Governor Durbin, of Indiana, accurately defined the situation in a recent speech, in which he said:— No government can endure with the court and the mob seeking to exercise identical functions. Either the supremacy of the law must be established beyond question, or free rein must be given to the fury of riotous assemblages engaged in trampling all law into the dust. Anarchy and constitutional government may not thrive within the same geographical limits. We must ultimately altogether give up the one or the other. If guilty men are to be hanged or burned by “good citizens” to-day under the summary procedure of brute force, then innocent men may be hanged or burned to-morrow by bad citizens operating under the same warrant, because brute force is no respecter of persons or principles, and may as readily be invoked in a bad cause as in a good one. If the mob spirit is to become the national spirit, being contagious, it must either be stamped out or its ultimate supremacy conceded. Then the next step in our political development will be the sway of that dictator who proves himself to be the best leader of mobs.