The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-15

| The country has in all probability wit
| messed the ending which was certain
| sooner or later to be reached of the eff
| fort to control the government of Ken
| tueky by resort to force. 1t would In
| volve national scandal should our high
est court decide to inject federal author
| fly into the controversy after all EFFORTS
| to secure executive Intervention have
f! failed
The appearance of the Kentucky noun
taineer as a factor in the tragic situa-
| ton has been one of its most picturesque
| features Your Southern mountaineer
| Is an American of the Americans. He
generally comes from straight REVOLT
/ tionary stock on both sides of the house
His grandfather or great grandfather
will probably have been found to have
campaigned with Daniel Boone or George
| Rogers Clark or one or other of the
mighty warriors and huntsmen who
put their backs to the Alleghenies and
blazed out through their narrow bore RI
hes the pathway of American progress
| and empire in the West.
| These men have lived in the isolation
| of the mountains for generations They
have not felt the touch of modern prog
ress and their standards of right
| are those which prevailed in mems
I dealings with each other nigh century
ago. That it was possible to bring
down from the mountain recesses such
! a body of men as appeared in Frank
fort at the opening of the legislature
! and stacked their arms in. the capttol
| grounds sending their message Of warn
ing and defiance to the authority Of the
| state ITSELF Is far from proving fhat
i'these men are mere assassins, suchs for
| instance. as might take control OF a
| frontier mining town. They are men as
| reckless of personal harm as these, but
they fight for what they conceive to be
a point of honor, and their sense of per-
| sonal loyalty is generally found to un-
| derhe their readiness to talk through the
muzzles of their guns.
Not these men, but those who palter to.
| their mediaeval love Of strife and blood
| shed, It is who should be holden reSponz
| sfble for the lawIessness which found
I such disgraceful expression throughout
| the recent political controversy in Ken
| lucky Men in high social and political
| position, who live and move IN complete
/ touch with the progress of their time,
1 Nd acft
/ tions of the state they are citizens Of.
/ who in word represent in their actfv4S
/ ties the underlying principle of SOCIAL
order, feel that in the pursuit Of Office.
| they can stand Idle and silent while
/ their confederates Rlan murder, bribery
| and perjury-these men it is whose lives
| Must be re-ordered If the South is. to Sc
| cure the position which the genius, of It's
/ people and its own magnificent RESOURCES
enttile 1t to.
| It will matter very little to the moral
! sentiment of the country that the rnulat-
| to- Combs, if he is shown to have fired
| the fatal shot at Goebel, shall suffer the
| penalty of the law. 1t will not matter,
| even, if every one of the so-called "feud-
! lists" who were brought in from the
mountains to shay shall offer their lives
| in token of their crimes. 1t is not these,
men, but those who filed their hearts
with murder whom the people expect to
see made to suffer AS long as It Is
| possible to find men in such positions, as
they have occupied in the various COM
munities' in which they live the abettors
! OF murder and lawlessness, Kentucky
will continue ito find that the social prob
| lem which confFqnts her is not how She
| shall hold the brute beast in the African
nature under foot, or stay the hand of
the feudist who shoots from ambush or
! put an end to the Illicit manufacture of
whisky. 1t will be, rather, how to re-
store among her people the exalted con-
ceptions of public duty which through
out the entire history OF the country
found such beautiful expression among
the men who pursued public walks of
life in the South, how the influence Of
personal honor can be restored to its
old-tirne ascendancy among men who are
daily influencing the current of events,
and how the redeeming and Christening
Influences of religion and the humanities
can be made most closely and generally
| felt in the homes and the hearts of these
| of her people who are living in the light
of modern civilization and culture
MIVART AND HIS CHURCH. '''' =
Read in the light of his sudden death,