5,000 per year, over and above what silly magazines pay him for occasional articles which are valueless. Therefore Mr. Cleveland need not have sold his name to the life insurance rascals. But the $12,000 tempted him, and he sold out. (3) Dryden’s Prudential was investigated and very rotten it was shown to be. (4) No. He is simply stealing the money. Calling it “salary” does not keep it from being loot. * * * * * CHICAGO, Feb. 7, 1906. _Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga._ DEAR SIR: Will you please give me the information as set forth in the following questions? (1) How many years must an alien live in this country before he can take out his final papers? (2) Can an alien, on declaring his intentions to become an American citizen, exercise the voting franchise before getting final papers? (3) I have been nine years in this country and never bothered about taking out my papers as a citizen. If I were to declare my intentions of becoming a citizen now, how long would it be before I could exercise the vote franchise? Thanking you in anticipation of an early answer, I remain, Yours respectfully, ⸺ ⸺. ANSWER