Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-30
Feuds and Their Treatment.

The situation at Jackson, KY, could
scarcely be more deplorable State troops,
| with their guns loaded and under instruc-
lions to fire If provoked. guard the jail, the
| witness box, the jury-box, and the bench.
| They are present under due forms OF law
| The presiding judge testified to the neces-
| sity, and the governor Of the state, upon
| his request, took the desired action. JUS
| tice, we are told, can only be hoped for
under the protection of the military. But
the military will be withdrawn after the
trial is over. And then what? Will the wit
| nesses be secure in their lives? VIII the
jurymen. who, although summoned from
an adjoining county. will be within easy
reach of any adventurous outthroats, be
safe at home? VIII the judge who con-
fessed his helplessness to the governor be
the stronger for having discharged plain
duty? Who will answer these questions i'll
the affirmative? Who with the slightest
| knowledge of feudst life, and a slight &C
auaintance with the Kentucky mountatneer,
| but fears that the subsequent situation
will for time be worse than the one now
existing?
| Meanwhile here is little story from
Cleveland, Ohio, which but for the gravity
of the subject would provoke smile:
Preparations are on foot in the Saliva
ton Army corps of this city to equip
twenty of its members for a tour through
West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and a
part of Pennsylvania, paying particular at
tention to those sections in which murder
Gus feuds exist. Col. Holtz of this city is
to be in command. The men and women
are to be mounted and will proceed slowly
through the country, carrying the 5eeGS OF
brotherly love and trying to plant them.
A former confederate soldier of consid-
cradle wealth has announced his willing
to defraY the expense of the eXDedt-
tion."
The Salvation Army does some excellent
work, and it's methods are singularly we'll
suited to lifting up the lowly and the down
hearted But it has no message for those
fierce men who inhabit the Kentucky and
the Tennessee mountains. The lads" and
| the "lassies' will not be harmed. They
will make their journey in safety. They
| will even be Hospitality entertained. They
will be helped at table to full portion of
| the fat meat, the cabbage and the pot
| liquor. But the little cavalcade will mako
| about as much impression the character
| of the people as would peas fired against
| the side of a brick house, and will leave
| such memory as the little shows do which
now and then penetrate those Businesses.
The real remedy? Who shall say? The
| evil for years has puzzled and tried the
| patience of many able and resourceful men.
1t has not gone on unchallenged in Ken
| lucky. The state authorities, whether dem
| ocratic or republican, have always re-
| sponded to efforts to eradicate 1t, and are
! still responding. But it is a case where
time must cut powerful figure. And time
is telling. Bad as matters now are, they
are not as bad as they were few years
ago. For one thing the industry of the
feudists has lessened their number, and,
| for another thing. the country is opening
up. though slowly, to settlement