President Thomas's little joke. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with at center a group of six men, among them John D. Rockefeller and EB Thomas, warming themselves by a stove labeled Standard Oil; the vignette at bottom left shows Andrew Carnegie burning US Steel Bonds and Charles Schwab attempting to burn Steel Common stocks, on the right is Chauncey Depew burning speeches; on the middle left is a tramp resting against a haystack in the warm sun, on the right is William Jennings Bryan generating hot air while speaking to a group of farmers; and on the top left is a family burning the furniture in a fireplace, and on the right is EB Thomas sitting in front of a fireplace where a lump of Radium is warming the room. Date 1904 June 22. President Thomas's little joke. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with at center a group of six men, among them John D. Rockefeller and EB Thomas, warming themselves by a stove labeled Standard Oil; the vignette at bottom left shows Andrew Carnegie burning US Steel Bonds and Charles Schwab attempting to burn Steel Common stocks, on the right is Chauncey Depew burning speeches; on the middle left is a tramp resting against a haystack in the warm sun, on the right is William Jennings Bryan generating hot air while speaking to a group of farmers; and on the top left is a family burning the furniture in a fireplace, and on the right is EB Thomas sitting in front of a fireplace where a lump of Radium is warming the room. Date 1904 June 22.