Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-13
BADGER FIGH IS UNDER THE
 BAN
Many Protests Made by People Who Never Saw One of the Fights, and Felt ExhiIaration Thereat.

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 Mayor Adamscn has hung out the bag of distress. Ever since the re- v!val of badger fighting in this city, which occurred with the opening of a new downtown resort, and the publici- ty gwen them, he has been besieged with letters from certain humane per sons who have protested most vigor- ously against a continuance of the sport. So thick became the stack of protests at his office that for a time it looked as if he would have to en- gage additional clerical help. Among the latest Is a reader of the local pap CTS who lives in Los Angeles. He takes an awful tall" out of Douglas, apparently ignorant of the fact that badger fighting in Los Angeles is as frequent as it is here, though per. haps so much attention has not been devoted to it in the newspapers. The Mayor Wants Help. Mayor Adamson, in order to stop the string of letters of protest that is submerging his office, has told his troubles to the Internat,onal-Americ and asked that something be done to lessen the bother which is accruing on the mayors office. How the may or can stop the sport is not just ap- parent, for it is clearly not up to the mayor to take the initiative in the matter.
 Badger fighting is distinctive sport of the south and southwest and l to place ban on it would have about the same effect as if someone would declare bull fighting. the national sport of Mexico, at an end. Moreover, it is declared by those who have seen fights between badgers and bull dogs that the sport is not as brutal as those who have never seen them allege.
 Brutality Exaggerated.
 Newspaper accounts at times exag- gerate the sport. Instead of going to the finish" as a rule one or the oth- CT of the animals is taken out before he is seriously wounded, so that an other fight may be had. It certainly cannot be said that there is as much brutality in a badger-bull dog fight as in a bull fight In fact, they are no more brutal than an ordinary dog fight About the only difference is that two different species of animals meet, which lends spice to the GU counter. There is also a little more action to such a fight.
 "Inhuman and indecent"
 The Los Angeles letter follows:
 Los Angeles, August ', 1907. To the Mayor, Douglas, Ariz.,
 Dear Sir: Is it possible to believe that the mayor and the people of Douglas will permit such inhuman unciviliZed and brutal practice as the bull dog and badger fights Can you call yourselves intellectual people and see the finger of scorn and derision pointed at your people on account of such indecent and inhuman practices?
 We are told that Douglas has a hu- mane society but it is hard to believe. I have travelled in almost every cline throughout the world and never in any semi-civilized country have I wit messed such m'serabIy treated ami mals as in the little city of Douglas.
 Devout Persons Do Not Protest.
 Yours is a city of chuTches-sOme very beautiful and expensive-which certainly approve, but I have failed in a single instance to hear tell of one of these saintly and devout per sons raising a hand in protest against such indecent practices as these. Is it any wondering even the mention ing of the name Arizona" creates jeers and laughter in every civilized state? And it shall ever be so as long as your extremely intellectual ed itors of your papers announce without one word of protest such high class, intellectual and moral entertainments. such as the one advertised in last Fridays paper. A poor dumb brute is dragged from it's lair to be torn to pieces inch by inch. Surely yours is a city to be envied-a city where they advocate such high class entertain ments and where good morals are taught to broaden the minds of the rising generation
 Breeds criminaIity.
 Just as long as such brutality is tol- erated just so long will your territory be noted for it's multitude of criml- nals, for every intellectual person knows that brutality breeds criminali- ty, and by such brutality as your peo- pie of Douglas are tolerating they are breeding criminality into the younger generation.
 The sins of the parents shall be visited upon the children"
 Yours respectfully and in hopes of better things,
 R. s. ALBAUGH.