West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-09-28
KANSAS EDITOR
Kindly Invites the FIlIpinOs to Como
to this Country.


Filipino situation is copied from
a Girard (Kansas) paper.
"You do not know what a good
thing you are missing by not want.
ing to become citizen of this
grand country Of ours. There
isn't anything else like it under
the sun. You ought to send del
egation over here to see us-thls
land of the free--this land of
churches and 100000 licensed sa-
looms, Bibles, forts and guns;
houses OF prayer and licensed
houses Of prostitution; millionaires
and paupers, theologians and
thieves, libertlnes ana liars, Chris.
tians and chain gangs, politicians
poverty, schools and scalawags,
trusts and tramps. virtue and vice.
"a land where you can get O
good Bible for fifteen cents and
drink of good whisksy for ten
cents; where we have men In Cong
ress with three wives and lot in
the penitentiaries for having two
wives; where some make sausage Of
their wives, and some want to eat
them raw; where we make bologna
sausage OF dogs, canned beef OF
horses and sick COWS, and corpses
OF the people who eat it; whore we
put man in jail for not having
the means of support, and on the
rock-plle for asking for a job of
work; where We license bawdy-
houses and fine men for telling the
truth on the street; where we have
Congress of four hundred men to
make laws and Supreme Court of
nine men to set them aside; where
good wbiskey makes bad man and
bad men make good whiskey;
where newspapers are paid for tell.
ing lie; where professors draw
their convictions and their salaries
from the same source; where
preachers are paid $25 900 year
to dodge the devil and tickle the
ears of the wealthy; where business
consists IN getting property in any
way that won't land you in the
ponltentlarY; where trusts hold you
up and poverty holds you down;
where men vote for what they do
not want for fear they will not get
what they do want by voting for IT,;
where "nlggers" can vote and
white women can't; where the girl
who goes wrong is made an out.
cast and her male partner Hourlshes
as "A gentleman; where women wear
false hair and men dock the horses
tails; where the political wire
puller has displaced the patriotic
statesman; where men vote for II
thing one day and cuss it three
hundred and sixty-five days: where
we have prayers on the floor of the
national capitol and whiskey in the
basement; where we spend five
thousand dollars to bury a Cong
ressman who is rich and ten dollars
to put away h workingman who ia
poor; where to be virtuous is to be
lonesome, and to be honest is to
be called crank; where we sit on
the safety valve of energy and pull
wide open the throttle of conscience:
where gold Is Il substance-the one
thing sought for-nnd God is a
waste basket for our better thoughts
and good resolutions; where we paw
$l5 for dog and fifteen cents
dozen to poor woman for maxi
ing shirts; where we teach the
"untutored Indian" eternal life
from the Bible and kill him with
bad whiskey; where we put man
In Jail for stealing loaf Of bread
and in Congress for stealing a rail.
road; where the check book talks,
sin walks in broad daylight, Justice
is asleep. crime runs amuck, cor
ruption permeates our social fab
ric, and the devil laughs from
every street corner.
"Come to us, Fillies We've
got the grandest aggregation of
good things, big and little things.
cold things and hot things, soft
things and hard things, all sizes.
varieties and colors ever exhibited
under one tent. We've got more
guns, more Bibles and more whis-
key than any two houses on earth.
II You don't come, well fetch you;
that's what our guns are for. OF
course, when you fellows cline"
us, you will have to stop eating
each other. You will be our meat
then. Our people won't stand to
see a lot Of good meat wasted that
way. You can eat each Others
Substance that makes flesh. You
can eat logged bologna or canned
horse meat. 1t will be almost as
healthy, and will expand our meat