The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-27
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A FEW THINGS.

Captain-General Weyler Of Cuba. de-
MES the report that he is shooting pris-
oners and declares emphatically that
there hasn't been single execution since
he assumed command No one has ever
accused the worthy captain-general of
any conduct of that character; single
executions were not mentioned by any
of the correspondents. What the boys
sent out referred to shooting fifty or
sixty men at time.
A Chicago paper tells of a baby which
began talking at four months Here is
another rival for Corbett and Fftzsim-
mons.
So at last the air ship has been per-
fected. If this report be true, there will
be no use in passing a militia bill and
the house and senate might as well lay
the matter Oh the table indefinitely. The
day that sees the air ship a. success
marks the end of war. -Jorgensen
rifles and Maxim guns, HotchklsS can
non and Browning repeaters VIII all faqe
away. The havoc they can cause would
be play as compared. with the airship:
Think of the pilot on an aerial vessel
lowering above New York City and
dropping down a message: In one hour
by the watch, unless my conditions are
complied with. L propose to let fall
half ton of dynamite, which have
carefully prepared, up here" Three or
four instances of this kind would mean
that the nations would get together and
agree that no more slaughter should be
INDUCED in.
All tariff legislation will be null and
void when the airship is perfected, I'M
less perchance the Republicans want to
make of every village and farm house in
the land a port of entry. Because the
man who navigateS the same need not be
particular where he makes debarking
the better. 1t would keep some thou
sands of collectors of customs busy fol-
lowing up these winged modes of trans
portation. General use of airship1
means free trade the world over.
The New York Journal has inaugu-
rated war against prize fighting and
a few days ago invited some of the resi-
dents of Murray Hill to contribute some
thing on the subject. Among the num-
Der were ladies' The first reply came
from Mrs. C. l.. Kernochan, who disap-
pointed the editor by writing the follow
ing:
them fight. 1t only hurts them. A little
blood flowing is sometimes a good thing
for brutal men. No one need seed a figlW
if they do not care for it"
Eliza A. Conner took an odd view of
the case. She does not object to fighting,
but in the fighters allowing themselves
read:
Il consider public prize fights more
brutaliZing than bull fights. They bru-
talize not only the fighters themselves.
They draw around them gang ,of
drinking, gambling, degraded toughs who
are menace to civilization. They are
in no sense any longer a trial of physical
strength between two Well-matched op-
ponents, but are mere gambling exhi-
bition. If two men wished to try which
was the stronger they could at any time
go into an empty barn anywhere in the
country or In an open field and fight it
out in friendly bout, as used to be done
in Ireland and Wales and in the pioneer
days of this country. Nobody would him
der men from fighting in that way.
But as to the human brutes who at
present engage in bruising each other for
money, / should like to see each victor in
turn t1rashed within n inch of his life
by somebody stronger than himself till
only the last one was left, and he so
broken down than he could never tight
again. Then we should have some peace,
with laws in all the states forbidding
this brutal and shocking business"
Mrs. Robert Macarthur and Miss Grace
Dodge both declared against fighting and
did not see how any one could believe in
it. They did not with Mrs. Connor.
want to see the human brutes
left SO broken up that he could not fight
again But it is dollars to crullers these
danes and damsels would go to a foot
ball game and scream with delight when
Harvard's tackle kicked a lung out of
the Yale half back.
There isn't anything brutal about prize
fighting as remodeled. Take the F'itz-
simmons aher fight. The men may have
damaged their lungs in the six months
conversation they had with each other
prior to the mill. it is true, but when
the actual battle came up there was
nothing to it, which could be designated as
brutal. There were six blows struck with
five ounce goves; that was all. Both men
ate supper the same evening without
struggle. The only thing brutal about
the affair was the walking the spectators
had to do to get to the battle ground
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