El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-03
MINISTER AsSAILs AMERICANS FOR
PATR0AIZIHG THE BULL FIGHTS
Also Thinks the Permit Issued by the Chief Of Police For
Bull Fight Parade in Ell Paso Is Ground For Action
Against the Chief-Appeals to People to Elect
Officers Who Will Enforce the Laws

Last evening, Rev. R. T. Hanks. D. D.,
pastor of the Calvary Houston Square
! Baptist church, gave a prOlOg before de-
I HveTIng his sermon, and 1t ran somewhat
as follows:
After bein0 requested by a man Of the
world, who makes no pretensiOns to be
mo a Christian, to express myself to-
night on the performance IN JuareZ this
afternoon, l do not feel at liberty to
keep quiet There, YOU know, a bull
and an elephant were to be turned lose
IN the bull ring to fight to the death,
and this was the special attraction for
Americans to patrOnize that brutal per-
Torrance OF course, with the Mexican
end Of that affairs we have nothing to
do Tor there Is no possible way by which
We can influence the powers that be
over there to do the decent thing, but
there are two phases OF the performance
that are strictly American, ana Texan,
and with that we do have our respOn-
sibility.
"That performance IN Juarez was ad-
yertised In FL PasO BY two street pa
rades. This was in open and fragrant
violation of law, and vet it was BY spe-
cIal permit. L am credibly told that the
chief Of police issued that permit. And
also I am told that his excuse for issuing
the permit was that he did not know
1t was contrary to law. 1 notice that
after he found Out that II was ILLEGAL
he did not withdraw his permit. A per
init TO do an Illegal thing IS void and
the people who acted upon 1t, and the
man who issued it, are subject to prose
cutiOn. We viii see whether these viola
tors of the law are brought to JUsticel
There are two phases of this dis
graceful JuareZ performance for which
we FL PasOans are responsible. One Is.
the allowance Of the parades in adVer-
tlsement OF the thing IN our city. The
performance itself was IN 3 foreign cOun-
ery-Of course. we could not stop that
but the advertisement of it by a parade
on our streets was our affair, and was
by special permit Of our supposed repre-
sentative. For that we do have our re-
spOnslbilIty- l am told the permit was
issued because the chief did not know
the law. Well, his underlings know the
law about the larger matters of how a
man shall hitch his horse; of a mans not
being permitted to trOt across the tri-
angle by the plaza; Of a mans having
to paw to get his horse out of the pound,
and about all such great matters but
when it comes 70 the little matter of
the promoters of a dlsgTaceful and brutal
performance in a foreign country, the
chief himself does not know the law.
Why should he?
There are two WAYS We Ell PasOans
should act about this matter. In the
first place we should exert our influ-
ence to keep people from pstrOnizing so
brutal and disgraceful a performance.
Why should a man OF a woman want to
see a thing like that2 A poor blind
folded lOny gored until his entrails drag;
q brute murdered by a still more british
mhuman; the flow Of the blood of a
brute. Now IS that not a spectacle to !
entice a civilized human?
Il was years ago at the table of I
prominent FL PasO physician, and -hern /
was magazine writer woman /
there, and also a man from Washington