Show AND THE PHARISEE Insanity About a Boxing But Say Nothing About Public Robbery and insanity about a box but nothing to say Bt wholesale publicity and Be-that is what the fight talk preachers and papers to Bis paper thoroughly agrees New York World as to fuss about the prize B recalls how Macaulay Wp spectacle so ridiculous B British in one of its fits of morality but B that Macaulay had never United States of in a death grapple B might think that could be of much less to the American whole than the question B two heavyweight pug-B should be allowed to punch Beer's but not B ordinarily be a case concerning a par-community becomes a f national The B of who has Patching with indifference gyrations for the sud and Washington say that this was due to a tele-Ef RePresentative Ben-New York stating that K moral sentiment ot the probably be against a city as BL r holding the Panama of The moral sentiment of the House of Representatives could restrain itself before all the public graft and bribery and corruption and criminality that have gone unpunished in San It could shut its virtuous eyes to all the things that Ruef represented and all the things that It could read with indifference the chaste San Franciscan sentiment that prosecuting political crooks is bad for But when San Francisco proposes to tolerate a prize-fight the moral sentiment of the House of Representatives reaches out to lock the door of the United States t We are told by an enthusiastic clergyman that more than letters have gone to Gillett during the last few weeks protesting against horrible example to the- manhood of the as much moral fervor can be aroused in regard to matters that have vital relation to the welfare of the American respectable in time may come to have as much concern about the brutality and barbarism ot sweat shops and child for as about the brutality and barbarism of a Preachers every where have been denouncing the them have denounced of but how many the sugar weighing or the Panama or the tariff frauds whereby the American people are robbed by thousands of corporations that are selling more cheaply abroad than in this or the high cost of living as far as it is directly produced by tariff or the building of worthless These and other great evils the preachers and many of the newspapers dare not denounce simply because the real keepers of their consciences the protected corporations won't let But the prize-fight a manly without much real danger in it they shout themselves hoarse in Just as Congress and almost the whole nation once went wild over the fact that a Tew of the leading Mormons had more than one wife and honorably supported each while every city in the land contained ten times more immorality than Mormon polygamy could even after reckoning every case of polygamy the worst possible form of social so the preachers and newspapers of today make clean the outside of the while within there is corruption that they will not or dare not Religious journals especially are denouncing the fight and bestowing unmerited praise upon California's weather cock but these papers are not denouncing the tariff though now they whatever they once may have that it is the fraud and robbery ever devised by Some of them have not yet dared to denounce the sugar weighing thefts and simply because these thefts of millions upon millions were committed by one of the pets of the Out upon such Away with such preachers and We have every respect for all good people who are opposed to prize-fighting because they regard it as but have no respect for editors and preachers who denounce this manly if rough sport while keeping silent like the hypocrites they upon rne greater matters of justice and public They strain out the gnat and swallow They bear with and even conceal or the crimes of high the extravagance of billion dollar the responsibility of public laws for high cost of the white slave and locally the the American city and so while the thought of a boxing contest stirs their little souls to the depths of their emotional and |