I remember calling upon Mr.Thaw, the vice-president of the Fort Wayne, and telling him we must have our money.

He replied: "You ought to have your money, but we are not paying anything these days that is not protestable." "Very good," I said, "your freight bills are in that category and we shall follow your excellent example.

Now I am going to order that we do not pay you one dollar for freight." "Well, if you do that," he said, "we will stop your freight." I said we would risk that.

The railway company could not proceed to that extremity.

And as a matter of fact we ran for some time without paying the freight bills.