is usually experienced by prize fighters in finding a
place where they can fight unmolested must have been apparent to all,
and _The Sun_ would suggest a way out of the difficulty.

Let the government set apart a portion of the public domain, near some
military post, and enact a law that prize fighting shall be no more
unlawful than polygamy, or stealing from the government. If prize
fighters can have the same immunity from arrest and punishment that
polygamists and defaulters have, it is all they ask, and it seems not
unreasonable to ask it.

Certainly a prize fighter in whipping a friend to raise money to support
one wife and one set of children, when the other fellow is willing to
take the chances of being whipped, is not as bad as a praying old cuss
who marries from twenty to forty feeble minded females and raises a
flock of narrow headed children to turn loose after a while, with not
much more brain than goslings.

If two men want to go out and enjoy "life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness," by mauling each others faces, why should they be pulled, and
let an official who steals half a million dollars from the government,
give a New Year's reception? The thing does not look right to a man who
believes that this is a free country, and that every man is endowed with
certain inalienable rights, among which is the right to pay his debts.

Another thing, the government, if it decided to set apart certain ground
for prize fights, might create the office of "referee," and appoint
some honest, square man, who applied for a consulship and there was no
vacancy, to the position, with a good salary. What prize fighters
need is a referee that can be depended on, and it would be no worse to
appoint a government referee than it would to give breech loading arms
and ammunition to Indians to go on the war-path with.

Prize fighting does not do any harm. If one of the principals is
killed, which does not often occur, the government is so much ahead. The
government would furnish the poison if Mormons would kill themselves.
Why not furnish prize fighters an opportunity to climb the golden
stairs? The fact of it is, as a people we oppose prize fighting because
it is "brutal," and we go to a wrestling match where men hurt themselves
twice as much as they would if they stood up and knocked each other
down. We cry out against prize fights, and yet a majority of the male
population would walk ten miles to see a prize fight when they