Show GANS DEFENDER OF ROOSEVELT Prize Fighter Thinks President Did Right in Dismissing Negro Soldiers Tonopah Nev Dec 13 Joe Gans champion champlon lightweight fighter of the world I has come forth as a defender of Pres President dent ent Roosevelt In the stand taken by the chief executive on the dismissal of the belligerent negroes es of the infantry after the Brownsville riots Gans is proud of his race and and In his own way Is a great worker for the up uplifting uplifting uplifting lifting of his people This statement may sound strange when it is pointed out that Joe Is a prize fighter righter by profession but in his work worl for the betterment of his people Joe Gans profession is only ont the means for an end There is hardly a worthy society for the helping of the Negro race in this whole United States that Gans does not contribute to in a financial way wa The lightweight champion has his failings chief among which is gambling but hut he has never been known to refuse a call for financial aid from workers in iii the negros cause It is this trait of racial pride In the th makeup of Joe Gans clans that causes him bun to to take more than a passing Interest in the Brownsville affair and the attitude of the president as well weli as In the criticisms made on the president Thinks Preacher Wrong When Gans Cans arrived In Tonopah a few days ago to start training for his com ing lug contest with wilh Kid Herman he nad nadith with ith him a clipping from front a New York paper In which was a bitter arraignment Of the Rev W V II 11 Brooks Negro pastor of St 81 Marks church in street New York because of or the tile pastors at attack attack attack tack on the president for his attitude in inthe inthe inthe the Brownsville affair Gans Cans was greatly exercised over the sermon delivered hy y the Rev Brooks and upheld the scorching hing given the colored preacher by the tho New NewYork NewYork NewYork York writer In discussing the Brooks sermon and the Brownsville affair Cans Gans said No colored man who has acquainted himself with the facts of the trouble at Brownsville and who has ordinary Intel Intelligence Intelligence can take exception to President action in the cases of the thc sol soldiers soldiers diers diem The people who say sa that Mr tr Roosevelt acted d unfairly in this matter because the soldiers of the th were colored men should be bc enlightened as to the fairness and good feeling which the president has huts always displayed to the people of my race Any man with the ordinary amount of brains and not bur with prejudice knows that President dent Roosevelt have taken just the same action had the been made up of white men m n instead of colored men Other Negroes Think Same SameI Samer I r have talked with a great many of or orm my m own people since Mr Jr Brooks has tak taken taken taken en it on himself to attack President t Roosevelt and with but one or two ex cx exceptions exceptions all have expressed themselves its as 19 dead against the sentiments that Mr Ur Brooks expressed In his foolish sermon Now N ow it may seem funny for me a prize fighter to be criticising a minister of the gospel but I have always taken an active interest in the welfare of my people and when a colored man does any anything anything anything thing to injure the standing of our race I shall always resent It Mr Ir Brooks 1 I should judge is one of those men who lets his desire for attracting to himself public notice get away with his hia good 1 sense If lf Mr Brooks would devote his Ills time timeto timeto tImeto to helping the innocent men of the to get back into the service and erase the blot from the record of the regiment instead of creating more sentiment sentiment sen zen against the colored soldiers he would be he spending his time to some ad advantage advantage d vantage Mr Brooks has not the support of tIle the colored people of the country He lIe has no right to criticise the president and he is not upheld in his action Mr 11 Roose Rouse Roosevelt Rousevelt velt is right and he is a friend of our race It Is my m hope that Mr Brooks remarks remark will be ignored by b not only he the white people of the country countr but the col colored colored COlored ored people as well Our people have enough burdens to carry without being held back by injurious remarks such as us Mr Brooks is credited with haying having ut uttered uttered uttered |