Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-02-03
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
WEDNESDAY,. rEEGUAcY3, 1897
GOOD FOR NEVADA.

hOWlei5 below the Delt:
The Governor of Nevada. i'll sign
ing the bill licensing glove coutests in
that State, declared that he did not
consider prize-fshting to be any
where near as demoraliz!ng and
brutal as football. -s. ..
The Governor is right. And yet
from all over the Nation has come Il
howl against Nevada, against Ne
vada's Legislature. against NeVada's
Governor, against Nevada's people
and all for what? We cannot find a
single excuse therefor, except it be
that Nevada has refused to be a
hypocrite, and hypocrisy appears to
be the prevailing fad OF the day.
There is absolutely notbin ing cruel,
there is absolutely nothing democrat
izing, there is absolutely nothing
brutalizng in weD-contested glove
contest. There is absolutely nothing
connected with it, as matter OF
strength, Sill and science, that
should debar any good woman from
witnessing it, whose nerves can stand
the unspeakable brutality Of foot
ball match, and the demorallzlng
effect such contest cannot fail to
have on The nature of that sex winch
10 Supposed to be tender-hearCed.
And yet the ministers will spout
from the pulpit and editors will write
III the press, abusing glove contests
and those who attend them. and the
same ministers and editors will crowd
to football matches and grow enthusi-
astlc over struggles infinitely more
brutal and dangerous to limb and to
life than were The contests in the prize
ring even with bare Enucl;ies.
There is something also about
many of the editors of that State in
connection with this matter, which ID
very peculiar and very amusing.
They love to see "a rafting glove con-
test, in which the men are about
equally matched in strength, and e:e
the acme and the perfection Of sl;ll
and of science. They will privately
own to their !ove of the sport. They
will admit that it is neither brutal,
demora]iZing, nor cruel, and yet these
very Same men will either write
articles denomcing the good sport
they enjoy, or will remain
silently acquiescent while the COL
umns of their papers are given over
to Its denunciation by ministerial Or
CARNATIONS, sometimes even-God
save the mark and the devil applaud
he cheek!-by youths whose length
Of hair testifies that they are slaves to
the pernicious practice Of football.
Now, why is this? Why do men
who have seen many good glove
contest and who know that it is not
cruel, that it is not brrtal, that it is
not demoralizing, permit themselves
to become mere echoes of men and
women who have never seen one, and
who do not know what they are talk
ing about? Could hypocrisy farther
go, than when knowledge is afraid to
open its lips and becomes but tile
blind echo Of 'gnorance? TO-
The Bee has never asked of others
what they think or what they do not
think. 1t has never condemned men
who are opposed to all glove contests,
for it believes that every man has a
right to his own opinion. 1t does pro-
test, however, against the blatant and
the patent hypocrisy which will iu-
duce men to Publicly denounce that
which they priately approve, and to
frown upon this action OF Nevada
when, if the truth we're known, n ma
jority of them are saving up money in
order to see the promised Corbett-
Fitzsimmons match.
As 10 The Bee, it has no hesitation
in saying that one of it's force, probab-
y two, will be at that fight. The trip
to the ring will not be made any more