Show THE SUliUYAN CASE There are Other and Greater Evils than PrizeFigliting EUtEXA TINTIO May 10 1883 Editors Herald Your correspondent is as much surprised by the publication of his communicaticnin the HERALD as by its notice in the Tribune This no doubt is due to the fact that tlThre is no very absorbing newspaper news-paper topic at present and anything will do for a diversion He regrets to see however that the an t Sull1 van man has descended to personalities After reproving re-proving the JHERALD which he says is a religious paper for publishing an article so antagonistic to popular sentiment sent-iment he intimates that the HERALD correspondent is a little on the shoulder himself Wrong The outcome of a few extempore efforts indicates a constitutional unfitness un-fitness He insinuates that that person is given to stimulants Well if ones organization is so delicate that a certain amount of beer is essential es-sential to keep it in whack is it generous to advert to that circumstance circum-stance Is it magnanimous to noise it around to incorporate it in a popular melody 1 No 1 It would almost appear that in the heat of controversy there were danger dan-ger that some of the literati forget they are gentlemen I for one enjoy their theories and speculations and imagery too much to in the smallest wittingly contribute contri-bute to such a disaster I hope 1 can agree with him without with-out offenco He says prize fighting fight-ing is not elevating A prize fight is a disgusting exhibition but is it more repulsive than those engaged in by the students of Heidelberg who think it an honor to be disfigured disfig-ured for life in their duels who engage en-gage in them with the sanction of tho faculty i and I believe custom has made it obligatory I Why do the head men of one of the first institutions of learning in Europe endorse ouch a system War is not refining but there are men who claim that the hard knocks attending at-tending it improve a people He says the English are a lawbreaking law-breaking people I should acquiesce Tho AngloSaxon race has been breaking laws ever since it was one For instance take that crowd that settled Massachusetts They were scouring berore they came there kept breaking the Jaw refused to pay taxes destroyed property and eventually precipitated a war in which there were a good many pretty good men killed and wounded It is a lawbreaking race but the predominant one for all that This lawbreaking comes from combativeness and combativeness combative-ness is a prime motor in civilization civiliza-tion It is this attribute which impels men to ford rivera and climb mountains and voluntarily accept hardship which if imposed on the convicts of any civilized country would make Christendom howl He should not reproach the HERALD HER-ALD for being a religious newspaper news-paper for does not the Tribune give us the proceedings of Conference in season But weare losing sight Sullivan who Is in his way a national character char-acter I am pleased to find that the Tribunes chief affection to him is his silence This imputation will also apply to Gem Grant and this is enough about it Of course prizelighting is aa evil and the man who advocates it has but the small end of it but in suppressing sup-pressing it Is it not possible that other and greater ones may replace itFrank Frank James waa shot dead here last night in a drunken quarrel H |