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was unnecessary to carry out the threat of proceeding 

 against every delinquent railway agent in the Terri- 

 tories ; for the delinquencies were no longer deliberate. 

 The book in which by turn the orders for cars were 

 listed began to be a more honest record of precedence 

 in distribution, as all good car-order books should be. 

 : For the railway authorities were men of wide expert 

 I ence and ability, who knew when they were defeated 

 f and how to accept such defeat gracefully. It meant 

 merely that the time had come to recognize the fact 

 that there was a man inside the soil-grimed shirt. The 

 farmer had won his spurs. While the railway people 

 did not like the action of the Association in hauling 

 them into court, in all fairness they were ready to 

 admit that they had received full warning before such 

 drastic action was taken. 



If the railway officials began to regard the farmer in 

 a new light, the latter on his part began to appreciate^ 

 somewhat more fulj^^he^a^sk_wMchL faced these ener- 

 getic men in successfully handling the giant organiza- 

 tion ^ Jtojwhich^ tile 

 tilt, therefore, instead of the leaders of the grain 

 growers and the railway looking at each other with 

 less friendly eyes, their relations became more kindly 

 as each began to entertain for the other a greater 

 respect. 



Best of all, applications were beginning to pour in 

 upon the Secretary of the Territorial Grain Growers' 

 Association gpjVhYfltjnna fmm fnrmrrff nvpryvrl'iPiv for 

 admissioj to fllA ^ganiPia* 1 ' 1 Skeptics who had been 

 holding out now enrolled with their local association 

 and, as fast as they could be handled, new locals were 

 being formed. 



