"He was up in the city the whole of the time the new schedule was being drawn, and he and Ulsteen and the Railroad Commission were as thick as thieves.

He has been up there all this last week, too, doing the railroad's dirty work, and backing Ulsteen up.
'Legitimate profit, legitimate profit,'" he broke out.

"Can we raise wheat at a legitimate profit with a tariff of four dollars a ton for moving it two hundred miles to tide-water, with wheat at eighty-seven cents?
Why not hold us up with a gun in our faces, and say, 'hands up,' and be done with it ?" He dug his boot-heel into the ground and turned away to the house abruptly, cursing beneath his breath.
"By the way," Presley called after him, "Hooven wants to see you.

He asked me about this idea of the Governor's of getting along without the tenants this year.

Hooven wants to stay to tend the ditch and look after the stock.