Show THE NATIONAL question of the hour is whether Slade and Mitchell will fight This has practically become be-come an international question fort for-t seems that the fight has been arranged ranged to take place in Mexico Its It-s almost a pity that these burly brutes can not be permitted to maul each other anywhere and upon sight We could almost wish they walld be hurried together And if tl heir fists are not hard enough to answer the purpose of mallets for hammering each other to jelly provide pro-vide them with sledgehammers Indian clubs or any other couven ient effective weapons with which to settle the business The way the authorities are hunting the business down to prevent the fight smacks of downright cruelty to two ambitious examples of physical manhood It has the appearance of interfering with the natural rights of individuals and forcing them to want Mitchell and Slade are utteily worthless unless they can fight deprive them of this privilege privi-lege and you force them to starvation starva-tion or what is worse compel them to laborsomething that no reputable reputa-ble pugilist will ever stoop to If the States do not quit this cruel pur suit of the maulers government should interfere to protect these noble no-ble guests of a foreign nation in the inalienable right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness |