They have already taken the steps to see to it.

Its respectable and law-abiding people, comprising 99 per cent of the population, will see to that. Omaha henceforth will be as safe for its citizens, and as safe for the visitors within its gates, as any city in the land. They encouraged if they did not aid the wolf-pack that was conspiring to put down the rule of law in Omaha-that rule which is the sole protection for every man's home and family. Some of them, to their blighting shame be it said, respectable men with women and children in their homes, let themselves be swept away by the mob spirit. Ten thousand or more good citizens, without leadership, without organization, without public authority that had made an effort to organize them for the anticipated emergency, were obliged to stand as onlookers, shamed in their hearts, and witness the hideous orgy of lawlessness. It was provided by a few hundred hoodlums, most of them mere boys, organized as the wolf-pack is organized, inflamed by the spirit of anarchy and license, of plunder and destruction. The lack of efficient government in Omaha, the lack of governmental foresight and sagacity and energy, made the exhibition possible. Omaha Sunday was disgraced and humiliated by a monstrous object lesson of what jungle rule means. Under the rule of law protection is provided for all these, and provided in proportion as law is efficiently and honestly administered and its power and authority respected and obeyed. Under jungle rule no man's life is safe, no man's wife, no man's mother, sister, children, home, liberty, rights, property. There is the rule of the jungle in this world, and there is the rule of law.

The law of the jungle poem