Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-07-07 | Page 4 | Johnson's Blows Echoed Around the World

JOHNSON'S BLOWS ECHOED AROUND THE WORLD. The Jeffries-Johnson fight has brought trouble to nations other than the United States. The British government is somewhat concerned con-cerned over the probable effect tho victory of the blackman over the whiteman will have on its subjects in those colonies where the blacks arc largely in the majority, but are held in restraint by that feeling of inferiority which the whiteman has impressed on the colored man by the whip hand. Down at Cape Town, in Cape Colony, and further north in South Africa, where the British flag commands allegiance, there are millions of blacks and they have been waiting for the returns from Reno, Nevada, with an eagerness bom of a hope that the negro, Jack Johnson, would demonstrate that, in physical prowess, the man of their race is the master of Jim Jeffries, the representative of whit supremacy. When the news was flashed around the world that the colored man had conquered, Cape Town's colored population became excited and since then all that great empire, oyer which British troops passed to meet the Boers, including the Transvaal, has become the scene of a restless body of dark-skinned humanity, half inclined to contest the right of the white race to longer hold them in subjection. sub-jection. It was an unfortunate event, for the peace of blacks and whites, that Jeffries-Johnson fight.