Hasn't the State Board of Arbitration declared itself powerless?
We have no hold upon the strikers; and we're so used to being snubbed and disobliged by common carriers that we have forgotten our hold on the roads and always allow them to manage their own affairs in their own way, quite as if we had nothing to do with them and they owed us no services in return for their privileges." "That's a good deal so," said Fulkerson, disordering his hair.

"Well, it's nuts for the colonel nowadays.

He says if he was boss of this town he would seize the roads on behalf of the people, and man 'em with policemen, and run 'em till the managers had come to terms with the strikers; and he'd do that every time there was a strike." "Doesn't that rather savor of the paternalism he condemned in Lindau ?" asked March.
"I don't know.

It savors of horse sense." "You are pretty far gone, Fulkerson.

I thought you were the most engaged man I ever saw; but I guess you're more father-in-lawed.