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Show A Red Hot One W R. Andrews, or Gland Rapids, Mich., at a icu-iit toast, got oil the following appeal to the FilipW.os. You Filipinos don't know what you aie missing by not wanting to become cltiensof this giand countiy of ouis. There Isn't anything like It under the sun. You ought to send a delegation ovei to see us- the land of the free land of tlno churches and 40,000 licensed licens-ed saloons; bibles, forts and guns, houses of piostltutlon; lnilliouarles and paupeis, theologians and thlees: liborist.s and liars; politicians and poverty; Christians and chain gangs; schools and scalawags: Hosts and tramps, money and misery, homes and hunger: irture and vice; a laud where you can get a good bible for fifteen cents and a bad di Ink of whiskey foi five cents; where we hae a man in Congress with thiee wives and a lot in the penitentiary for having two wives; where some men make sausage out of their wives, and some want to cat them raw; whcie we make bologna out of dogs, canned beef out of hoiscs and sick cows, and coipses out of the people who eat It; where we put a man In jail foi not having the means of support and on the rock pile foi asKlng foi a Job of work; where we license bawdy houses, and tine men for preaching Christ on the street corners, corn-ers, where we have a Congress of 400 men who make laws, and a supreme court of nine men who set tliem aside; wheiegood whiskey makes bad men and bad men make good whiskey; where newsp.ipuis are paid for suppressing sup-pressing the Until and made rich for teaching a lie; where professois draw their convictions fiom the same place they do their salaries; where preach-eis preach-eis are paid $25,000 a year to dodge the devil and tickle the eaisofthe wealth); wheie business consists of getting hold of property in any way that won't land you in the penitent-iaiy; penitent-iaiy; where tuists iiold up' and pov-cty pov-cty 'holds down'; where men vote for what they do not want for fear they wont get what they want by voting for it. Where 'niggers' can otcand women can't; where a girl who goes wrong Is made an outcast and her male partner flourishes as a gentleman; gentle-man; where women wear false hair and men 'dock' their horses tails; where the political wirepuller has displaced the patriotic statesmen; where men vote for a thing one day and cuss it 301 days; wlieie we have il praycis on the floor of our -National H Capitol and whiskey in the cellar; 9H whcie we spend WOO to bury a states- jH man who Is rich and $10 to put away IH a woikiugmaii who is poor; whcicto ll beirtuousis to he lonesome and to lH be honest is to be a ciank; where we j sit on the safetj-vale of energy ani IH pull wide open the throttle of con- SH science: wheie gold Is substance the lH one thing sought for; where we pay iH $15,000 for a dog and fifteen cents a docu to a poor woman for making tfH stilus; whcie we teach the 'untutored' sH Indian eternal life from the bible and fH kill him oil with bad whiskej; where fH we put a man In jail for stealing a fH loaf of biead and in Congress for steal- jijH lug a railroad; where the checkbook lH talks, sin walks in broad day light, H justice is asleep, crime runs amuck, iH corruption permeates our whole social H and political fabric, and the devil H laughs fiom evcr stieet corner. H Come to us, Fillies! Wc'c got the H greatest aggregation of good things H and bad tilings, hot things and cold H things, all sizes, vaiietles and colors, JH cut exhibited under one lent " 1 |