The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-05-28
PLAN TO END FEUDS.
General Towards Efforts to
Solve the Problem.
EDUCATION IS his AETIDoTE.

I Railroads Chief Agents In stamp
ing out the wars between Ken
tucIxy's Mountaineers, Says the yet-
eran soldier.
General o. o. Howard Of Bell coun-
~, Ky, who has undertaken to put
stop to feuds in Kentucky and has
been riding on horseback through the
feud counties, accompanied by Fred
ieriek G. Chamberlain of Boston, ridi-
cuIes the idea Of being shot by mis-
take while on his tour Of inyestiga-
ton, says a special dispatch from Lex
ington to the New York Herald. He
says the feudist seldom makes mis-
take; that when he sights down the
barrel CT his rifle he usually knows
who the gun is pointed at.
sThere is no danger Of any noun
tain man pointing a gun at Uncle oil
ver," he said recently. My solution
Of the feud problem, eliminating all
else, is education. OF course, this is
impossible in many sections of the
state except with time and the adj
gancement OF civilization.
General Howard and Mr. Chamber
lain started on their tour few days
ago, leaving the railroad at Echutaw,
Lee county. It was in the Grant-Lee
Memorial hall of Lincoln Memorial
university, near Cumberland Gap,
Tenn, that General Howard was seen
while attending a meeting Of the board
! Of trustees of that institution.
General Howard is a firm friend Of
the mountain people. He made posi-
| bic the Lincoln Memorial university,
ana his wisdom has been proved by
the score of young men and women
who have been educated and have
gone out from the university into q
| life OF usefulness.
"The advancement, Of civilization
and education" said General Howard,
twill stamp out feuds, but such ad-
vancement is, of course, slow to find
its way into the log cabins Of the
mountains, and / am going to see II 1
cannot help these people out Of their
trouble BY acting as an advance agent
to education
"a feud ii a sort of vigilance COM
nittee such as is known to many sec
lions In tile United States. The Off
GERS 81 the law are inactive and cow
ardly. IL d man commits some crime
that deserves punishment they fail,
either from eowardice or Iaziness, to
bring the offender to justice, and the
/ persons who felt that they had been in
| iured. finding that they have no safe
guard IN the law, resort to assassina-
ton. or, taking the law into their own
hands, they are seized with desire
to lnete ont justice without the aid Of
the law.
aYet there is nothing either north
west, east OF south that IL the parallel
Of the Kentucky feuds Wherever
Ia / advocate to the people the neces
sity 1T good roads. The absence Of not
, only railroads, but Of turnpikes. O
even good country roads, is one Of tht
chief barriers to the advancement O
. education iii these feud localities.
while 1t Is true that the recon
| feud assassinations in Breathitt county
where learned thirty-seven mel
: had been slain from ambush within
: the last FIVE years have been mos
! furious iii the town Of Jackson. which
J ii entered by two railroads and stu
! ated on river nayigable By small
] boats, it IS a fact nevertheless tina
! this feud originated in the most re
9 mote part of the county, long befor
e the mountains were trayersed by
railroad and when Jackson wa
|, smaller than Handman or Hazard
Travelling through these sections 9
b the country, one Is forced to go o
q horseback, and for myself have q
. WAYS rode Il mule, because be il I'll
/ more sure footed beast. BY the builc
/ inc OF railroads and highways ~
q people are brought closer together an
e the public school system is made POI
Q sible."
/ General Howard said he noticed thf
e the attitude of the people had change
i decidedly within the last few year
d and he never expected to witness
T Kentucky another feud like u
French Eyersole, the srong-Amy, Il
= Hill-Evans or the Baker-Howard.
"The turnpikes, the railroads an
tile country school three agents
4 the advance Of civilization" said z
general. fare now making their a
pearance lii all parts Of the state.
& ID true. the Baker, Howard feud occ
pied the center Of the stage in publ
notice only three years ago, but sin
4 then Clay county has been crossed
several lines Of telephone and 7
schools have been greatly improve
4 Spectators i'll oil and minerals ha
planted their machinery on the hi
sides.
.sThe Breathitt county feud IS t
climax, reached after years Of polite
= strife, and Is unlike Ia character q
Of the other feuds In the history
Kentucky. The spirit OF hatred eaus
y by the civil war between tile stron
and the Amys resulted in long 4
bitter feud between their families q
was handed down To the second 81
- Grafton. but | do not believe the Pr
porous town OF Jackson will know
d feud save In history after the Pr
ont bitter strife ceases.