The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-04-15

with their unreplaceable art treasures
and sacred relics. Aeroplanes, like
ominous birds of prey, flew over de-
fenseless villages dropping missiles of
death; mingling the gray hairs of age,
the prime of manhood, the vigor of
youth, the helplessness of womankind
and the innocence of babes in indis
criminate slaughter. Supernatural
submarines, like the gray ghosts of
night, plowed seas teeming with COM
merce and silently beneath the sur
face blew skyward passenger laden
steamers, regardless of results. Pro-
fessed Christian rulers with prayer
mockery on their lips publicly thank
ed the God of Peace for the success of
these atrocities and ostentatiously
decorated the perpetrators with Iron
Crosses" Victoria Crosses" Ribbons
of the Legion of Honor" "The Order
of the Eagle" and gentle women wept
with pride and joy that their loved
ones were so highly honored for their
grizzly operations.
Even while we were metaphorically
patting ourselves on the back that the
skirts of this nation were clean, were
not besmirched with crime of the ages
this great Nation went off on bar
barous debauch, which for love-lived
depravity, downright cussedness,
senseless degeneracy and foolish
idiotic criminalty, disclosed hideous
streak of useless, needless savagery,
much worse worse than that exhibited
by the warning hosts of the Old
World.
A negro brute, a fugitive from JUS
tice, a man without country, pal
pable violator Of every ethic of civil,
social, moral and religious law, but,
by some legerdemain of alleged
sportdom, claiming the mythical title
of champion of the World" was
challenged for that title by still
more disreputable white man, for any
white man who would permit his
flesh to come in contact with such
pachydormatious bemoth for none
tary consideration is ten times worse
than the dinge. About the only place
where the bestial performance could
be pulled off was in bull-baiting, cock
fighting Cuba, and there the unsalu-
brious performance took place. Every
one knew the fight would be faxed.
Everyone knew the promoter was so
crooked that the only way he could
conceal himself from view would be
to hide himself behind two gigantic
corkscrews. Everyone knew that the
white degenerate and his crafty man.
ager were only out for the coin of the
credulous. Every pugilistic expert
knew that the 1.-the, shifty-footed
black man could tie one hand behind
him, strap one foot up to his knee and
then knock the everlasting stuffing
out of the awkward, lubberly, muscle
bound cowboy.
Thousands of experts doped out the
result of the battle before it happened
doped out that the coon would dem
onstrate his superiority; that spec
tacular picture film performance
would be given, neither would be hurt,
and at the proper time the negro
would be knocked out so as to make
these same films worth a million dol
lars instead of not worth the paper on
which they were printed, as would
have been the case if the colored man
had won.
Of course it transpired that way. At
the physiological moment a straight
to the jaw did the apparent work.
The championship" passed from
black to white as per pre-arrange-
ment; the referee counted ten over
the PROSTATE Sengambian and the
count "ten" was hardly out of the ref
eree's mouth before the willy son of
Africa, uninjured, unmarked, arose
unaided, walked away unassisted with
the same homogeneous sang-froid man.
Tested by the corpse" in amateur
theatricals, who rises from the stage
and disappears behind the wings
while his distracted relatives are gre
viously lamenting his departure.
Well may "lil Artha" chuckle in
ternally; he cleaned up more white
mans cash in his defeat than he ever
did in victory.
With thousands of men asking for
work and women and children suffer-
ing for work, the fool American pub
lie paid over 100000 to witness this
carefully rehearsed fiasco; they will
contribute a million more to witness
its repetition in the picture houses
and still another million to see the
new champion" lumberingly cavort
behind the footlights. "
The press of the country devoted
space enough in describing this affair,
the events leading up to it and the in
cidents following, which, if sold at
regular advertising rates would
amount to enough to endow dozen
colleges.
The new Champ" on his return was
greeted with hozannas of rejoicing;