Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-19
Mistrllanrou5 Grading.
THE PRIZE FIGHT PICTURES.
What Various Papers Are Saying
About Agitation.
Monev- -Makino Scbepoe

The chief complaint of the public
against the Reno prize fight is that it
was organized largely for the purpose
of producing films for the motion pict-
urc industry. The immense sums of
money paid to the promoters of the
tight and the principals for the motion
picture privileges is clear proof that
far greater sums are expected in re-
turn from the millions of people who
patroniZe the cheap entertainment
places. 1t is assumed that the shock
ing spectacle of two men pOmmulling
one another in the presence of an i'm
mense audience will be spread before
spectators of all ages and social con-
ditions. The prize fight, prohibited by
law in all the states of the Union, even
including that I'm which it was held,
will he thus i'm effect fought i'm every
city and large town in the United
States by means of these Photographic
reprOductions.-Wa Star.
Pictures and Realities.
Certainly the question of barring the
motion pictures of the Reno fight Is
one To he resolved by local authori-
ties. for it will be hard for governors
to take the extreme Christian Endeav-
or view that the films he prohibited by
state authorities "On the ground that
they are a reproduction of n form of
entertainment against which there is
statute law and that the reproduction
by moving pictures is as bad as the
entertainment itself" Morally this
principle is sound, but where the stat
ute does not specifically prohibit repro-
ductions of fights as well as the fights
themselves. the owners of the films
will not be defeated in that fashion,
New York Press.
A Question of Public Peace.
If the bar announcement from Reno
of the defeat of Jeffries by Johnson
was sufficient to stir up race hatred in
different parts of the country and
cause riot and blOodshed. the effect of
the moving pictures of the fight that
are to be exhibited would he much
wOrsc.-Newark Star.
Sound Public Policy.
It's a question whether sound public
policy doesn't call for the suppression
of the pictures i'm all localities where
the prize fight would have been forbid
den by law.-Hartford Times.
Boston and Other Cities.
Unquestionably Mayor Fitzgerald
represents the better side of the case
when he says that the fight pictures
should not he shown in Boston. He
thus expresses a safe and sane senti-
ment that has been fast taking possess
sion of the country ever since the race
riots began last Monday night. In
many cities the question has been def
initely settled by official orders for
bidding the display of the fight pict-
ures. In Texas the question will be
submitted to the Legislature next week,
when that body meets in special ses-
sion, for in the Lone Star State the re-
suits of any color conflict would be es
pecially serious. In Maine exhibitions
of fight pictures have been barred by
law since 1S97.-BOstOn Journal.
Profit In the Pictures.
The men who purchased the moving
picture rights at the prize fight expect
to reap a great harvest Johnson re-
ceived $4,000 for his rights and JEFF
fries succeeded in getting s66,00O for
his. The pictures will be exhibited in
all parts of the world, where no laws
interfere with them. Single states
have been sold for $4,000. The price
asked for cities the size of Cedar Rap
ids is $50 a day. But moving pictures
cannot be exhibited in Iowa, the law
being against it. The majority Of the
states, however, permit of such eXhi-
bitions-Cedar Rapids Republican.