At that
time the evil of sending out as inspectors men admirably trained in
theory but woefully lacking in practice and the knowledge of Western
humankind was one of the great menaces to effective personnel.
Fortunately this particular report came into the hands of the Chief, who
happened to be touring in the West. A fuller investigation exposed to
the sapient experience of that able man the gullibility of the
inspector. From the district a brief statement was issued upholding the
local administration.
The agitation, thus deprived of its chief hope, might very well have
been expected to simmer down, to die away slowly. As a matter of fact,
it collapsed. The newspaper attacks ceased; the public meetings were
discontinued; the saloons and other storm centres applied their powers
to a discussion of the Gans-Nelson fight. Samuels was very briefly
declared a trespasser by the courts. Erbe disappeared from the case.
The United States Marshal, riding up with a posse into a supposedly
hostile country, found no opposition to his enforcement of the court's
decree. Only old Samuels himself offered an undaunted defence, but was
soon dislodged and led away by men who half-pitied, half-ridiculed his
violence.
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