Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1908 — Jeffries' Latest Oration. [ARTICLE]

Jeffries' Latest Oration.

Jim Jgffries made the strongest statement of his career the other day to the effect that he had permanently retired from the ring. He says that there Is but one chance for him to enter the ring, and that only in the event of his again becoming penniless. He believes that the average man is worth >2 a day from his neck down and for that reason would prefer to fight than to labor if he should ever go broke, and he says there is ’hardly a chance of that happening. The most surprising thlug Jeff said was that he believed if Burns and Johnson ever met the black would win and if he did and thus became the champion of the world that he would never fight him or any other negro. When he decided to retire, he says, he gave out the statement that if a suitable man was found within a year he would fight again, but that such a man was not found and that he then retired permanently.