The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-04
FOURTH DISGRACED
BY BATTLE AT RENO.
Dr. Mcdaniel Wants Christians to Pray That
To-Day's Sun Will Sound Death Knell of
Brutal Sport-Plain Talk on Rich
rnond Conditions
mond Conditions.

This Fourth OF July Will be ma
| tional disgrace. If the good white and
| colorcd people OF this country love
the welfare Of their races, tonight
| they will pray, and tomorrow they
\ will get down on their knees and ask
| God to assuage the passions that VIII
| be aroused by the prize-fght to-mor-
| row, and pray that to-morroWs sun
| will ring the knell of the last prize
| fight on tho American soil" Numbered
Rev. George w. MCDANIEL. %. D., at
the First Baptist Church last night
| while several sepulchral "amens arose
| from the congregation.
"The Fourth will be disgrace, be-
| cause Governor Is neglecting to do
Pwhat we must do In Richnond--name-
! ly. enforce the principle Of right,
| where there Is no specific law" he
| said "If there are situations here
that demand moral reformation, and
there Is no specified statute on the
subject, we must enforce the principle
/ of right.
Principle of Right.
| when it was proposed some years
ago to have prize-fght In Dallas,
| Tex, there being no law against such
! a contest Charles Culberson, then
/ Governor of the State. rose up in HIS
4 might and said: You shan't do It, and
he called an extra session of the Leg
islature. which passed an anti-prize-
lighting law. preventing the proposed
contest. There is another case that
arose in Arkansas. Eagle was Cover
nor then, and he didn't have time to
call an extra session of the Legtsla-
ture He invoked the principle of
/ right, saying. Laws arc but express
/ sions OF the law. Law Is THAI which
4 represents right as against %ropS.
| Laws are but forms through which
right expresses itself. All the author
tiles, from Blackstone down. bear out
such a contention j. therefore. IN
woke the principle of right, and all the
II militia of Arkansas viii support my
decision And there was no prize
fight in Arkansas
THE Governor of California had
neither the principle nor the courage
of these other executives, for he per-
mitted all arrangements to be made.
great sums OF money to DO spent, only
at the last minute TO forbid the hold
ing OF the fight within the State, be-
: cause a Congressman informed him
that to let the fight take place there
might seriously hurt the chances OF
San Francisco in getting the Panama
, Canal Exposition
Suggests Many Remedies.
This reference to the Jehries-Johnson
fight came the climax to sermon
: of nearly an hours length. in which
! Dr. Mcdaniel pointed out some OF the
: remedies which he proposed for the
, cure of present and future moral con-
n ditions in Richmond. a number of
, remedial ordinances were suggested by
4 him.
a THE city, through the Mayor, or
: some other source" he said, could
= EARLY appoint a commission to study
lxt~ a yaoli Di ri
!. laws in regard to the situation. An
= honest commission of competent mer
!. could by this method propose the plan
:, that would be the best
:, "Richmond needs law to prohibit
= gambling, a crap game in private
: places. where the amount involved !:
- less than $40, is not an offense under
> that will cover the situation, prohibit
'e ing gambling anywhere for an,
le amount. The biggest gambling In thi!
10 city is done in the clubs. I have
= heard of stud poker game at on
" of them in recent years whore there
e was a jackpot of $4,000. Some young
le men have been wrecked in this wa,
n and their business broken up or jus
e saved by the sacrifices of friends o.
l. relatives. All clubmen are not gam
blers: some are thoroughly good men
but the good clubmen could easil,
abolish club gambling without harsl
measures. simply by taking firm
81 moral stand in the matter"
II Answers Critics.
BY way of answer to some of tn
"a criticisms made upon his earlier ser
= mons. DR.. Mcdaniel said that he ha
"a left out the nurses and young doc
! tors consideration of whom, 1t ha
y been suggested to him, should hav
N been included in his remarks. I can
not spend all summer taking. up spe
ID cific classes said DR.. Mcdaniel.
5 Some had claimed, he SAID that hi
,ee pictures of city conditions were exag
gerated. An officer of the city Of thir
al ty years standing had written him II
m this connection: You have seen onl
Is part; conditions are much worse tina
ID You describe" DR.. Mcdaniel took oc
or casion to say that his investigation
!. had been undertaken at the reques
- and upon the suggestion of many goo
: men, some of them officers OF the city
all Interested in the moral bettermen
- of the city
- "Some people have said that custom
are changing-and let 1t go at tina
In these changes lies the great DANCE
n that 1 am warming this city abou
Richmond is beginning a new epocl
Now this is u real city, and the al
: IneXation OF Manchester has made j,
/
!, growth there are bound to come til
evils that are Incidental to lars
! I'cIties.''
Defends Picnic.
i After DR.. Mcdaniel had paid his r,
spects to the moving picture shows
i his first sermon on conditions her
some one sent him sheet of paper Z
J. which were pasted side by side an az
vertisement OF a moving picture sho
and OF tho First Baptist Church's SUI
day school picnic last week, with TIL
comment: Take your CHOICE" II tai
: the picnic declared DIR. Mcdaniel. 8
gives free tickets to the Sunday scho
! scholars and the poor. And there's /
& money In it,"
ut is said that my sermons me
hurt Richmond" he went on IT new
h asked for their publication, and di
e claim any responsibility in that dire
ton. AT their request. furnisht
5 synopses of these sermons to the new
papers. si