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| by any other quality.
One of his fiercest fights was with
Tom Sharkey, a young, ignorant sail
or. 1t resembled a collision of two
locomotives; Jeffries was the stronger
locomotive. Bob Fftzsimmons dashed
him with blows over the eyes until he
had Jeffries almost blind, but Bob be-
came exhausted by the effort of pound
ing this mountain of strength. AT the
end of his last fight with Jim Corbett,
the latter said as they were carrying
big and strong Strength has always
been his big asset.
In all these fights, Jeffries showed
ability to endure punishment-but no
such sublime indifference to blows as
is shown by natural-born fighters like
Nelson.
In all these fights Jeffries never de-
veloped any remarkable talent for
fighting. If Young Corbett or Bat Nell
son or Terry McGovern had been Jim
Jeffries' size, any one of them could
have whipped a whole regiment of JEFF
fries.
Jeffries was not a sport. He had no
talent for heroics. His instincts were
cautious and respectable He was afraid
of being a hero. Newspaper reports at
first terrified him; then bored him.
They tried to make him an actor, and
the result was something strange ana
wonderful. Jeffries realized it, Every
time he came off the stage into the
wings he would complain bitterly that
| they We're making fool of him.
For the same reason, he never would
/ be interviewed. Reporters never got
anything out of him but monosyllables.
When he had fought every one who
presented himself Jeffries retired, got
married, became rancher, loaned his
name to a saloon, and became a staid,
| well-behaYed man of business.
His return to the ring was brought
about solely by the chance to make a
great deal of money easily. Perhaps
also little on account Of the prejudice
born of his iron-worker days against
a negro and his secret respect for the
championship
| Any fighter with theatrical instincts
would have burst back into the ring
with a blast of defiance; but, in his
slow, earnest way, Jeffries would not
at first give an answer, because he
said (unheroically) he was not sure he
could win.
| the lighting heart of the negro race
is to be tried. In word Jeffries is
a commonplace, uninteresting mechan-
ic, with enormous strength and a full
supply of Anglo Saxon determination
of spirit.
Now for Jack
Jack Johnson:
! Whatever Jeffries lacks in pictures
queness is made up by Johnson ,.--
negro
Johnson is the kind of sporty coon"
you read about in comic papers. He is
a minstrel joke. a scream, cake-walk
| A logician could see Johnson and de-
duct Cor rather ''induct'D the jungles
Of South Africa. Seeing Johnson ar
rayed in his diamonds the day after
visitor from Mars would know tina
somewhere on this earth there must be
savages who hang rings through their
noses and, dancing naked by the light
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William r Hornaday, the naturalist,
saws that two tigers, put into the same
cage for the first time, seldom actual
~ fight. They bristle up their hair
and hiss and snarl One of them per-
ceives that his snarl isn't the real
thing and sulkily surrenders.
Thus animals test that subtle and
almost mysterious quality called the
Fighting heart"
1t is not exactly the same as cour-
age. il is altogether different from the
mere self confidence; something more
than consciousness of power.
II is something inside which tets
rou that you can't be beaten. Some
thing that makes you feel yourself a
victor when your ship is sinking. Be
cause of it, John Paul Jones captured
the Scraps with a Wretched sinking
old tub. Some nations and soma races
are filled with it to Il marked degree.
There is about to be a most inter-
esting test of the extent to which the
negro race has it. This test is to be
prize fight between Jim Jeffries. a
white man of almost pure Anglo Sax
on type. and Jack Johnson, a negro,
for the championship of the world.
II is very curiously true that the
f;oG will no ptrifo c
interesting to the psychologist and the
nthnologist as to the sport.
The mere courage of the negro race
has been tested on d hundred battle
fields. one of the most desperate eX-
bibitions of valor in the history of
modern warfare was the charge of the
negro troops before Petersburg. The
,olored troops stood like rock at San
Juan Hill when some of the white
troops faltered. In the days of our
Indian wars on the plains, the Ninth
and Tenth Cavalry and the Twenty
fourth and Twenty fifth Infantry
showed that negro troops will endure
any hardship and face any danger,
however horrible. But they had Of
ficers. and their officers were white
men and the very highest type of white
men.
"Psha," says one Of the characters
in George Bernard Shaw's play, Arms
and the Man." the courage to rage
and kill is cheap. 1 have an English
bull TERROR who has as much of that
sort of courage as the whole Bulgar-
ian nation and the whole Russian ma
ton at it's back. But he lets my
groom thrash him just the same. That S
Your soldier all over
No White Man Behind Him.
When Jack Johnson faces Jim JEFF
fries in the prize ring, he will not
have behind him white officer
whom he has learned to trust and
obey as d child trusts its mother.
He will be alone on his own resour-
ces with the champion of the world
in front of him and a hostile crowd
hraWlng behind him.
That the crowd will be hostile, with
out question, is not the least interest
ing phrase. Thoughtful men are con-
WINGED that this fight will increase
race hatred. Many even predict a pro-
nounced increase in race rioting il
Johnson should win. The most cas-
ual perusal of the sporting papers
cannot fail to impress any one with
the feeling Of racial bitterness that
already colors this fight. Jeffries is
spoken of as the hope Of the white
race"
This coming chronological test to ig-
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Psychological Studies
OF JeffrieS and johnson

more the sporting side, is particularly
significant because the men are so
evenly matched. physically. You may
say that it is solely a question of the
fighting heart" of the negro
These" as the prestidigitator says,
rolling up his sleeves, lis the appara-
proformed"
First Jeffries:
Jim Jeffries, the white man, is not
the natural fighting type. He is an
amiable bull, goaded to combat. rath-
, er than a bulldog.
Some prize fighters, notably Bat
Ting Nelson, the recently defeated
lightweight champion, are as natur-
ally fighting animals as are short
haired dogs. They fight because they
love fighting. They fight on the
slightest provocation. They fight
from pure blood lust
Jeffries, on the other hand is not in
the least pugnacious. Fighting with
him, is not instructive.
Just before his retirement, he con-
fided to a newspaper friend that he
cordially detested prize fighting and
never would have stepped into a ring
if he could have made as much money
any other way.
Jeffries Is Losy.
Temperamentally, he is slow and
logy and rather dull; slow of speech;
slow of decision, but sound of deci-
sion, with fund of practical common
sense. He talks very little; is peculiar
ly unresponsive, and, luckily for him
self, is hard to influence.
Possibly race has much to do with
it, Most professional fighting men are
Celts, although Bat Nelson is a pure
Dane and many of the later crop OF
fighters, now coming to the front
are Jews and Italians with strain
of Irish.
Jeffries is of English descent with
a sideline of Portuguese.
He is best judged and best un-
derstood as a Britisher He has a Brit
isher's respect for authority; a Bri-
fish horror of making show" OF
himself; English shyness that is hid
Nd IN H.
your-own business air.
AS a boy as school, JeffrieS was &
diffident, obedient plodder who strug-
| gled doggedly and without inspiration
over his lessons; seldom got into schoo
fights and made no trouble for the
teachers.
| With some $50 pounds of solid mus
Gle developed at the FORCES OF an froY
foundry. Jeffries simply had to become
Prize fighter. He was too big not tt
be a prize fighter.
| 1t was uphill business for him.
was hard for him to learn to box. He
was hopelessly slow. But, unskilled a:
he was, he fought with logged peril
nacy and strength that was simpl,
| prodigious.
! Always Keeps Something Back.
1t is a tradition of the prize rims
that Jeffries has never dared to hit {
man with his full strength for fear o.
killing him.
| In time, and by painstaking effort
Jeffries finally learned to box well, will
a sort of heavy bovine skill of execu'
ton.
1t must be confessed however, tina
most of his fights were won more b!
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of the Jungle moon, answer the howl of
the gorilla with their yells.
Johnson is not. very far removed
from the original Fuzzy Wuzzy whom
Kipling conceded to be "big, black,
boundin' beggar but first class fight
i'm man."
Like Jeffries, however. the negro is
not .instinctively a fighter That is to
say, he is not of the fighting type of
animal. He is instinctively a boxer.
Jeffries is bull; Johnson is some
kind of a fastidious jungle cat.
Plainsmen say that one of the most
remarkable sights in the world is to
see a cat fight a snake. Pussy sits pla-
cidly apparently paying not the slight
est attention to the snake as the lat
ter coils and gets ready to strike. Blu,
as the long, sinuous head darts out to
the attack, she stops him with a biff
in mid air, digging her claws in behind
the head; then she resumes her
thoughtful attitude of complacency.
johnson Fights by Flashes.
That's very much the way Johnson
fights in a prize ring. His flashes of
motion are a most extraordinary spec
tacle. There is no room to doubt that
he has never had a superior as boxer.
Not to go into description of the
punches and jabs, this remarkable skill
is interesting as illustrating a phase
of Johnson's character.
When you see him box in his train
ing quarters or even in the ring, you
are impressed with two facts, that you
never seem to find him really in earn
est about it; and the he fights very
much after the manner of a rapier fen
GER
He has the easy Righteousness of the
foil fencer. His defense seems to be
without the slightest effort During his
fight with the dangerous Tommy
conversation with the ringside specta-
tors. While Burns was making his
most furious, if futile, assault, Johnson
asked the referee about the climate of
Australia and chatted about the size of
the audience, as though Burns were
merely little child playing about his
knees.
His defense was so fine and adroit
that he seemed only to be gently push
ing away the vicious little white cham
pion with his hands. Burns futi1ely
pounded the air, like an angry baby.
Occasionally, as Burns started a
blow, Johnson would shoot his brown
arm across and land like a catapault
on the white mans face before Burns
fist could reach him.
These fight details are related for the
purpose of laying foundation for this
question::
Where does this negro get the brain
power TO QlrecC tnlS remarkable ART VI
fighting? With him it is an art.
To land a counter blow, the fol-
lowing thoughts must flash through the
brain of the fighter:
This man is in the act of striking me
with his right hand l can see his fist
coming.
/ will strike him with my left hand
and break the force of his blow by hit
ting him before he hits me. Here goes!
Almost all Johnsons blows are coun-
ter blows. He almost never leads. It is
obvious that the negro has not the
brain to actually think with the rapid
it,. nd that tLiS St1.la of
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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-06
ROOSEVELT AND THE POPE.

The fact that Plus X refused to grant
an audience to former President Roose-
welt. unless the distinguished American
citizen would agree in advance not to
visit the Methodist church in Rome, is
to be regretted. Colonel Roosevelt, of
course. declined to be presented to the
holy father under any such humiliating
conditions. Coming upon the heels of
the Fairbanks incident. the position
taken by the pope has given rise to
much gossip in all the European capt.
tails and accumulated the bitter feeling
existing between the Catholics and
Methodists. This is also to be regret
ted. In this era of religious federation
there should be no warfare between ii b
soldiers of the cross. Although march
ing under different leaders, the Great
Captain is over all.
So far as Colonel Roosevelt and Mr..
Fairbanks are concerned, they will
probably not lose In the estimation of
their Catholic fellow citizens on ac-
count of the unfortunate situation in
Rome. They cannot be held RESPONSE
bic fos the almost insxoussais error Of
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-06
TRADE WITH CANADA.

The exports from the United States
to Canada amounted in the aggregate
to Sill, 100000 IN the fiscal year 1909
during the same period our imports
from the Dominion amounted to S64,-
100000. Bituminous and anthracite coal
and machinery head the list of exports,
and lumber the imports. According to
the figures, which are taken from an
official report of the bureau Of statis-
tics, the balance of trade is largely in
Canada threatened, which the admins
tration happily was able TO avert. Now
a further conference is proposed for the
purpose OF entering into reciprocal
trade relations. Some difficulty will be
experienced in putting this plan into
practical operation, owing to the likeli-
hood of Germany and France demand
ing the same favored nation treatment.
Nevertheless. the attempt will be made
to bring the Dominion and the United
States still closer in. their trade rela-
tions, In spite Of the expected protest
from abroad. This is a commercial ma
ton, and all legitimate means are be-
ing used TO market our wares in all
quarters Of the world. Canada being
our nearest neighbor. is one of our very
best customers and entitled to the
greatest consideration that can be
shown.
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NO LAW AGAINST 1T.

Two japanese, who recently attempt
ed to purchase the plans of the FORTH
cations at Manila and were arrested
have been released by order Of the sec
rotary of war. II seems that their Of
Tense was not punishable under the
statutes. Spies in time Of peace are
nearly as dangerous as spies in time Of
war in some instances, and this partio-
ular case should give the United States
fair warning. The Philippine Islands
are close to japan, and several thou
sand miles distant from this country.
In case OF war. Manila would be the
first point of attack. That war may
never come. If it should. possession Of
the plans of the fortifications would
give the Japanese considerable advan-
tage and render the capture of Manila
a certainty. bill has been introduced
In Congress making provision for the
punishment Of aliens who follow in the
footsteps of these two Japs. who have
escaped. 1t IS time such a law was on
the statute books.
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having taken part in the deliberations
and assisted IN making up the opinion.
his vote was counted when the result
was announced. Four justices favored
the contention Of the government and
four the railroad. Under ordinary cir
cumstances that would have ended the
case. but the court concluded to have it
reargued next October, when it is hoped
there will be a full bench. This action
may have a bearing ON the American
Tobacco and Standard Oil cases, as but
eight justices took part In the proceed
ings. although no announcement was
made that these actions were to be ar
gued again. The illness Of Justice
Moody has greatly delayed the work Of
the supreme court, and there is little
chance OF his taking his place on the
bench for several months. The place
made vacant by the death of Justice
Brewer will doubtless be filed In the
near future. In that event, there will
be eight justices again on duty, with
the chance OF a tie vote on all impor-
tant cases.
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EXIT coNeER.

Senator Benn Conser, the member of
the New York legislature who made the
charges against Senator Aids. has re-
signed. He succeeded in driving Aids
from public LIE, his own name and
fame suffering during tho operation.
Aids accepted money for his vote when
q member Of the assembly. Conger
knew it, because he helped his deceased
brother do the bribing. The ahnos-
phers of the New York state senate will
be clearer and purer since the enforced
retirement of these two worthless. Nei-
ther is deserving Of any great amount
OF sympathy. and there are no indica-
tons that it will be extended. Public
office is no longer a private snap.
GrafteTs all over the country are being
mercilessly trailed down by the officers
OF the law with warrants In their
hands. Let the good work proceed until
the last rascal is rounded up.
So far as New York is concerned, the
work is to be thorough If Governor
Hughes has his way. The two senators
who are in disgrace are both Republi-
cans, but as Governor Hughes observed
in a speech the other night, political
corruption is not partisan. He said, fur
Their:
Il am Republican. strongly at
tached to my party and earnest in the
desire for Republican success, but 1
cherish a concern deeper and more vi
tai than that. want to see the illicit
efforts of privilege frustrated, bribery
and corrupt arrangements destroyed
and the market places where govern
mental favor has been bought and sold
converted into true assemblies of honest
representatives of the people.
I'VE should seek to the fullest extent
possible the benefit Of the purifying in
huence Of publicity. This is not a time
for eoncealment, for adroit finesse, for
pleasant schemes to hoodwink the peo-
pie. There must be a straightforward
dealing. Some object that it costs
money to investigate. That is true, but
it will cost more not to investigate. The
political household needs disinfecting,
and we shall save money by making the
process a thorough one"
That's the right kind Of talk, and
that's the reason why the Empire state
will not be turned over to "F1ngy"
Connors. big Tim" Sullivan and others
of their kidney
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the papaI secretary of state, Cardinal
Merry Del Val.
Fortunately Americans in general
are broad enough to allow every man to
worship God according to the dictates
Of his own conscience, and IL would be
the next thing to an impossibility to
start a fratric.dal religious war on this
side Of the ocean. The good Catholic
and the good Methodist brothers in
times past have respected each others
rights. and viii do so in the future.
Reactionary counsels do not prevail in
the United States. II the pope follows
bad advice. the Ill effects should not
be felt outside of the vatican.
It is to be hoped, however. that wiser
eounsels Tsay prevail in future. and
that distinguished American citizens
who visit the holy father and wish him
well, no matter what their religious be-
lief. without being required to follow
conditions under which they would lose
their self-respect.