Show PUT IT DOWN day furnishes reasons by a rigid enforcement of law fang should be relegated wy ry of the lost arts S k decidedly imitative animal originality being a scarce ingredient of his bis composition As a consequence whenever an exhibition of brutality occurs in the shape of a couple of professional fighters pounding each others face into a jelly putting out their best beet efforts to burst each others eyes and knock the wind out of one oae an others lungs the disgusting event is followed by hundreds of other similar scenes all over the country A wave of brutality sweeps over the nation and no locality is exempt from it peaceful utah not even being excepted hence heince the small scalo scale fights that have lately occurred here it will be observed from this view that in n its eff effects acts such a disgraceful contest as that in which sullivan and kilrain engaged is far reach lug ing in the multiplication of evil hence the offense of the principals and their alders and abettors abet tors is of a most aggravated character and should be so treated the climax of results was reached in the mill between two youths in st louis on monday night resulting in the death of one of the combatants this case has in it the elements of murder and should be so treated under t he law itis it is a matter ametter for congratulation that the example set by sullivan and kilrain has not alone resulted in imitation the course pursued by the governor of mississippi has also been followed in the active prosecution se of participants in those savage contests between human brutes although doubtless largely due to the operation of the imitative faculty it is to be hoped that this leap in the direction of putting down a relic of barbarism is no mere transitory spasm of virtue but founded in a sincere desire to put down a flagrant wrong locally speaking the result of the initiatory proceedings taken against the parties who participated in the lake park prize ring encounter will speak loudly in this direction if the matter is allowed to drop through or to fall fail at any point then to use a phrase frequently applied to prize ring matters the movement in relation to the enforcement of the laws may be justly viewed as a mere hippodrome the people of this country read with wonder and to a large extent disgust about spanish bull fights which are conducted in this broadly enlightened age they belong to a grovelling gro velling brutish class clam of entertainments tain ments showing that professedly civilized peoples have not yet emerged from revolting forms of savagery in this thi a na nation ti on we ta take ke this view of this peculiarly spanish practice but the consistency of this criticism on the part of a people amongst whom exists a practice not a whit higher from any standpoint Is i decidedly invisible |