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Show ' the utmost their physical strength and skill under the open and honorable hon-orable rules of the ring. We would come away with some new enlightened en-lightened understanding of the dynamio force which is concentrated in the body and brain of man. "But. there are vile entertainments in every city of the east yes, and of that newly regenerated California, too from whence . comes ;these moral protests, which a Nevadan would be ashamed to witness, knowing they were tolerated by the churches, and by the preachers, and by the highly moral officials of the state and town. These eastern and far western dens of vice in the shadow of aristocratic aristo-cratic churches are the spots where boys are made unfit to enter the prize ring or any other arena where manly and moral qualities are required "Sickly sentimentality has ever been mistaken for righteousness, and weakly uttered platitudes from church platforms have lulled millions of souls to the stupor of self righteousness from which they seldom emerge to do manly and Christian service to the socially weak. The elect, being elected, feed on faith, and let the rest go to hell. So how will a prize fight hurt us in Nevada and what harm will it do the hypocritical idlers and meddlers in the effete ministerial as-socations as-socations of the east? "Is not Nevada the only spot in the union where men can be brave and free, without going away from home, where none worship wor-ship the fetish of respectability, where all write thir real names in the hotel register, where saloonkeepers are welcome at Sunday school picnics, where social shams are smothered by flourishing common sense, where men go to prize fights as Taf t goes to a ball game without with-out donning a disguise "These good people of Chicago and New York and San Francisco Fran-cisco think we are so untamed and rowdyish and tough,. Let them come to Nevada, and, like the women of Carthage, they would soon inquire, 'Where are the ravishers?' " An Eastern writer, a visitor in Reno, commenting on the editorial, edi-torial, says: "I wish the governor and the judge with whom I talked were as frank and outspoken a3 these newspapers. We might hope that the last spot on the map where life is free and vigorous and elemental element-al might remain so indefinitely. "No; the prize fight must go. It is tainted with the primitive man. We are becoming a nation of parasites, and fuddlers, bunco steerers and swashbucklers, sycophants, hypocrites and neuters." Evidently there is no compromise between the two forces, represented rep-resented on the one side by the ministers and on the other by the men of athletic mind-In mind-In name-calling, we would award the contest to the Nevada papers, pa-pers, as their reply is filled with terms of denunciation which the ministers cannot hope to equal in opprobriousness. INCIDENTAL TO THE PRIZE FIGHT. A number of the ministers in the East, having branded Nevada as an outlaw state, have provoked a reply from the Reveille of Austin, Aus-tin, Nevada, which, in an editorial of considerable force, makes this retort: "If Governor Dickerson or any other man in authority in Nevada Ne-vada allows the hypocritical deluge of postal cards from mollycoddle ministers and anaemic maidens of the east to cause him to raise an objection in this state, then we will accept the verdict recently passed upon us by a Chicago paper and admit that Nevada morals are in decadence. "Bribe takers do not elect United States senators in Nevada as they do in Illinois. Children are not made to toil in Nevada, but they are murdered in mines and sweatshops in those 'moral' states of the east which are too exquisite to allow a prize fight. "The white slaves of Chicago and Cincinnati and San Francisco deserve more attention from the Glory to God clubs than is needed by dwellers in the plains and hills of this state. ''Out here we can see a man punched in the face without thinking think-ing that the divine countenance from which man is imaged has been profaned. ' But we cannot behold an eastern tenement and believe there is a just man or a minister of God in the same city. "We in Nevada would like to see Jeffries and Johnson test to |