The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-06
A Malicious Accusation.

Speaking Of the Sullivan-Kilrain prize
fight, which is expected TO take place next
Monday, the New York Tribune says:
Two professional bruisers have made their
arrangements to pound each other for
money and notoriety some day next week.
They dare not try TO have the brutal per-
Torrance take place in any northern state,
FOR thsy realize that the authorities, backed
by public sentiment, would take effective
measures to prevent it. Accordingly, they
purpose fighting in Louisiana"
This is 60 conspicuously unjust to the
south that any fair-minded man who reads
il can hardly fail TO feel that it is so. The
professional brulsersn and their hackers
are from the north, one of them being from
Boston. The south is not the nursery Of
prize fighters, nor of brutal characters Of
any kind. Prize fighters, secret assassins,
and those who take life with dynamite,
make their homes in northern, not in south
ern, cities Brutality in It's worst fJrms Is
seen in the north.
No papers like the Police Gazette are
published south of Mason and Dixons line.
They are published where they find their
patrons They do more to brutalize the
natures Of their readers than any other
thing, and yet the Tribune has nothing 70
say against them.
Would public sentiment in New Y ork be
against permitting the Sullivan-Kilrain
fight from taking place in the vicinity of
that city. 1t is doubtful if it would. the
greater part of the male portion Of the
population would go to see the fight if it
had the opportunity to do 50.
Prize fights take place in or near New
York city every onoe-in-a-while. They
are not such notorious affairs as this of
Sullivan aud Kilrain, but they are just as
brutal. They are kept quiet until they are
over, but the authorities do not seem to
exert themselves TO find and punish the
principals.
Louisiana does not happen to have law
against prize-fghting because that offense
is almost unknown among her people
1t is, therefore, an outrage upon decency
and common sense to charge her people
with encouraging a brutal exhibition that,
according to the Tribune, would not be
permitted In any northern state. There
might be a little ground for the charge if
the participants IN the exhibition were her
own people, but when the professional
bruisers and the hackers are from the north
there is not the slightest excuse for assert
ing that public sentiment in the south en-
courages exhibitions of brutality which
public sentiment in the north condemns
The governor Of Louisiana is doing every
thing he can to prevent the Sullivan-Kil-
rain fight from tax ng place in that state.
BE may not succeed, because there are iso-
lated places which can be reached easily,
and where the fight can be decided before
the authorities can be notified, but it is GER
tain that he will exert himself to greater
extent to prevent the brutal exhibition than
the governor of New York did to enforce
the law Of New York which provides for
the arrest and detention of any one known
to be about to leave that state to engage in
a prize fight. Sullivan was trained in Now
York for the coming fight. Why doesn't
the Tribune attack the authorities of its
own state for permitting Sullivan to leave
that state to engage in a prize fight