{"id":7864,"date":"2022-01-08T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T06:00:00","slug":"a-blasted-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-blasted-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blasted Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the <\/em>Rock Island Argus, January 8, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Henry Howland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Brigham was our \u201cwhite man\u2019s hope,\u201d Joe measures six foot four;
He tips the beam around about two fifty, mebbe more;
His muscles are as hard as rocks; he has a bulldog jaw
And fists that are about as big as I have ever saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s workin\u2019 in our shingle mill, and till a week ago
We all felt confident that he could lay Jack Johnson low;
He beat up nearly every man around this neighborhood\u2014
At least the ones who couldn\u2019t run as fast as big Joe could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We brought an expert up from town to learn him how to box;
Joe nearly killed him the first night with one or two swift knocks;
A feller from Chicago come to look him over then;
He told us that the white race soon would be on top agen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that John L., even when he had been at his best,
Would not have made a match for Joe\u2014that made him throw some chest!
He give up workin\u2019 in the mill and trained a week or so
And then knocked out a giant that they\u2019d brought from Buffalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although he\u2019d licked us nearly all, we put our hate aside;
You see he\u2019d got us fairly filled with what\u2019s called local pride;
We watched his trainin\u2019 right along, and cheered him when he passed;
It seemed as though the white man\u2019s sun had rose agen at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But all our hopes are blasted now; Joe beat his wife one night,
And when her daddy found it out he went to set things right;
When he\u2019d got through the neighbors found Joe bleedin\u2019 on the floor,
And he is meekly workin\u2019 in the shingle mill once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Rock Island Argus, January 8, 1914. By Henry Howland. Joe Brigham was our \u201cwhite man\u2019s hope,\u201d Joe measures six foot four;He tips the beam around about two fifty, mebbe more;His muscles are as hard as rocks; he has a bulldog jawAnd fists that are about as big as I have ever saw. He\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-rock-island-argus","tag-henry-howland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}