The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-02-03
SAN JONES ON THE FIGHT.
The Evangelist Tackles the Pugil-
lists With Gloves Of.
Governor Mitchell Praised and Judge Call
Excoriatec-Arguments Summarized
by the Preacher Who Whipped
the Mayor of Palestine.
lCOPYRIGET. 1874.


press Of America, in this mornings
issue, gives full account of the Cor
bett-Mitchen glove contest; in the
great arena prepared by the Duval club
IN the city Of Jacksonville, Fla. Cor
bett knocked Mitchell out in three
rounds.
1t IS commonly accepted that there
are two sides to all questions. Let us
look calmly on both sides Of prize
fight.
The advocates of prize fighting can
say:
1st. It gives traffic to our railroads.
End. The Western Union Telegraph
Company is furnished large and lu-
crative business.
3rd The daily press is supplied with
all the sensational matter they care to
handle.
4th. 1t furnishes the saloons with all
the business they are capable Of doing.
l suppose jacksonville saloons never
had SO much business as they have had
in the last few days.
5th. 1t delights spectators There is
no sight beneath the stars on which
sports and thugs and buns look with
such delight as the brutality exhibited
in the arena.
9th. 1t paid the contestants in this
ease. Mitchells fees, Of course, were
not much, but Corbett pockets thirty
thousand dollars.
7th. 1t furnishes the gam bling sports
opportunity for immense profits and
losses. God only knows how much was
lost and won on both sides Of both
oceans on this contest.
Calmly surveying the field, there
seems to be no other possible benefit
accruing to any one through this con-
test.
Now let US go around and look on the
other side, and invite every good citi-
zen, every honest father and mother,
and every professed Christian to look
| with me.
1st. These "glove contests" or prize
| fights are more demOraliZing to men
than a Spanish bull fight They are
the exaltation Of physical strength or
| power to knock down and out-the dis
position and practice Of mules with
| heels turned together, and no brains at
the other end Of the Misunderstanding
elevating, nothing beneficent, but alto
gether subversive to manhood and de-
cency.
Cd It is demoralizing to great state;
an insult to her executive and her laws
! Every good citizen Of every state will
! honor Governor Mitchell for the stand
| he took and maintained until enjOined
| by Judge of his own state. The good
people of Florida can never honor a
man too much who stood for decency
and tried to avert the disgrace sought
| to be heaped upon his state.
Sd. 1t was an opportunity for judge
to make an ass of himself and bring
! reproach upon his state and the good
people who had honOred him. | have
| nothing to do with the personal char
acter Of any official connected with this
affair. A judge may be influenced by a
! howling mob, by the aggregated voice
| of an immoral and lawless crowd. He
NAV hear only the voices and cries of
a rabble, ''Crucify him! Cruelty him.
| and vet there is the still small and yet
| stronger voice of the judges wife.
"have nothing to do with this man, for
| have had strange dream concerning
| him" This is the voice Of righe and
! is the conscientious hope Of the world.
! It is the sentiment which protects and
perpetu#tes Judges on the bench, and
| kings upon their thrones. NOX pOpui,
! Nox Del. but when q Judge mistakes
| the cry of mob for the voice Of the
| people. and therefore the voice Of God
he has made a mistake which will
! finally undermine judicial power and
paraly2e the arm Of the law.
What a spectacle! The governor en-
! ioincd and made powerless; mob
! headed by the Duval club; prize fight
in spite OF the wishes of the state; =
| Judge disarming the militia by his de-
! cree and the Duvai club generously
| agreeing to admit all the state militia
! who wore a uniform. at ten dollars d
head, while others paid twenty -fve
! dollars head. If the devil dtdn, I
move a quarter section of his entiti@-
! ments to jacksonville, it was bccau>c
| he saw that his forces already had per
| manent possession OF the field. .
4th. 1t congregates the thugs and
/ huns and sports from all the states.
/ puts pandemonium on top. and rele-
! gates deceucy to the rear. There may
! have been some good men connected
(
! some when all the crowd Of sports as
| sembled. This sort of a perforlra.c,
which puts the bad on top. and rele-
gates the good to the background. i
! hurtful and harmful 10 morals more
/ than the angels tongue can tell.
5th. The influence Of these prize
fights furnish food for discussion ~
/ clubs and saloon dives. and to street
| corner loafers. and is demoralizing to
an already demoralized people. and
Will bear its fruits which will ripen il
! the penitentiary and be p.uci,ed on the
! gallOws.
| 9th. The influence of prize fights on
t the Young men of oar country. which
! fosters the love Of athletics. boat
races. foot ball games, baseball. and
/ so on. is hurtful indeed. There !
scarcely a seat Of learning without II
teams and boat races. Between Har-
ward and Princeton a football game:
ba+raen New York and Chicago the