The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-11
GOOD FOR NEVADA.
comment on the Prize Flight Law !.

Comment on the Prize Fight Law.
The Sacramento Bee discourses thus about
Nsvada's prize lighting law. 1t hits large
number OF howlers below the belt, and we
coincide with the Bee fully: The Governor
of Nevads, in signing the bill licensing glove
contests iu that State, declared that he did
not consider prize-6ghting TO be anywhere
near as demoralizing and brutel as football.
The Governor isright. And yet from all
over the Nation has come howl against
NevAds, against Nevada's Legislature,
against NevadA's Governor, against Nevada's
peopIe-aud all for whsti We cannot 6nd
a single excuse therefor, except it to be
that Nevada has refused to be hypocrite,
and hypocrisy appears to be the prevail
ing fad Of the day.
There is absolutely nothing denoraliEing.
there is absolutely nothing brutalIziuR in
well-contested glove contest There is abb
solutely nothing connected with it. as
matter of strength, skill aud science, that
should debar any good women from witnes :
yit, whose nerves can stand the uospeAk-
able brutality of football match, and the
demoraizing effect such q contest cannot
fail to have on the nature Of that sex which
Is supposed to be tender hearted
And yet the ministers will spout from the
pulpit and editors will write in the press,
abusing glove contests and those who attend
them, and the same ministers and editors
will crowd to football matches and grow
enthusiastic over struggles infinitely more
brutal and dangerous to limbs and to life
than were the contests in .he prize ring even
with bare knuckles.
There is something also about many of the
editors of that State in connection with this
matter, which is very peculiar aud very
amusing. They love to see rat;ling glove
contest, in which the men are about equally
matched in strength. and are the acme and
the perfection of skill aud OF science. They
will privately own their love of the sport.
They will admit that it is neither brutal,
demoralizng, nor cruel, and yet these very
same men will either write articles denounc.
ing the good sport they enjoy, or will remain
silently acquiescent while the columns of
their papers are given over to its denuncia.
tion by ministerial organizations, sometimes
even--God save the mark and the applaud
the cheekl--by youths whose length of hair
testi6es 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 moi
brutal, that it is not demoralizng, permit
themselves to become mere echoes of meu
AMI women who never saw one, and who do
not know what they are talking about
Could hypocrisy farther 60, than when know
ledge is afraid to opsn its lips and become
but the blind echo Of ignorancef
The Bee has never asked of others wha
they think or what they do not think. /
has never condemned men who are opposes
to all glove contests for it believes that ever
man has q right to his own opinion. 1t doe
protest, however, against the blatant AM
the patent hypocrisy which will induce mel
to publicly denonnce that which they private
ly approve, aud to frown apoa this action o
Nevada when, if the truth were known,
mi ,rity Of them are saving up money i
order to see the the promised Corbett. Fit
simmons match.
As to the Bes, it has no hesitation in say
ing that one of its force, probably two, wi
be at that fight. The trip to the ring will
not be made any m IRE from a sense of dut.
10 the gathering Of news than from persons
interest aud enjoyment on the part OF the il
dividual or individuals who will attend
The Bee greets Nevada with renewed a:
surancss OF its most distinguished considers
tiou. Amid her sister States she shines ou
asparkling jewel of consistency in an oths
wise unOrOken sistsrhoqa Of hypocrisy