The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-22
A KANSAS EDITOR.
Cordially Invites the Filipinos to Come
to This Country.

The following burlesque on the Fill
(kansas) paper:
APPEAL TO REASON"
You do not know what a good thing
you are missing by no. wanting to be-
come citizens of this grand .3untry Of
ours There isn't anything else liFe
it under the sun. You ought to send
delegation over here to see us--this
land Of the free-.this land of churches
and 100000 licensed saloons, Bibles,
forts and guns; millionaires and paupers,
theolOgians and thieves, libertines and
liars. Christians and chain-gangs, pOllti-
clans and poverty, schools and scala
ways trusts and tramps, Hir.ue and
vice.
= a land where you can get good
Bible for fifteen cents and drink Of
had whiskey for five cents; whc-e we
have mem III Congress with three wives
and lot in the penitentiaries f1r having
two wives; where some make sausage
of their wives and some want 10 eat
them raw; where we make bologna sau-
sage of dogs. canned beef of horses and
sick cows, and corpses of the people
who eat it; where we put 4 man Ill
Jail for not having the means of sup
port and on Il rock pile for asking for
n job of work; where we nave Il Con-
gress of four hundred men 10 make
laws and a Supreme Court of nine men
to set them aside; where good whiskey
makes bad men and bad men make
good whiskey where newspapers are paid
for suppressing truth and made rich
for telling a lie; where professors draw
their convictions and their salaries from
the same source; where preachers are
paid $4,000 a year to dodge the devil
and tickle the ears of the wealthy;
where business consists in getting pros
perity in any way that wont land you
in the penitentiary; where trusts hold
you up and poverty holds you down;
where men vote for what they do not
want for fear they will get what they
do want by voting for it.; wnere n;g-
gers can vote and white women can't;
where the girl who goes wrong is made
an outcast and her male partner Hour
isheS as a gentleman; where women
wear false hair and men dock the
horses tails; where the political wire
pullef has displaced the patriotic states
man; where mem vote for Il thing orr
Sixty-fve days; where WIS have prayers
on the floor of the national capitol ana
whiskey in the basement: where we
spend five thousand dollars 10 bury
Congressman who is rich and ten dol
lars to put away working man who
is, poor; where to be virtuous is to be
lonesome, and to be honest is to be
called a crank; where we sit on the
pot IL ,f nd null wild
open the throttle of conscience; where
gold is a substance-the one thing sought
for-and God is waste basket for our
better thoughts and good resoIatlonsi
where we pay $4,000 for a dog ana Of
teen cents dozen to a poor woman for
making shirts; where we teach the 'un-
tutored Indian eternal life from the
Bible and kill him with bad whiskey;
where we put a man in Jail for stealing
a loaf of bread and in Congress for
stealing a railroad; where the check
book talks, and talks in broad daylight,
justice is asleep, crime runs amuck, cor
ruption permeateS our social fabric, and
the devil laughs from every strGcr cor
Iier.
E Come to us, Fillies! We've got tie
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 exhibit
ed under one tent. We've got more
guns, more Bibles and more whiskey
than any two shows ON earth. If you
don't come, We'll fetch you; that's what
our guns are for Of course, when YOU
fellows jine' us, you will have TO stop
eating each other You will be our meat
then. Our people won't stand to see
lot of good meat wasted that way.
You can't eat each others substance
that makes flesh. You can eat dog
ged bologna or earned Lorse-me1t. 1t
will be almost rs healthy, GId will eX
pand our meat trade. Come to our
arms" BUZZ SAW.