The San Francisco call., 1897-03-15

excuses offered by the Legislators of Ne
vada for thus legalizing crime are: '1t
will bring money into the State" and sit
will advertise the State" Each OF these
statements is true.
Possibly there may be $4,000 left in the
State by those who visit the first prize
fight brought there by their new law; but
Nevada will find it very dearly earned
money. The people who go there will
leave something besides money behind
them. The gathering together in their
capital city OF the class of persons who
always swarm around a prize-fight and
the act of their Legislature and Governor
making legal brutal fight will stain the
morals and blight the character Of the
youth Of that State, the effect Of which
cannot be removed by $50 600 900 OF gold.
Truly the State has been advertised by
the making of the law and by the fight it
has invited.
San Francisco, and especially one Of its
churches, was advertised by the murder
of two innocent girls. Thousands focked
to the church. 1t was filled with people
from basement to belfry, but did you
ever hear of any desirable citizens who
members Of that unfortunate church be-
cause of the advertisement by the 'crime
of the century,? Such is the advertise
ment our unfo rtunate sister State is re-
ceiving by the ''prize-hght of the CEN
tury."
One of the patriotic legislators who con-
stituted themselves a committee OF invi-
tation to bring the Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons fight to their State has become seri-
ously offended by the insinuations OF peo-
pie in other States concerning the morals
of Nevada, and he afirms that there il no
State IN the Union where life and property
are safer; where women and children re-
ceive as great protection and where the
poor are better cared for.
That may have been true in February,
1897, but it will be long time after the
18th day OF March, 1897, before, If ever, it
will be again true.
Since the Goth day OF last January, when
Governor Sadler signed the law permitting
prize-f and Dan Stuart decided that
Nevada should be the battle-ground be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons, the daily
papers of this and other cities have made
occasional (P) references to the event. On
the 4th of this month Mr.. Mckinley was
inaugurated as President of the United
States, but that event is of such small i'm
portance with the people of this coast
that the daily papers give from ten to
fifteen times as much space to the latter
event. One paper gives five cuts OF the
new President and seventy-fve cuts OF
Corbett and Fitzsimmons within the
month.
The people have such q hungering after
this sort of news that their paid agents,
the newspaper reporters and artists are
watching every movement of these men.
They are caught by the kodak when
being welcomed to the State by Governor
Sadler, at the postoffice receiving mail,
sprinting through snow or mud, and in
almost every attitude the wideawake
newspaper man chances to see them.
The high contracting parties are paid to
tell each day how they have slept, what
they have dreamed, what they ate, etc,
what they are thinking about or any other
matters of i'm portance of which they may
choose to speak.
You will observe that say the above is
the peoples estimate Of these events.
Some may inquire why charge the people
with what the daily papers do. The
Prophet Hosea 2700 years ago said, Like
people like priest" and 30 it is to-day,
Like people like 6aily papers" That is,
the daily paper is what the people de-