New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-28
AT BURGESS & HorFMAN's. sIxTH-AvE.
AND TWENTY-FIRST-sT
THE RECENT PRIZEFIGHT.
A WOMAN GIVES HER OPINION on WHAT
SHE TERMS 'LEGALIZED CRIME"

WOMAN GIVES HEE OFlNlON ON w Hal
SHE TERMS "LEGALIzED CRIME"
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir; In the brilliant light OF the century tina,
boasts OF the creates. advance into science tho
highest appreciation OF art, the most far-reaching
philanthropy, the broadest reform the truest cult
ure and the most liberal creeds and religions, Is II
not an inexplicable commentary on this astound-
Ing civilization that the foremost country or them
all should become the arena for the most brutal
prlzefght OF the era II IS rreconciabe for 4 i5
legalized crime. Away back in prehistoric times,
when man little gentler than his savage four
footed brother beasts, an encounter Ike the one
that disgraced Nevada last week might have been
somewhat in keeping with the darkness and brutal
ity OF his surroundings. For primitive man had
little OF the angel In him. though one would think
that countless cycles OF evolution with the light OF
religion growing steadily clearer all the while.
would have surely done for him than tit him
for the highest appreciation OF twentieth century
prizefght
The Old World, with its barbarc and seml-oar-
barc traditions and chronicles OF evil and super
stiton-lts long oppression OF the weaker by the
stronger, It's principle OF might making right
would seemingly have proved a more fitting spot
for this uncvilized lapse than the fair young new
world with its smiling face unclouded by brutal,
bigoted past Yet It's very youth and ineXperience
may have brought about its humiliation. At any
rate every woman OF true refinement was shocked
last week BY the degrading spectacle Of two alleged
men, stripped in days OF savasery, and bending
every muscle and energy toward the highest evil
dence OF the lowest nature MANKIND mas yer 10 cor
A New-York paper estimated last Sunday the
anount Of money expended IN bringing about and
conducting the fight, and the sum total was some
thing over S2pDcl0 Truly, princely sum TOT so
deep deeradation sum iaat w2u . cen IN, ,I,e
misery and sin IN this great city anu Nv Il sss
ing view OF happiness and heaven. But the erect
ob,6trg SSalar7i,v ~ the whole event Pictorially
in the most revoing details the brutality has been
CO m eav thai tons OF printed matter have told
the story around the world. Brute force mas oeeh
steel and IRON s the perfection Of phys cal develop
nent and the bulldog instinct 70 mold on TO the
hravarv and courage Here is where the harm ia
done in incorporating facts and giving our boys
noble ana admirable qualities. Boys are 100 young
10 know that manly strength IS strongest when II
culture and moral courage go hand IN hand with
a cultivated mind and a consecrated heart.
siderate3 Are they known FOR their culture and
consecrstion? The brutality OF the Spanish BULL
the degredatlon o, the modern prizehght For the
bull IS unconscious and soul.ess participant
test. and has neither intellectual nor spiritual
nature crush or 10 Kill True ouiinshIs are
sirkenfnz in the extreme but manhghts are revolt
ing beyond measure. For man. made N Coils
image, deliberately and willingly descends from
his grandeur and lowers himself 20 the plane or
the brute whose dominant force is the purely
Every one knows that the excessive cultivation
and exercise OF one nature Is ALWAYS az me eN-
Enthusiastically the intellectual strength mat
weakens the body and wearies the spirit The
great religious fanatics centuries ago mortlued
the flesh and dued the clear reasoning OF the
mental powers by their insane devotion TO tho
Spiritual. whose divine beauty and glory. long
past would have won tho world for God II tho
fanatics zeal had only been tempered by the wise
mans knowledge
It is impossible 10 cultivate the mind without be-
coming intellectual develop the body without |
growing physical train the spirit without being
spiritual Therefore the symmetrical. well-polsed
Individuality +. attained only By equal careful and
coordinate culture OF the threefold nature. The /
physical should be cultivated only TO the degree |
where II becomes whole. Fymmetrically de- !
veoped Beyond this degree the physical Will
dominate. ~. T., !
The presence Of woman at the recent fght IL !
beyond all precedent, for what has sh" IN common
with unhrdlad brutality and evtdertifl cr'icIfvF !
MISS MARY I. HUNTLEY. NJ New-YnSk CITY.