The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-04-02
BILL ARP'S WEEKLY LETTER.
SOME REMARKS CONCERNING THE
FIGHT AT CARSON.
WINKS APPROVAL ON THE SLY.
Boxirg Contests Are All Right If the
Principals arc Decent People,
Says william.

| or natural born instinct that makes
! man and beast take such an interest in
| night? Bulls and dogs and chicken
cocks dldent fall when Adam fell, but
they fight. St. John SAYS there was
war IN heaven; so it seems that this
hghtlng business has been going on a
long time. Cain kille Abel about 6 900
years ago and man and beast have been
hShtlng ever since. The men who
don't fight love to look on or read about
1t, and even woman, loving and kind
hearted as she is, always takes sides
A~.f III go" L--L-.ass To vi-L----,r
death. If woman hadn5y Sceue behind
us the late war would have ended in n
year. The epreachers preach peace and
love and hold up the Savior's teachings
before us. Love your enemies, and
if a man smites thee on one cheek,
turn the other to him also" But who
would do that. I have known
preacher to fight and boast of his VIC
tory. 1 recall another who took off
his coat in church and dared
n brother laymnn to go outside
with him and repeat the offensive
language. They were good men, but
just human. So + reckon this fight
ture, and if there was war in heaven,
then the instinct did not come froru
Adams fall, but we would have had il
anyhow. peace on earth and good
good will to man. is yet afar Off in
the corridors of time. a few martyrs
like Stephen have lived and died say
ing, Lord, lay not this sin to their
charge but the great majority OF
Christians and all the sinners either
hate their enemies or fail to love them
The instinct of our human nature iSre-
sentiment and it is so near akin to self
preservation that it seems juStiiiable.
\ man has as much right to resent n
personal in Jury as nation has to
fight another nation. There is no
| difference III the Christian morality,
for n nation is made up Of indi-
viduals. If 10000 may fight in de-
fenSe of their country, then one may
fight in defense of his home or his
property, or even his good name. But
both are wrong according to the Sa-
vlor's teachings, and if only those
be saved who live up TO those
teachings, then we are ali lost.
But when one of the disciples
! got alarmed and said: "Who then
can he saved?" His reply was: "With
men it is not possible, but with God
! all things are possible And on the
other occasion, whau disciple trcm-
! hlCrl under his teachings and in,mirri:
"Lord, are there few that be saved?"
| he avoided u direct answer and said:
| "Strive to enter in ut the straight gate,
| for many shall seek to enter, but shell
not be able.
So our comfort is that if we strive to
! do right we will get to heaven. Strive
| is the word, and it mcsHa 10 struggle,
to exert ourse!f diligently Let us all
! do that if we can, and | reckon We
can, or we would not have been told to-
was ruminatinG about The fight,
and my mind ran along into this chan
mel of thought Why did | feel an
| interest in it? Why did | have a lin
! gering desire that Ftz should lick
| Corbett? Well, [ took disgust ut
! Corbctt when read that he had for
| saien his wife and taken another with
| ont just cause or provoration. | re-
! mcmbcrcd how the papers said she
| stood by him and encouraged hin ut
| jacksonville and other places and 5C-
havcd herself IN woman! Y way. and
so | wanted him punished. But was
told today that Fitzsimmons had done
t1e same thing, and so now ! don't
care which whipped. Now let some
tbCr fellow tmn up and whip FitZ
and l will be satisfied Corbctt's first
wife has been avenged and his second
came to grief. [ don't take much stock
in dcnouncing prize fighting as the
worst thing in the world. The worst
thing about it is the company it keeps
the betting and gambling and drinking
that environs it. Ii two men want to
make trial of strength by pummclinE
each other, there is no more harm Ill it
than in n football! game, tnd the sur
roundings are not much worse.
These rugiliSts never kill ono nm
other, and the fight itself is not half rs
| 1al a. these stree. ducls and nj, pocket
pistols that are reported every day III
he newspapers. have seen police
IAN draw more blood when trying to
rest Il iiStUrbcr Df the peace. 1t is
pt so h0 rs Il bull fight in Mexico,
,ld YET every American who goes
here attends one, il not two or more.
! think should have liked to have
,"cn the !;@!it il | could have done so
II The sly, an! know many good men
.ni som" women Tho would have %on"
zee cy" on ii il they had had chance
al the crowd n:& / been dcc"nt one.
! 80, :hn}. la, - j. .H-.iur;i,r desire TO
a &.J: .."f u dog iiGh. re-
u.un"I .i.a' rli.fa"tion We school
nay n""i 10 havf in catching th" big