The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-04
Mr.. DooLey 81,
|" The Burning Issue
It's Not III: Tariff. Although You Might Think
tilt S 'sWill Jeffries Fight
the Smoked"
the Smoker

dint to proclaim . day ~ Ein'ral fast
| Ing an humiliation. Let Us 60 sober
1 ~ about our daily jooties, thrustin' to
IN destiny that has guided IN white
race 80 long. An, above all. let us I'M
re ss'e 1s tn example ~ our lpeeriss. lead
solve not to fight John johnson ontn
we are ready. l. fr wan. Hinnissy,
win do my part.
'wsii. sir, tits q tur-rbie thing that
this shud've happened just at tn
time vhin I thought tn example Nv
1 York had done its wurruk. thought
tn wurru1d had been reformed In i've
4 minyits an human nature was mo-
more gotn' to be what 1t has always
been. but something 90 refined that
In q little while tn toughest Nv us
wud be iivins tn pure an simple life
" q canary bur-rd In q gilded cage.
But last week, Hinnissy. I dhreamed
that tn goidens ezra had set in. as
Hogan says. whin ye. an ! wud spind
our avenins croshayfn' tidies together
Today picked up tn pa-apers an tn
on'y thing in THIN worth readtn' Is
accounts Nv combats between brutes
In human form. This last winter. Ha.
gan jined Q class to hear lectures
wanst q week firm Professor Aiphonso
Gfifeather Nv tn; School ~ Thought.
1 entitled. Tn Progress iv Civilization
To'rds More Lady-like Ideels.' Twas
HoEan's custom to come In here az
Their tn lecture an tell me about it.
There's no use taikin'.' says he, mani
Kind has made gr-reat sthrides since
tn days whin all disputes were set
tied be resort to arms he says, an
/ whin tn naked savage .slarmed his
! fellowman with stone Ratchet or q
club. TIL day " brute foorce mas
| gone by he says. Well, sir. last
night happened to be passin' by Null.
cahy's Lyseena an II was lighted up
4 an tn polls were havin' hard time
keepfn' tn crowd back an, thinks to
mestlf. This must be meetin' Nv tn
Ethical Culture Society," an whit in.
i Ye can judge Nv me surprise, Einnissy,
whtn found that II was price
/ fight. TIL crowd behind me was so
dense that 1t was impossible to escape
4 so ] made tn best Nv tn situation an
allowed mesilf to be forced near enough
to tn ring side to need an umbrella
between rounds. While was medi-
j tatin on tn disgraceful nature Nv tn
exhibition an firm time to time adj
visfn' wanfiv tn wretches, fine-iook.
In la-ad firm Tipperary with as good
. right hand as I iyer see. to sind it
over heerd a. shrek In me ear. Give
IT to him. TIL right. Tn right. Up
percut him. Oh, but that was pip
pin. Stay him while We have him, ye
fflat-footed stone-thrower firm Clon-
mel. looked around an loi and be-
holdi there was tn frind Nv Peace.
What are we dom here at this ojous
lecturer saws l. There as ai NJ "a amy M
lecture says he. swhat'n Professor
Guifeather say to yer says /. He
won't say anny-thing,' says he. That's
/ him over In Battling Peterson's cor
ner. on'y larned tn other day that
he was wanst amachoor light-we Jyht
4 champeen Nv Ioway University. He's
he may come back, says Hogan.
well. there We are, Hinnissy. I
suppose civilization Is failure, but
thin civilization always has been a
failure. as far back as can raymim-
Der. I niver yet knew TIL time whin
Il firm thin that wud lead 1t UP to
higher an. better things an .runnin'
into th' back yard 10 play In tn mud"
Il ""ris q brutal sport. prize fight
I'M" said Mr.. Hennessy.
We'll" said Mr.. Dooiey. there amt
annythipg very ennoblfn' to tn spec
tator Ia amy form Nv human employ
mint. II We think I am improved in
me mind an morals be seein' We pushfn'
n wheelborraw up gangway on q hot
u summers afternoon. We ought to see
ye'ersilf dom IL, that's all. injye
tn spectacle but 1t don't ilivate me
none at all. Sure tn prize-fghter's
i life looks to me to be fairly happy
I wan. If he's amy good at all he don't
fight more than waiist a month an
thin half tn time he don't fight. II
annywan offered We fifty thousand doll
lars to let Jim Jeffries hit We wanst
ye'd put tn money where tn family
cud use 1t In case Nv ye'er decease an
preslnt ye'er face. FER ten thousand
4 added money ye'd give him leave to
Il use an Indyan club. What cud be a
safer or more honorable prohssyon FIR
n young man to enter. In tn old days
twas diffrent. Thin a prize fighter
had to wurruk fr Twin an poor
iivin It was. He was called Jem. he
\ was patrunized be a Jock an he whit
into tn ring Nv o Choosdah mornin'
an niver come out till Satuhdah night
He fought with nArthin' on his hands
an whln he got through tn only way
We cud tell he had face.at all was be
obsarvin' that 1t was opposite to TIL
back iv his head. IN his declinin'
years he kept a tavern that tn look
give him. They were tn gr-reat boys
in thin days. An be hivens. too.
Hinnissy. too, as Hogan says, have
lived among joynts. Think iv thin
grand old heroes Nv our time. Sayres
that fought Johnny Heenan with a
hrnir an n nm all fhrourh an afth arnonn