:25:01
The Inquirer's campaign against
the Public Transit Company.
:25:04
Do you know anything
we can use against them?
:25:07
You're still the college boy, eh?
:25:08
I was expelled from college, a lot
of colleges, you remember? I remember.
:25:13
I think I should remind you of a fact
you have forgotten.
:25:16
You're one of the largest stockholders
in the Public Transit Company.
:25:20
The trouble is, you don't realize
you're talking to two people.
:25:23
As Charles Foster Kane
who owns 82,364 shares...
:25:26
...of Public Transit Preferred. See,
I do have a general idea of my holdings.
:25:30
I sympathize with you.
Kane is a scoundrel...
:25:33
...his paper should be closed,
a committee formed to boycott him.
:25:36
If you can form such a committee,
put me down for a contribution of $1,000.
:25:40
On the other hand,
I am the publisher of the Inquirer.
:25:43
As such it's my duty, I'll let you in
on a little secret. It is also my pleasure...
:25:47
...to see that the working people of this
community aren't robbed by a pack...
:25:52
...of money-mad pirates, just because...
:25:55
...they have no one
to look after their interests.
:25:58
I'll let you in on another little secret,
Mr.Thatcher:
:26:01
I think I'm the man to do it.
You see, I have money and property.
:26:05
If I don't look after the interests
of the underprivileged, somebody else will.
:26:09
Maybe somebody
without money or property.
:26:11
That would be too bad.
:26:13
I saw your financial statement today.
:26:15
- Oh, did you?
- Tell me, honestly...
:26:18
...don't you think it's rather unwise
to continue this philanthropic enterprise...
:26:22
...this Inquirer, that is costing you
$1 million a year?
:26:26
Yes. I did lose $1 million last year.
I expect to lose $1 million this year.
:26:30
I expect to lose $1 million next year.
:26:33
At the rate of $1 million a year...
:26:36
...I'll have to close this place in 60 years.
:26:49
"With respect to the said newspapers...
:26:51
"...the said Charles Foster Kane...
:26:54
"...hereby relinquishes all control thereof...
:26:58
"...and of the syndicates
pertaining thereto...