Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-25
CONCERNING SLUGGTNG


The promoters Of prize-fghting, in
st. Paul, are not only disguised, they
are exasperated. The president Of the
club which had arranged for the slug
ging mill between Fitzsimmons and
Hall says, among other things, in a
card concerning the hiHdrance Of the
fight:
The club loses It's deposit of 5000 as a
deposit TO protect the contestants, and Ia
addition about $1,000 expended In the con
structinn OF the big pavilion and for other
necessary expenses. Under the circum-
stances the action OF the state authorities
- cruel aud unjust, rs the tight could and
should have been prevented thirty to
sixty days ago. before "A dollar o. eXpcus,
had been incurred. Mayor Smith earnest
~ urged the club TO go on with the fight.
but 10 was decided 10 drop IL IN order To-
remove all possibility of disorder or blood
shed
This may be tale Of woe" so far
as the club that loses is concerned.
but il will be a source of thorough sat
isfaction to the people of this country
who have not allowed the mania for
athletics TO brutaliZe them and their
tastes. 1t means, moreover, that
there may be other successful Efforts
made by officials elsewhere to sustain
the authority and dignity OF the law.
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There is "A maxim Of the common
law which declares that no man shall
profit by his own wrong, and this prin-
ciple will promptly preclude any sym
patty for the losers in the affair at st.
Paul, so patheticaily written about hy
the president Of the athletic club
mentioned above. That club knew
that il was defying the law Of the land
when IL made its arrangements for the
sluggiRg match which was so effcctu-
atty shut Off 10y the action OF the gov
ernor Of Minnesota and the suboFdi-
nate officials having the executives
directions in hand, but those pro-
meters of brutality supposed, as such
people. always do, that they could
cOOlly go on with the business in utter
contempt Of all authority, as has been
so frequently done elsewhere. They
discovered, however, that the governor
was in earnest and that the sheriff
could not be bought off, or subdued !
and silenced by any other means. So
with deep disappointment, painful re-
iuctrance and pitiful whine about
cruelty and injustice, they decided to
submit TO the law because they |
couldn't help themselves, and then as
sumed virtue by declaring that they
deSisted from their intended infrac-
tions OF the rules Of civil action" in
order TO remove all possibility of dis
order or bloodshed."
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There will be some people in st. Paul
who will be so much disguised with
this successful assertion by the law of
the law; so much exasperated TO find
that the laws 10 preserve the public
peace are real, and not a bluff or
Joke, that they will declare their in-
tent to leave the state. Some ueople
are not happy where law is executed.
for the same reason that
NO thief e'er felt the halter draw,
win good opinion OF the law
and when all such do leave state they
leave the country for the country's
good. The unfortunate thing about {
the movement being, that necessarily. 1
they VIII go to some other state where a
their presence will be no more desira- {
Die than In the state they leave, Be 8
sides as the movement of people, good,
bad and Indifferent, is largely toward c
the west, we of Washington may get a
some OF them, which would be doubly {
unfortunate, inasmuch as that we a
have more than enough Of that class q
already, for lawbreakers and the brutal y
we always have with us, as well as the i
poor. h
III, however, the states could form a Il
sort OF gauntlet and run such peonle 4
through it and into ''the devil or the {
deep sea-" the country would be pro- (
noting that good time, for which the /
world has long been looking. /
when the lion and the lamb c
may lie down together without the
lamb being inside OF the lion.
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The prizc-fight at st. Paul was TO
draw a big crowd that would spend
great deal OF money there, and thus h
Increase many lines of trade, temper :,
irily, but there has been too much r,