Show THE MEDDLER'S There is a certain so-called religious class of people in the United States that have periodical attacks of meddlers' These attacks do not often come unless it will hurt the other Last week it was an attack on a prize this-week it is against the moving pictures that will show it to all who could not go to The meddlers always wait till great preparations are made and thousands of dollars have been spent before they start their crusade so that the injury they can do their fellowman will be the As long as football is tolerated where hundreds of the bright young men are killed or maimed every as long as six day races of all kinds that tax and torture the human body for six consecutive days are allowed when will stand in a pulpit twice every Sunday and then hold a matinee every Wednesday night and kill or mentally maim the whole human race ty holding them over a Christian everlasting burning as has been done during the past we cannot see much harm in showing the Johnson-Jeffries Although the whole world was made a mad house by preachers who went up and down the country terrorizing the people over the lake of those preachers were not squelched by petitions to the mayors and governors or prohibitive statutory but by the gradual growth of intelligence of the Fifty years ago the man or woman who denied the existence of a bottomless pit the other side of was almost an outcast of- Back in the other century there arose a Thomas and then came Joseph Star Robert Henry Ward Beecher and others who denied that the Bible taught everlasting These men had many followers and by the gradual taking on of intelligence his Satanic Majesty and his has been cast out without statutory If there is anything will make a person sick and disgusted with prize fighting it will be to look at the Johnson-Jeffries It was not Johnson that whipped it was indolence and his mode of living that counted him out long before he entered the Six years ago Jeffries was the greatest specimen of physical manhood in the world and if he had lived rightly and thought rightly he would have been Johnson's master Physical manhood may be able to defend itself against the blows of prize fighters for many but the man who can smoke drink carouses and is indolent and win in any physical or mental contest is yet to be A Sick The most dejected and disgusted bunch of humanity that ever assembled on Salt Lake's streets was seen in front of the Herald-Republican office last Monday listening to the fight America's great pugilistic idol was being easily shattered by the effects of cigarettes and a big And the returning Salt Lakers who spent their time and money to see the great looked like something the cat has brought but could not If you desire to make the whole human race disgusted with prize show the Johnson-Jeffries give the all the honors and close the |