Show I MORALITY EAST AND WEST When the Nevada legislature passed the act legalizing prizefights the state awoke next morning and found herself her-self famous Her fame in this respect has been followed by almost universal condemnation The press and public of New York have been particularly outraged by the law because the press and public of New York represent the as it must be in politics and morals in America There alone does the Seeley dinner reach full perfection there alone do political bosses who have nothing when they start and do nothing after they have started become be-come millionaires in a comparatively few years The indignation of the New York press and people over the law brings forth somewhat of a defense of Nevada by the Chicago TimesHerald It very truthfully says that the law contemplates i contem-plates nothing more than the legitimizing I legiti-mizing of that which is publicly practiced prac-ticed in New York City I sqys that every Week two or more noted bruisers ire brought together in a hall within earshot of the best people of New York and encouraged to hammer each other for the pleasure of three or four thousand more or less enlightened enlight-ened easterners And this under police supervision and even patronage The TimesHerald concludes by saying that perhaps the people of Nevada simple uncouth with no guide to concrete morality mor-ality but the example of older communities com-munities took New York as a model and not being wise enough to disguise Irize fighting as manly exercise could see no way of achieving culture and refinement except to legalize the crime We have only to say to the Nevadans that it is unsafe to go too far east for guidance in matters of public morality mor-ality tThe The legalizing of prize fighting is to be condemned but after all the question ques-tion arises whether it is any worse to legalize it than to permit it to goon go-on unlegalized I is not unlike the old question whether a sin is a sin if not discovered |