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Show CARDIXAL GIUBOXS. Favors Baltimore Movement to Suppress Sup-press Fight Pictures. Cardinal Gibbons expressed himself heartily In accord with the movement inaugurated In Baltimore to prevent the exhibition of the prize fight pictures. pic-tures. He said: "If the pictures of this contest were permitted in Baltimore, I am sure hundreds of children would see them, and what would be the result? Their morals would not only be contaminated, contaminat-ed, but they would have the wrontr ideal of a true hero. "After seeing the pictures a boy would naturally infer that the real American hero was a man besptatered with blood and with a swollen eye given to him by . another in a fistic encounter. The boy would go and try to do likewise. This would be a sad state of affairs. It is the children chil-dren ' who will be most seriously affected af-fected by these pictures if they are allowed to be exhibited here, and I for one will be pleased to hear they have been absolutely forbidden in Baltimore. "Any picture that might be shown or this encounter would have a bad effect on the men and women of the community also. A crowd of men would go into one of these picture places and when they saw the colored col-ored man beat the white man their blood would naturally rise. They would be so enraged that they would want to make an attack on the black people whom they might meet. "It would not be well to stir up any race feeling in our city at present, or indeed at any time. The fight and the consequences are things of the past, and let them remain so. The black people would not profit from seeing these pictures, and I am sure the whites would not." |