The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-04-03
BY r. p. Dunno

iiot " HsHt J0hn johnson ontn we are
ready /. for wan. Hennissy. win do
my part.
well sir, It's a tur-rble thing that
ms snud,ve happened just at tn time
Wnin | thought tn example III such
men as Gov'nor Huges iy New York
nad done its wurruk I@thought tn
Wurruld had been reformed in Ave
mlnyits an human nature was no
more goin' to be what IL has ALWAYS
peen but something SO refined that in
little while tn toughest iv us wud
be Twin tn ure an simple life iv i
canary bur-rd in gilded cage. But
last week, Hinnissy, dlnreamed that
tn golden ezra had set in, as Hogan
| says, whfn We an / wud spind our
avenins croshayin' tides together. To-
| DAY | pick up tn pa-apers an tn only
| thing In thin worth readirl' is accounts
| ~ combats between bfutes in human
form This last winter. Hogan lined a
class to hear lectures wanst a week
rom Professor Alpfonso GilfeatEer "
Tn school iv Thought entitled: The
| FRO gress Nv Civilization lords more
lady like Tdeels.' Twas Hogan's Gus
tom to come in here afther tn lecture
an tell me about 1t, There's no use
talkin,', says he, mankind has made
gr-reat sthrides since tn DAYS whin
| all disputes were settled be resort to
arms, he says, an tn naked savage
slammed his fellow man with a stone
hatchet or club. TIL day iv brute
foorce has gone by he says. Well.
sir, last night happened to be passin
py Milcahy's Lyceem an it was light
ed up an tn polls were havin "a hard
time keepin' tn crowd back an. thinks
to mesilf, This must be a rneetin'
Nv tn Ethical Culture society," an /
whit in. Ye can Judge Nv me surprise,
Hinnissy, whin / found that 1t was e.
prize fight TIL crowd behind be was
so dense that it was impossible to es-
| scape SO | made tn best iv tn situation
an allowed mesiIf to be forced near
enough to tn ring side to need an UNI
brella between rounds. While / was
meditatin' on tn disgraceful nature Nv
tn exhibition an firm time to time
advisin' wan iv tn wretches, fine
lookin' la-ad from Tipperary with as
good right hand as liver see, to sind
1t over, I heerd a shrek in me ear:
Give 1t to him. TIL right. TIL right.
Uppercut him. Oh, but that was a
pippin. Stay him while We have him,
We stone -tbrower firm Clonmel' I
! looked around an 10 an beholdl
there was TIL frind of peace. What are
We dom here at this ojous AFFAIR." says
l. Why aren't We at tn lecture? says
l. There amt amy lecture says he.
What'll Professor Gulfeather say to
We? says /, He won't say anything,
says he. That's him over in Battling
Peterson's corner. / only learned tn
other day that he was wanst amachoor
light weight chanpeen Nv Ioway Uni
varsity. He's gone into thrainin'
again an he thinks he may come
back says Hogan
We'll there We are Hinnissy. I sup
pose civilization is d failure, but thin
civilization always has been a fail
ure, as far back as can raymimber.
never yet knew tn time whin human
nature wasn't tearin' away from thin
that wud lead 1t up to higher an
betther things an runnin' into tn
back yard to play in tn mud" Ks
"Tis brutal spoort. prize-fightin',''
said Mr.. Hennessy.
We'll" said Mr.. Dooiey there amt
anything very ennoblfn' to tn spec
tator in amy form Nv human employ
mint, If We think I am improved in.
me mind an morals be seem We push
in wheelbarrow up a gangway on
hot summers afternoon, We ought to
see yeersNf doin' 1t, that's all. I in
I'VE tn spectacle but 1t don't ilivate
me none at all. Sure tn prize lighters
, life looks to me to be fairly happy
wan. If he's amy good ait all he
don't fight more than wanst a month
an thin half tn time he don't fight
If annywan offered We fifty thousand
dollars to let Jim Jeffries hit We wanst
ye'd put til money where tn family
cud use ii in case iv ye'er decease an
presint ye'er face. Err ten thousand
added money ye'd give him leave to
use an Indyan club. What cud be a
safer or more hon'rable profissyon FIR
young man to enter. In the old days
twas diffrent Thin a prize tighter
had to wurruk FIR Twin an poor
Twin IL was. He was called Jem, he
was pathrunized be jock an he whit
into tn ring iv Choosdah mornin'
an niver come out till Saturdah night.
He fought with nawtfin' on his hands
an wrin he got through tn only way
We cud tell he had a face at all was
be obsarvin' that 1t was opposite to tn
bck iv his head. In his declinin' years
he kept a tavern that tn jocks give to
him. They were tn gr-reat boys In
thin days. An be hivens. too. Hin
missy, too. as Hogan says, have lived
among joynts. Think Nv thin grand
old heroes Nv our time. Savers that
fought JOHN Heenan with a broken
arm all through an Afternoon, an Jim
Mace, tn Gypsy. an Tom Allen m
John Morrissey that was a turror in
his day but didn't keep in good con-.
dition an become a congressman. An
thin, tn best ~ thin all. Jawn L.
Sullivan. That great warryor Is with.
us still. I'm glad to say. There was
fighter, Hinnissy. He didn't care
who he licked. He licked everybody
firm tn barber that shaved him tn
wrong way to tn Oregon Joynt, that
slew oxen with wan punch. Ye niver
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