St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-25
Newspapers Generally Ap-
prove Of the Stoppage Of
the Prize Fight.
The Chicago Tribune Delivers
Itself Of a Particularly
Hot Roast.
A Hint From the Milwaukee
Sentinel That Climate
Affects Us.
Pungent Paragraphs in Re-
gard to the Fiasco From
"a Many Newspapers.


| interest of decency that the respectable
| law-and-order people of ST. Paul have
brought such pressure to bear upon
the governor that at last he has forbid
den the Hall-Fitzsimmons prize fight
to take place in that city, and that it is
now freed from the crowds of toughS
and roughs which had congregated
there to see it. The outcome shows
what public sentiment can do when it is
fairly aroused, for no thanks are due to
the authorities. The mayor of the city
opposed the sheriff, the sheriff leaned
against the governor, and it was only
when the governor found that he had
nothing to lean against but crowd of
toughs that he did his duty. Even then
it is doubtful whether he would have
done it had not the people prepared
themselves to stop the fight, even if it
had to be done by armed force.
The Athletic Club of st. Paul is now
whining about the money it has spent
in getting ready for the fight, but this
Will not create any sympathy for it. If
it has no higher ideas of the functions
of an athletic club than to invite two
bruteS to pommel and maui each other
for the delectation of al unsavOry
crowd, of loafers, vagabOnds, gamblers
and tOughS who never did an honest
days work in their worthless lives.
then it is time Tor the club to diSband
and retire from business as public
nuisance. The action of the mayor in
the premises was contemplate. His
declaration that the prize fight was Ill
the hands of "a high class of business
men" was an Insult to all respectable
business men. His plea that it would
draw business to st. Paul and add to
the profits of tradeSpeople is too absurd
for serious consideration, and shows the
low standard of his ideas. If the con-
gregation of several hundred gamblers
and rOughS, whose money would be
principally spent in betting and in gin
mills, were TO be set up as an evidence
of business prOSperlty$ln st. Paul, 1t
would not be long before every respec-
table business man IL the country
would give that city the go-by and
leave it to the patronage of these t0ughS,
with whom the mayor seems to affiliate.
1t is fortunate that there were law
abiding and respectable citizens enough
in st. Paul to break up the debasing
and disreputable business, and the Chi
cagO Tribune congratulates them upon
their success in saving the capital Of
the state from the disgrace which the
so-called athletic club sought to inhict
upon it by importing these two bruisers
to maui and pound each other for gate
money. The roughS and tOughS will
hereafter give st. Paul a wide berth.
The people should improve the victory
they have gained by demanding of the
legislature that it shall pass laws
which will in the future prevent the
possibility of such dOg-ight exhibitions,
whether they are to take place under
the auspices of the alleged athletic
clubs or are managed by the brutes
themselves and their hackers. They
are a disgrace TO civilization, and the
lawmakers Of Minnesota should see to
/ it, that the laws bearing upon that sub
ject are strong enough 10 hold up the
weakest-kneed of governors and Sher-
ifs in tuture.-Chicago Tribune
n II
There is certainly relation between
temperature and pugnacity. The higher
the temperature, the quicker man is
to bang somebody for anything or for
nothing. In December st. Paul man
could not be induced to fight any more
than New Orleans man could be re-
strained from fighting in July. TO live
i'll a tropical region is to have riotous
blood. Ordinarily, man who lives as
far north as st. Paul will allow himself
to be stepped on, fallen over, showed
and otherwise maltreated without eX-
pressing any vigorous sentiments. Prof.
Quaterfages maintains that above lat A
deg north. human beings are for the
most part serene and industrious, slow
to wrath and eXtrem 'ly moral. Yet we
find the people Of ST. Paul, lat A deg 50
min and As sec north, going about with
their backs up like midnight tomcat. |
and hlnn1chnt tall. |
ing about nothing but knockouts and !
smuggling, and paying thousands of hard |
earned dollars to see two men fight. 1t |
is the change of climatic cOnd- |
tons. For more than four years the |
winter temperature at st. Paul and |
vicinity has been from s degrees to 30 |
degrees higher than the average for the |
preceding thirty yeaIS. 1t is easier to |
raise oranges than ice-palaceS in st. !
Paul. For most of the past four years |
the st. Paul man has gone about In his |
shirt sleeves, and that in itself is cal |
cuiated to promote fighting. 1t is the |
dictum of the late NJ. Delsarte that
when we put ourselves in the attitude
representing any feeling, we immedi- |
ately experience that feeling. When |
man is going to fight. he peeIS his coat. |
and it follows that when from any |
cause a man takes his coat off he feels
desire to square off at somebody.-Mil- |
waukee Sentinel.
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The Hall and FitZsimmOns prize fight |
may take place in the wildS of North
ern Wisconsin. perhaps, but it will not
be fought in Minnesota Gov. Merriam
has upheld the decent sentiment of his
state, and saved it from deep disgrace
by putting a stop to it. When procla-
fnrhiAhinn If did CnffiOn In |
convince the aggregation of toughs and
blacklegs that the fight must not take
place, he ordered out the militia-a
move which left no doubt that he meant
what he said. Under their free and
easy mayors the Twin Cities have been
a veritable Ell Dorado for all the slug
gers in the country, but with a governor
who is determined to enforce the laws
of his state. they will be less popular
with that class and its diSreputable fol-
lowers hereafter. Gov. Merriam will
citizen of Minnesota for his action
Chicago Herald.
There will of course be scant sympa-
thy for the plug-uglies who gathered at
St. Paul to witness mill between two
of their idols and have been disappoint-
ed of their Stun" Even the ostensibly
respectable citizens of the athletic club,
under whose protection the felony was
to have been committed, and who, by
the action of Gov. Merriam, are said to
have incurred a money loss of about
$4,000, will not receive moiety of the
compassion to which they seem to think
they are entitled. Twelve thousand
dollars is small loss to put in the bal
ance against considerable gain of self
respect and consoling sense that, after
all, the law is greater than the unre-
strained passions of parcel of outlaws
and their accomplices.
The simple truth. which may best be
confessed by all members of athletic
clubs" is that professional prize fight
ers are common felons and have no
proper place outside of the penitentiary.
That being the case, no decent citizen
can afford to associate with them or to
abet their outlawry in any way.-Chi-