San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-07
The Daily Eight.
MONDAY, OCTOBER Z, '95
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While the legislature is in ses-
sion it sh ould not only knock out
the Corbett- Fitzsimmons prize
fight it should make the law frame.
ed for that purpose, com i've
CROUCH TO prohibit all boxing
matches between Texas school
boys and college students. There
are several excellent reasons for
this. In the first place boxing is
a brutal and demoralizing habit
that makes boys and young men
courageous, capable and self re-
liant in a physical emergency. 1t
has a vile and wicked tendency
to make the youth of Texas square
shouldered and broa chested and
develop their muscular system gen.
orally. 1t discourages the ancient
and honorable and chivalrous
habit OF pulling gun" or knife
every time a man gets into petty
difficulty and committing murder
on the spot (or trying to- because
he has neither the muscle nor ath-
letic skill to make a manly fight
in a manly way. 1t would break
up or at least seriously impair a
noble commerce in six-shooters
and bowie knives that has been
extremely gainful to those engag-
ed therein since time whereof the
memory of man runneth not to
the contrary. 1t would encourage
a degrading habit OF sending men
home to their wives with merely
a black eye or bruised nose,
ready for the fray again next day,
instead Of sending their bloody
corpses home to their heartbroken
widows, to be inferred with the
honors(?) of war, and the widows
left to hustle for themselves and
orphans as best they can. 1t
would in the course of time, il un-
checked, deprive our schools Of
the noble and inspiring spectacle
Of little boys drawing their knives |
in their boyish disputes and either
standing each other off or carving |
each other up as the circumstance |
Of the case might require to vindi-
cate their vealy honor. 1t would |
degrade the ancient and honorable
Texas hip pocket from functions
Of stern utility to those Of mere
ornament, and doubtful at that,
its location considered. 1t would
have a most disastrous effect in
checking, if not abolishing, the
fine art Of man-killing by the gilt
edged professionals Git being next
to impossible to kill man by the
use Of the brutal and degrading
fist and thereby drive the largest
part of our murderers out OF bust
mes. And lastly, gentlemen Of the
legislature, it would ruin the trade
Of our criminal lawyers, which it
is of course your solemn duty to
promote and build up in every
possible way at your commaed
and as many Of you belong to that
useful fraternity, this considera-
ton alone should prompt you to
act upon the suggestion of the
Graphic and thereby prevent a
large part of the learning in our
criminal Jurisprudence from
going, to shameful and needless
waste. For these reasons, oh,
solons Of Texas, to which we could |
add many others, the Graphic |
urges you not only to prevent the
awful crime against civilization,
God and the universe involved in
the proposed fist fight at Dallas,
but to make your law so stringent,
so terrible, that the youth of Texas
will never dare to train themselves
in the vile and Goddess art Of box
ing but will stick to the good old
way OF settling the disputes
with the recognized weapons of
murder. And when you have
done this, gentlemen Of the legis-
lature, the people Of Texas will
thank God on Bonded knees and
streaming eyes for the blessed
privilege Of being taxed thirty or
forty thousand dollars by order
OF Governor Culberson, not only
to prevent that appalling scrap at
Dallas between two scrappers from
Scrapville, but to prevent the fatal
infection from reaching the sacred
youth Of Texas by prohibiting
under dire penalties the vulgar
art Of scientific fist-fightipg either
in public or private, for fun or
in earnest, or any training or prac-
tice that may lead to the acquir-
ing OF such wickedness.
Mr.. j. X. Fowler, secretary
and treasurer of the Corinne Mill,