IN HONOUR OF JOHNSON’S WIN.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 988, 11 February 1909, Page 11

IN HONOUR OF JOHNSON’S WIN.

The victory of Jack Johnson, the Afro-American pugilist champion of the world, over Tommy Burns former wearer of the laurels was celebrated bv thousands of Chicago negroes (says the “Vancouver Daily Province”). The most prominent places where racial spirit found expression were at “ Pony” Moore’s resort, where negroes and whites gathered to celebrate the victory, and at Federal Hall, where the Manassee and the Lincoln Clubs observed the rise of Johnson into championship ranks by a more exclusive affair. At the latter club Edward Morris, the leading coloured lawyer, made the following comment pertinent to the change of the championship: “ Johnson’s victory demonstrates the physical superiority of the.blacii over the Caucasian. The basis of mental superiority in most men is physical superiority. If the negro can raise his mental standard to his physical eminence, some day he will be a. leader among men. and Ethopia shall come to her own. “ The United States, in spite of the opposition of the narrow-mined, is coming to a condition where the races will bear relations as they do in Cuba. He has won in political equality. He will win in economic and social equality.”