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Would be Demoralizing to the Youth
Throughout the Land.
Appeals to the President to Prevent
Pictures of the Carson Fight Being
Exhibited in the District of Column
bia and the Territories, and to
Governors to Take the Same Action
i'm Their Respective States.

CHICAGO, March 22-The following
appeal was forwarded to-day:
ITO His Excellency the President OF
the United StateS-Honored Ruler AS
the official representatives of 3oo,ooO
members of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Of the United
States, we earnestly entreat you to call
upon Congress to prohibit in the DIS
trict of Columbia and throughout the
various Territories the reproduction
by means of the kinetoscope or kin
dred instruments of the Corbett-F1rZ-
simmons fight or any like exhibition At
any future time.
I'VE believe that in making this re-
quest we are seeking the best welfare
of our citizens, especially the youth of
our land, who would be brutalized by
such lifelike representations of those
degrading spectacles.
I'VE learn that preparations upon
the largest scale are being made Cor
invading not alone our cities, but
every village and hamlet, with this
spectacular performance; that, bad as
was the influence of the fight upon the
comparative few who witnessed it in
person, 1t would be infinitely worse be-
cause so much more far-reaching if
thus produced. We are making like re-
quests of the chief officials and Legis-
latures Of the various States, and have
a strong hope that in the majority of
them necessary legislation may result
I'VE are glad to feel assured at the
outset that your personal sympathy
must be with US and your official
sanction will be given to this request
o1ao rlyv n tho interests of naOralttV
Sincerely and respectfully yours,
FRANCES E. WILLARD,
President.
katherine L. Stevenson,
corresponding Secretary w. c. T. u
APPEAL TO GOVERNORS.
The appeal to Governors is as fol-
lows:
ITO His Excellency, Governor of -
-Honored Sir: AS the official repre-
sentatives of the 800 900 members of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of the United States, we earn
estly entreat you to do all in your
power to see that a bill is introduced
into and carried through the Legisla-
ture of your State which shall prohibit
the reproduction by means of the XII
Microscope or kindred instruments of
the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight, or Of
any like exhibition at any future time
Preparations upon the largest scale
are being made for invading not alone
the cities, but the villages and hamlets
of the land, with these lifelike repre-
sensations of this degrading spectacle.
We feel that if this should be allow ed
to go on the influence Of the fight upon
the comparative few who witnessed it
in person would be small compared
with which what would follow this
wholesale exhibition. Especially do we
fear it's effect upon the youth Of our
land, as well as upon the fathers and
mothers.
I'VE have already petitioned Presi-
dent Mckinley to use his authority to
prevent this in the District of Column
bia and the Territories, and we are
sending this letter to the Governors Of
the various States.
May we not hope for your personal
cooperation and earnest Endorsement?
We learn through the newspapers that
Massachusetts and Illinois have already
introduced bills prohibiting these ex-
hibitions We trust these are only the
preludes to a great chorus of protests
which shall arise from every State in
our Nation.
TN the interests Of true citizenship,
we have the honor to sign ourselves,
sincerely yours,
Frances z. Willard, President Ma
tional W. c. T. L.
Katherine Lent Stevenson, Core
spending Secretary, W. c. T. u"
Letters have already been sent to the
National Superintendent of Purity. DR..
Mary Wood Allen of Michigan. and to
the National Superintendent Of Purity
in Literature and Art, Mrs. Emily Z.
Martin OF New York City, urging them
to take up the issue and push it
through their departments all over the
United States. The attention of every
State W. c. T. L. President viii also
be called tc it, and they viii be request
ed to use their influence with their
legislators by means Of petitions or let
ters at once The leading editorial in
the next Union Signal is upon the
subject of the evil effects Of this bru-
tai exhibition through the kaleidoscope.
PUGILISM is BARBARISM.
WASHINGTON, March 22.-The APP