Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-03
BADGER FIGHT: HAS CAUSED
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Review Subscriber Writes a Protest Against Cruelty of Sport and Urges Laws Pro- hibiting Cruel Exhibition.
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 Bisbee. Feb. ?. 1909.
 Ediio- Review: T respectfully re quest that you will open tine columns CT your paper 10 public discussion Of recent outrageous incident which l am sure has brought the finger or saame to bear upon this city. re fer. Of course, to the brutal fight be tween dog and 8 badger which was permitted to take place last week in a Risbee saloon. This event was fully described in last Wednesdays issue of your esteemed paper. As & Christian woman. and a member of the Humane Society. and insthe name ot humanity and of our boasted civ ilization, l protest against this dis graceful form Of sport.
 What right have we to assume the better than thou" attitude toward the Mexican and Spa1iard, brutal ana un- natural as may be their conception of sports. Is Q bull fight after all so utterly helliSh as this matching of a dog against a badger? In the Mexi- can bull fight the matadors. at least. deliberately risk their lives and take the chances that skill and ability give them and their unfortunate mounts. Even the matching of two cocks in a pit. each spurred with cruel steel. fiendisA as it Is. does pot fA me vith half the horror thar ! felt upon read ing tLe account Of the s0-ealled ''badger fight"
 My girlhood days were spent in Wisconsin. and l can well remember my brothers bringing in live badger they had trapped in tAe wood The poor animal had been worried by the dogs until it's rage was pitiful anc terrible. l remember tha- one of the hounds came too close 10 the box in which the poor creature was caged. T-iere was a lightning thrust Of a cruel claw through the bars and the dog was all but disembowled My father sewed the wound, but it was a month before the hound was of any use again. Classics in prose and verse have honcred the dog as the most .n- telligent and lOvable of all mans aui- nal friends. Inc idea of Ehstrcating a dog is utterly reyJltiag 10 Q decent man or woman.
 1T the masses. like the wretched Ro- man populace Of old. must be amused with brutal sports let us palder to the beast in man by making prize fighting legal. The pugilist, at least. knows what 1e is doing w-en he en- ters the ring and there is for him Q compensation in money and false glory. But let us, 1T we have hearts in our breast, spare our poor dumb Erutes. How can the laws Of this territory consistently prohibit prize fighting and at the same time permit and tolerate sucl a prearranged and advertised scene of disgrace as the one witnessed by a hundred men last Wednesday night2
 Aye. pity the poor horse gOred in the bull ring of Mexico; Mexico is cnly half civilized anyhow What of that innocent dog torn and bleeding. mayb be wounded to death by the hor- riblc claws of tae badger. What of the poor wild creature prodded and leased to the point of madness and then jerked violently out of q barrel to confront an excited dog whom it unwittingly thinks its persecutor2 What man with a spark of manhood about him would or could call that sport?
 1 wonder if Bisbee knows or cares that her disgrace ans been hcTalded far and wide over the country A member of the Humane Society of Boston. who is visiting in IT PasO, has written me expressing her ildig- nation, and declaring that the in- famous affair shall have all the pub licity that the national society can give it. From Birmingham. Alabama, comes the protest Of a committee of earnest Christian men and women. personally intend to call the incident to the attention of Miss Lind-Al. Hageby, the great Anglo Swede friend Of animals and zealous opponent of vivisection. who Is lecturing to vast crCv ds in this country
 And the end is not yet The Hoto iiety of this brutal badger fgit UiU gain daily momentum as fast as the decent humane Deople of thu country learn of it. Well -nig1t Q Mexican who heard of th's disgusting cruelty sheer at the selfrigateous at ttude which the average American assumes toward bull fighting. Lo the many are judged by the sins oi fhs few. IT the Review can find room for this protest just as write it l shall be most grateful for the favor