Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1890 — NO MORE BULL FIGHTS. [ARTICLE]

NO MORE BULL FIGHTS.

A Mexican Prediets That This SporS Will Soon be Bxtlnct. "Within a year or two there will be no bull fights in the land of sun and flowers.” Senor Luis Padro said this in the hearing of a Tribune reporter in a Chicago hotel. Coming from a Mexican the statement seemed remarkable. Senor Padro is the owner of a paper in the Mexican Republic, and for two years ho has been struggling to abolish the sport t>f bull fighting. At last he has secured supporters, and they are going to kill the bull fighting or die in the attempt. "W r e have been so successful,” said Senor Padro, "that in the Legislature of lalisoo the discussion was recently made the order of the day, That would have been impossible a year ago. While we are progressing so rapidly in every way it would be sinful not to speak of this important question. Bull fighting produces naught but pleasure. Tfc evidences no manhood and shows a d. generate organism. The* people of Mexico crown their bull fighters and yet don’t know the names of their greatest heroes. "The time has arrived when the people of my land can enjoy themselves without acting like savages. I not only talk like this in the United States, but in my own country I am continually scoring the people. They know my sentiments. I argue that their moral sense is perverted, and they need the law to bring them back In the proper path. We expect to stop these brutal exhibitions by the Legislature and so far we are assured of considerable support. Mexico without a bull fight would seem odd. but that ia exactly what we are coming to.”