Show FIGHTING BLOOD LOOD OF 01 KENTUCKY Louisville Louls Journal Courier Why hy Is IsIt isIt isit It that we have havo always alays fought our po political political political po- po battles so savagely and In our civil ci contentions arc are often orten so relentless relentless relent relent- less one ono toward another In that Scotch-Irish Scotch crucible did lid a drop of the Corsican get gel by chance Interfused with the blood of or the tho Gascon and the Saxon Saxone We e are aro not a malignant peo pic Our anger Is quick to cool Yet it Is true we draw our party lines as asif asif if Jf the they were lines of battle batlle and have done so from the first though after the direct conflict of them theta all when party lines were vere actual lines of or battle we wc were first to know the lie war wal was eu ended led Ma May it not be that In many ways ays i wo o are alo merely up grown children who make more noise and worse faces than we in Iii reality mean A bit of humbug and buncombe goes a long tong longvay longway way vay wa with us but bul most of or us are readier readIer read read- ier lee to forgive than to fight and we feel reel real sorry when something goes seriously wrong As s a mountain-man mountain on once e said V the use uso 0 o killing When hen hes he's dead ho dont don't knowl What a good thing It would be If Jr one Could slay his adversary and bring him safely to life again so that he could and would know They who toll teU ugly stories about us us dont don't know us Even en the lie feudists are arc not as bad as they have hue been painted and anI the la last t of them seem about to depart foreve for for- eve ever i Take that aspect of Kentucky life lICe and consider how it has been exaggerate exaggerated ate atod and misconceived The rho vendetta of or which we ve hear so much and see so little has had an un over but a scant cant area alca and that far from Crom busy bus haunts and ways Impervious to the outer oute world However bloody and extern cx- cx tern terminate nate they were for fOl the most part but family and neighborhood broils brois Nor did any of them have political orl origination or significance There were yet et in Kentucky at the close pf f flie lie Iho sectional war regions as isolated and Inaccessible as any district of France Franco In iii the middle ages Remote untutored keenly Individualized the tho deadly weapon was the tho only arbiter They knew no law lai except tho the law of or force As the lie receded before before be he- fore the share plow did these children of oC nature recede before the railway There Is no section of Kentucky today where life lire Is not entirely safe Ce and there thero never nevet has been any section or oran any an time when property properly was not Killing indeed has alwa always been cheaper In iii Kentucky than stealing |