All the more reason why we must hit them at once, and hit hard! These reports here," and he gestured at the papers that Brevard had spread out under the lamp-light, "prove that, at the proper signal, every chance indicates that we can paralyze transportation--the keynote of the whole situation.
"True, the government--that is to say, the Air Trust, and _that_ is to say, Flint and Waldron--can keep men in every engine-cab in the country.
They can keep them at every switch and junction.

But this isn't France, remember, nor is it any small, compact European country.

Conditions are wholly different here.

Everywhere, vast stretches of track exist.

No power on earth--not even Flint and Waldron's--can guard all those hundreds of thousands of miles.