The Washington bee., 1910-08-06
HIS RACE.
The Big Fight.
(By Page A. Cochran, Koreshan.) |
To the Editor of The Bee.

(By Page A. Cochran, a Koreshan.)
To the Editor of The Bee.
The great significance of the John
sOn-J efries fight is not, and doubtless
cannot be, cOmprehended by only
few people at the present time
- In conversing on important topics,
a lady in this city was kind enough
to inform me a few days ago that I
do not understand the situation" 1
am of that makeup that | would want
to cease all such conversation with
her, and in my ignorance and stupid
ity, honor her dignity, her knowledge,
her wisdom, by my humble silence,
and let her take her medicine drain
the cup to the very dregs and then
drink those, and find that there are
merely few dTegs in the bottom, but
that if is filled with dregs (fallacy
and error to the very brim, which
sometimes seems necessary; but a
steam power is necessarily supplied
with safety valve" so, like Henry
Ward Beecher, | find some satisfac-
ton letting off steam"
Against the mighty tide of popu-
larity | declared that Johnson would
win. l reasoned it out, as l thought,
on logical and scientific ground. l
tried to show it to several gentle
men, so they would not lose their
money; but they could not be shown
until Johnson landed his Knockout
blow.
1 may be sporty, but I am not
sport. l never followed the sport
ing news. l never put up IS cents
on any bet. But here is the way l
figured:
The same conditions, so far as I
have noticed, between the fighters and
the public exist that have existed
when every great champion pugilisi
has beet whipped The winner was
the smaller man. He was quite uni
versally considered the weaker man;
the betting world was against him.
The thought-force and sympathy and
friendship of the masses Numerically
considered in the natural" world
was against him. Also, the colored
race is a rising race, and they are
going to continue to rise, and nothing
can stop them. Their destiny in an
early fusion and amalgamation with
the white race is to form a most po-
tent factor in bringing about a new
order of things, radical change in all
departments of human relationship.
Such is the inevitable, and God AL
mighty will continue His work regard
less of what the Christian" world,
grOveling in the slime of hades, may
think or say or do. Conditions must
cOnspire to attract the thought and
attention of the world to the coIored
race. There must be a first time"
for great white champion to be
whipped Tin more ways than one, too)
by negro, and that time is now ripe,
regardless of a civilization" that
thinks itself wise, and regarless of
their thinking themselves so superior
morally to the colored people.
The fact is the colored people are
just as good religiously and morally
as the white race of to-day. and are
fast rising to their level intellectually:
and all the self-conceit and hypocrisy
and prejudice that so much of the
white race are generating will not
stop the work of Providence. HE
ye to the wooded haunts of the col
Ored race in their native regions! and
you will find them ten times better
morally than their intellectual superb
ors in civilization" but as fast as
they are civilized" and Christian
lied" they begin as a rule to absorb
all the corruption and hypocrisies of
Christendom. And all this talk about
such things setting the negroes up so
there IS no getting along with them,
and all that kind of thing, will count
for naught-the work will move right
along. According to what l am told
by one who claims to know (and he