Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1899-09-06
w. S. MORGAN'S LETTER TO
THE FnIPINOS.

MyDear Misguided Human Brothers
Just lay down your fusese. bows and
arrows and lei me talk to you, wani
to give you little information
Now, to begin with, you fellows
would do just as we'll to climb into 9
sausage grinder as to tackle Uncle
Sam. Uncle Sam is a figurative ex-
preston for seventy millions Of people.
do not want to see mince meat made
Of you, You may think you are re-
ceiving pretty hard treatment. but
Great Scott! what would 1t be If Sam
uel should take notion to send you q
cargo Of canned beef! You ought to
be thankful you have escaped that.
Now let me tell you what to do.
Stop fighting. It is only matter OF
time when you'll get licked anyway.
Surrender under one condition only
that you shall not be fed on canned
beef. u t~
You fellows don't know what you are
missing by not wanting to become citi-
zens Of this grand country Of ours.
There isn't anything Ike IT under the
sun. You ought to send delegatian
over here to see us-this land Of the
free-land Of churches and 10000 IL
censed saloons; bibles, forts and guns,
houses of prayer and licensed houses of
prostitution; millionaiers- and paupers;
theologians and thieves; libertines and
liars; christians and chaingangs; poli-
iicians and poverty schools and Seal
awags; trusts and tramps; money and
misery; homes and hunger; virtue and
vice.
A land where you can get good BIZ
BILE free for is cents or bad drink Of
whiskey for cents; where we have a
man in Congress with three wives, and
lots in the penitentiary for having two
wives; where some men make sau-
sages out of their wives and some
want to eat them raw; where we make
bologna sausages out of horses and
sick cows, and corpses out Of the peo-
pie who eat 1t; where we put man in
jail for not having the means Of support
and on a rock pile for asking for a job
of work; where we license bawdy hous-
es and fine men for telling the truth on
the streets; where we have a Congress
of 400 men to make the laws and a
Supreme Court of nine men to set
them aside; where good whiskey makes
bad men and bad men good whiskey;
where newspapers are paid for sup
pressing the truth and made rich for
teaching lie; where professors draw
+their convictions from the same place
they draw their salaries; where preach
ers are paid SIS 900 year to dodge
the devil and tickle the ears of the
fwealthy; where business consists Of
getting hold Of property in any way
that won't land you in the penitentiary;
where trusts "hold you up and power
Ety holds you down; where men vote for
what they do not want for fear they
Ewont get what they want by voting for
it; where the "niggers' vote and wo-
men cant; where the girl who goes
wrong is made an@outcast and her male
partner flourishes as gentleman;
where women wear false hair and men
"dock" their horses tails; where the
political wire puller has displaced the
patriotic statesman; where men vote
for thing one day and cuss it 1854
days; where we have prayers on the
floor of our national capital and whis
key in the cllar; where we spend 5000
to bury Congressman who is ricf
while we spend $40 to- lay away ]
workingman who is poor, where to b
yirtuous is to be lonesome and to b.
| honest is TO be called a crank; wher