"JACK" JOHNSON.
People are beginning to wonder wb»M in the name of goodness, "Jack" Johnson has done to deserve all the attention he is receiving in London just now. It is true that he is a negro with a cranium as hard Vs flint, and a methodof .impressing his whiteskinned friends which Creates facial contortions and optical! illusions. It is also more or less true that he is not a saint. Still it savours a good deal of humbug when he is hounded out of the music halls of London. *'Jack" Johnson is no more mercenary than most other people. His ■morals wiH probably compare with those of many white men in the Great Metropolis. He has a reputation for paying twenty shillings in the pound. He does not pretend to be what he is* not. And if his presence in the London Music Halls is goi»g to defile those institutions, then our conceptions of music hall habitues has been altogether erroneous. We ha»-© not been in the habit of regarding music I. alls as severed edifices,, any mors tbaawe have regarded professional pugilists as models of propriety and circumspection.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 4
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190"JACK" JOHNSON. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 4
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