Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-13
oBJEozs 70 PRIZE 1eHT1Ea
A Miner Correspondent Has somstsaing 70
say About the Matter.

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Say About the Matter.
BUTTE CIrY, July 10. 1889.
Mr.. Editor: I have been waiting . Ions
time but waiting in vain. for one Of our pa
pers to raise It's voice in behalf Of the bet
ter element Of our city and denounce that
most degrading and brutal OF all occupa'
ti6ns. prize fighting, which seems to be
fourishinghere to an extent which is simp-
u disgracsful and disgusting to every lover
OF Law and decency. Scarcely q week passes
in which does not occur o or more oi
these exhibitions Of the so-called manly"
art, and whenever q couple OF these poor.
degraded apologies for true. me do stand
MP and bruise and beat zach other like q
couple OF savage beasts, the papers, instead
Of denouncing the exhibition OF brutality,
or else ignoring it entirely, fill all their
available space with graphic descriptions
of all the disgusting and s~ickening details
and fairly make their readers sick with
their attention to every little incident con-
nected with such s~pectacles. / believe in
physical as well as mental culture and am
an ardent admirer of every true, manly
sport, but what benefit is to be gained by
allowing men to make savage andferocious
brl1tes OF themselves is more than lean see,
besides the results Of these innumerable
prize fights with which o lair city has re-
Gently been cursed cannot help but be most
pernicious. They have q depraving and
degenerating effect upon the young
who are tsught to believe that such
things are manly and noble because OF the
liberal manner in which they are patron
lied by their olders. Aside from this, Butte
is fast gaining an uIeviable reputation
abroad as the home and haven OF rUughs
and bruisers OF all kinds, and that too not
without some shadow OF justice, for it can
not be denied that to-day the city contains
many 81 these barnacles and outcasts who,
have been rup out Of other cities and came
here. well kaOwing that theywould not be
interfered, With and would be safe to do as
they pleased. Ask any OF our police Off
GERS and they will tell you that the city
contains any number Of these psuedo ''pro-
lessons, and champions" who in the main
make their living, like nearly all such men
do, of the shame and disgrace OF some
poor fallen female who has sunk to the
very depths Of sin and degradation. What
good are such men to any community?
Can you or any one else answer?
Butte has outlived the day when it could
be called d mere mining camp, and the
world should b. allowed to know this
We are now a city, a community of re-
fined, ~peaceable. law.loving and law-abid-
ing men and women, and it is a stain
upon our good names to longer
such exhibitions 81 have
to flourish. There is q law
against prize fighting, and'it is to the dis.
grace OF our authorities that it is not en-.
No city in the union OF any size
p~retensions any longer allows such
peopleto find q harbor with it's limits,
and Butte cannot afford to remain be-
II, as our people say, they really
want Butte to become a prosperous, we'll
behaved and respected city, they should
see that it is forever rid OF prize fighters
and prize fighting, neither are any
benefit and neither q credit to any
town. In the name Of decency, law n
order let them be suppressed. for the time
10 at hand to do 30.
LOVER Oh DEcENCY.