Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1910-08-05
Gath on the Fight.

ielieT 10 u DosLOn newspaper tledto al
satarical length upon the recent prize
fight at Reno end takes up the cudgel
in behalf Of the black champion and
his race as follows:
AS the down-trodden negro made
the victory, I would now be absurd 10
celebrate the negro's first social sue
cess with a national conclusion of
prize fighting.
Let the amiabe dog have another
chance, and The beaten Caucasians
their noble revenge. / say social sue
cess, because the miners were tolerant
both of Mr.. and Mrs. johnson, and
moody robbed them Of the stakes.
1t was better than burning them
alive or cenfiscating their winnings.
Their colored clergy joined the army
of human nature by praying for their
man, who also has mothers blessing.
Jack johnson is better man than
largenious senators.
On the whole. the prize fight was a
good example TO business, where an
invisible trust undercuts the inofen-
sive customer If Mr.. johnson tack
les Wall street they will have his en-
trails. Every time he enters bath
tub the trust therein skins him.
The governor of Nevada did not ac.
cede to the moral expectations that be
would open the fight with prayer
Women were there, having had good
training in the divorce courts. Women
who read about the fight were also
there in soul.
The prelude to female suffrage is
where the Roman gladaIors ended,
before female audiences. The priest of
the day ran between tie gladiators
and got his death. Now, the COM
mereial system takes up collection.
The way TO stop prize fighting is to
match Mr. Johnson against the whole
pugllistic brood and let him lick them
all, even if they are ''not in my caste
or Glass;
Instead ofJohnson's victory making
mischief, | believe it will calm the
colored race, make them believe In law
anc fairness and disparage the law of
pugilism, George Dixon, Joe Cans,
Peter Jackson preceded Jack johnson.
Was it Bendigo who let England see
black boxer.
The prize fight in Nevada proves
that we are no nation, but a bundle of
satrapies. take up the white mans
BURDEN means that white men need
fight no more. The south has had one
complete victory.
The "black belt" is the champions
belt. VIII the humanity of the clergy
aroused by pictures of a past prize fight
now eliminate hell, with its eternal
inhumanities?
When hear the awful bowls of the
clergy over "the water will never grind
with the mill that is pa sed."
L bethink me Of the first prize fight |
ever heard of, the name of which faith
er was Methodist minister AT one
OF his appointments on the circuit
called Weston, two steamboats, of men
landed in the snow, staked ring and
fought. Thomas Hyer walloped James,
or Yankee, Sullivan.
My father did not drag the rrlze
fight into his pulpit, out let it go into
the things of human nature, and he
forgot. He afterwards told me that
Rev. DIR. William Allen, of Girard col
lege, said he always ran to see fight,
as 1t eXnlllrated his David and Goliath
Gature. Rev. Peter Cartwright sinnersI
with his fists. AT camp meetings the
stewards drove cut rowdies by fists
fights, and saw these thing, not af-
ter they had passed.
The paying of wages, however small.
disperses national riches. That is
why the south is earning wealth.
How great are the earnings of the
little wares was told me by Levi Zaie.
Ter, the b. u o. railroad agent at Hng-
erstown, said he: A train of six cars
with berries, which are sent out. brtno
tue patches $1,000. How beggardiy
are The Wall street refuse compared to
that!
As soon as the poor shippers bc4,n
10 make something tne railroads. TX
them like Pharoah, TAey now sell IN
the cotton mill uls!rict of Senator 4 :.
man their little children, ia.tead f
letting the negroes WORK the looms.