One could make better than a crude guess as to the psychological sequences involved in the connection between the semi-bestial dance, and concomitant blunting of the finer sensibilities. One could, because sex-charged, hysterical dancing unchecked, runs in the end almost inevitably either to conscious or unconscious brutality of one or another form and degree. In the beginning, the form may but slightly offend that which is natural, and the degree may seem to be as inconsequent; but the cumulative effect of both as suggested and imaged is to commonize a low level of human expression; and since a low level of human expression demands varied excitement pyramided, the final result will depend upon whether a people do or do not put overhead check on that kind of expression. At the Jersey City prize-fight, Americans very palpably did just the reverse who fattened the purses of parasitic pugs and their purveyors there assembled. As a matter of course, such as capsheaf criminals, gamblers, pool-room sharks, bookmakers, race-track "touts," and members and ex-members of the won't work "frat" were at the ringside, drawn as by an irresistible magnet to their natural element. But think on representatives of a nation's dignity and sanity mixing with the motley mass, while entering into the spirit of the brutalizing abomination! Save their women, and say how much the minds of honorables of that kidney have "on" the criminal mind? Essentially how much have they, taking into account their blood and bringing-up, and the blood and bringing-up of the average criminal? How about the mind of a public servant who does not know a bestial, crime-breeding thing when he sees it: or, if he does recognize its basic baseness, still clamps moral handcuffs on his conscience in order to indulge a natural or acquired predilection for brutish expression? May such an one be held safe either to help frame or interpret the laws of his land, on which the oncoming generations of American youth must guide? Could any of the revered forefathers have been dragged to such as current "boxing exhibitions"--again, "don't laugh"--other than in the same as chains? If they could not have been, were they mental, moral and physical "hayseeds" of their day: or, do certain of their successors fundamentally flout their oaths of office, through literally flinging the most pernicious of suggestion and example into the very faces of America's budding lads and lassies? To what, at bottom, more than any one other concrete cause, was the late debacle due, if not to Germany's brutally-planned persistence in making brutish sport a part of the common and uncommon education of her young males? If you are inclined to pass the query, question closely any one of thousands of German ex-students and soldiers whose face bears cicatrized scars of the sword's edge or point, and get your answer.