Its time to pluck the feathers and boil the tar, someone get a goodly supply of rails also!
I'll donate the pines and split them into nice sharp-cornered, splintery rails if someone will see to it that they are transported to WI -- AND that they are used appropriately.*
*("Appropriately" = lots of bounce in the step of those shouldering the springy rails...)
You hit the remedy. Tar and feathers works. That is what the people used to do to scoundrels.