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Show ; NO FIGHT IN SALT LAKE IF "This fight," said Rickard to E. W. Dickerson ' ": of the Denver News, "will be the only big fight : where accommodations will be set aside for la- ' dies (?). My wife will send out invitations to a Y number of the most prominent women. I already know that wives of a number of millionaires are j ; figuring on seeing this battle, and a number of ring side boxes will be set aside for them." ; ' r Mr. Rickard, a word with you. You do not in- ; i i -tend to stage this fight in Salt Lake City. You : i ; have not received the encouragement for which you ' were bidding. Thi9 boast about reserving ring side i , seats for the wives of millionaires may take in Den ver, but you know you dare not make it in Salt Lake City. The millionaires of Utah are men, and when you claim to "know" that their -wives will . ' 1 : ' 1 occupy seats at an exhibition of blood and brutality, you lie. , We "know" that the Governor of Utah will not, I ' in either his private or official capacity, lend his j the debasement of woman or the prostitution of ' ! her sex. We also know that the manhood of this ; . - : state of Utah will not stand for an open insult de- j ; livered against the honor of their state. We be- - lieve that if you brought in even the refuse of Commercial street to applaud your fighters, there are hundreds of manly men right here in our city ! ; who -would throw you and your business into the waters of Salt lake, i : We do not claim to be overrighteous, Mr. Rick- ard. but we do claim to be men who respect woman- ? i hood, and we will not stand for you, or any of your . i ; gang, when you attempt to insult the virtue of our women or pillory our state before the world as a ? ' ; community that has lost its manhood and as a peo-' peo-' , : pie who are dead to all decency and self-respect. ' We are not about to frame a petition to our Gov- ; ernor to bar the presence of women at this fight. ' '- $ i We know him to be a man of honor, to be a man i ' who reverences his wife and daughters, and the sex . to which they belong; and to be a man, who will . t . not, even to oblige you, Mr. Rickard, insult his ' : manhood and lower before the world the flag of the ; ' state which conferred upon him its most distin- '. '. guished honor. If you persevere, Mr. Rickard, in '.-. your contemptible resolution of bringing women to witness the blows and blood of your naked prize- fighters, we tell you now, the fight won't be "pulled : '' off" in Salt Lake City. i . x - |