Death in a San Francisco Prize Fight
On the night of April 26, a man was killed in a prize fight in San Francisco. For reasons which it is unnecessary to state, one of the parties to a fight, which had been announced to take place, failed to put in an appearance, and as the secular papers tell the story, "bankers, brokers, lawyers, doctors, men from all the professions and fresh from the Jackson-Cardiff fight, crowded the café and boxes, and, flushed with wine, yelled lustily for a fight." To meet the demand, the manager of the affair induced a young man to take the place of the absent pugilist, and in a few minutes the substitute was dead, killed instantly by a blow over the heart, to gratify the brutal instincts of "bankers, brokers, lawyers, men from all the professions," in the city of San Francisco. In what respect is a civilization which tolerates such things better than that of Rome two thousand years ago?