The Boston Post - Thursday, May 23, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
MOTTO:
With a Mission
AND
Without a Muzzle.
THE QUEENSBERRY ROW.
The appearance of the Marquis of Queensberry and his son in a London police court under arrest as participants in a street fight is an incident throwing a strong side light on aristocratic life in England.
That peers of the realm should conduct themselves in an unseemly manner in public is nothing new. That they should fight in the streets and be brought before a police court is not an unknown thing. But that the brawlers should be father and son is a circumstance which gives this incident an unusual distinction.
American society, which in some quarters apes the manners and fashions of England, has not yet reached the point when such a thing as this is possible. Nor is it likely that it will soon do so; for which we may be thankful.