This seemed the moment.

"You don't suppose--you don't think perhaps the war will be stopped or anything, just as I get over there ?" Sharon laboured with a choice bit of sarcasm.
"No, I guess it'll take more'n you to stop it, even with that Elihu Titus going along.

Of course, some spy may get the news to 'em that you've started, and they may say, 'Why keep up the struggle if this Cowan boy's goin' in against us ?' But my guess is they'll brazen it out for a month or so longer.

Of course they'll be scared stiff." Wilbur grinned at him, then spoke gravely.
"You know what I mean--Merle.

He says the plain people will never allow this war to go on, because they've been tricked into it by Wall Street or something.