New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10
u Vou E1er See Those Fight Pictures? That Depends

of thought on the subject. Many persons
! sincerely want to stop any prizefghC and
any pictures of any fight at any time.
/ They do not make a great deal Of noise.
/ except one society, which has come to the
/ front in this movement. think one of the
sanest is a negro preacher in Washington.
/ who said: hope Johnson's victory viii
! stop prizefghting The whites were not
/ fair to him, but that makes no difference.
The fight was wrong, 10 matter who Won,
| and it is wrong TO show the pictures where
| any young people can see them. If race
| prejudice helps to Keep them from being
shown that is one good thing race preju-
/ dice has done
/ II talked with lawyer downtown who
had the most pronounced views on the sub
( ject. : Prize fighting is too vile 10 be toll
/ Grated any longer he said. The local ord
inances OF almost every city in the Union
/ forbid indecent and vicious pictures. and
as such the fight films ought to be barred
from every theatre. We the American
people, ought 70 insist that they shall be
barred for the sake of our children and
our neighbors' children I hope that 10
wfte man ever touches the championship
/ again. now that it has been soiled' This
man had bet $500 on Jeffries, as I learned
afterward. You can imagine. Badly. what
is my opinion of a man who would do that
Il asked a reporter whom I met whether
the protest against the films was general
in New York. 'Shucks.' he said There
isn't protest enough 10 start Hearst
boom The parsons are all out OF town.
and every body else wants to see the picr-
ures. A lot Of SoUtherners looking for
cheap popularity and some Boston sky
pilots with the stationery and the moral
support of a big society have made the
whole hulIabaIoo. OF course. there's moth
ing much else 10 print, so it goes in 10 I'll
the paper
IT'S easy. You send a cable TO your cor
respondent at Nairobi. Get protest or fight
films and the correspondent comes back
with highbrow dispatch The Parl1a-
nlent and Council have grave fears OF an
uprising Of the blacks If the triumph OF
the negro Johnson should be portrayed
cinematographica1ly upon the screens OF
Nairobps theatres. It Is suggested that the
United States government confscate the
films and recompense the owners
One Of the men who owns the films
talked as if he knew his business. We
aren't eojnE to make trouble. he said. but
we shall show the pictures wherever We are
allowed to. We have quarter OF
million invested in them. There won't be
any rnassacres or neEr0es.
The pictures VIII go only TO the best
class of houses. and the rents viii be 50
heavy that the seats viii probably sell at
from 81 to % cents That VIII freeze ONT
the cheap crowd that might make trouble.
ct think all this talk VIII die out any
way when the people see what We have
70 show. The light wasn't any cruel eN-
hlbitlon OF brutality. Johnson licked JEFF.
but he v.as good TO him. He knew he was
going to win. and he rust tired him out
wrestling with him and then knocked him
out and got il over Il was a good clean
fight all through.
We stopped before moving picture the
atre as O'FarFeu finished, and a huge sign
caught my eye. II read: The Winning