“Why, it is a question of my home. Am I to be turned out? Why, I have put eight thousand dollars into improving this land.”
“And I six thousand, and now that I have, the Railroad grabs it.”
“And the system of irrigating ditches that Derrick and I have been laying out. There's thousands of dollars in that!”
“I'll fight this out till I've spent every cent of my money.”
“Where? In the courts that the company owns?”
“Think I am going to give in to this? Think I am to get off my land? By God, gentlemen, law or no law, railroad or no railroad, I—WILL—NOT.”
“Nor I.”
“Nor I.”
“Nor I.”
“This is the last. Legal means first; if those fail—the shotgun.”