"It must be remembered that the sovereign State of Oklahoma permitted the Osage outrages go unpunished. Sheriffs investigated and did nothing. State's Attorneys investigated and did nothing. The Attorney-General investigated and did nothing. It was only when the Government sent Department of Justice Agents into the Osage country that law became a thing of majesty instead of a butt of travesty."

           ​​​​​​​-St.Louis Post Dispatch, Nov. 4, 1926