The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-08-04
ADDRESS 70 FiLLiPINos.
]. Kelly Poole IN the csntraiis, Missouri
Courier.

You do not know what a good thing
you are missing by not wanting 70 be
come citizen Of this grand country Of
ours. There isn't anything else like Il
under the sun. You ought to send a
delegation over here % see uS--the land
Of the free-land Of churches and 100
600 licensed saloons, Bibles, forts and
guns; houses Of prayer and licensed
houses Of prostitution millionaires and
paupers: theologians and thieves, liber-
tines and liars; Christians and chain
gangs: politicians and poverty; schools
and scalaWags: trusts and tramps yir-
the and vice.
A land where you can get a good Bible
for - cents and bad drink Of whiskey
for 5 cents where we have men in con-
gress with three wives and lot in the
penitentiary for having two wives T;
where some men make sausage out of
their wives and some want % eat them
raw: where We make bologna sausage
out OF dogs. canned beef out Of horses
and sick COWS and corpses out Of the
people who eat IL where we put a man
in Jail for not having the means Of sup
port and on the rock pile 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 a
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supreme court OF men 10 set them aside /;
where good whiskey makes bad men
and bad men make good whiskey
where newspapers are paid for suppress
sing the truth and made rich for
telling a lie; where professors draw
their convictions from the same source
they do their salaries where preachers
are paid $4,000 year to dodge the
devil and tickle the ears of the wealthy ;
where business consists in getting prop
erty in any way that won't land you in
the penitentiary where trusts hold you
up and poverty down; where men vote
| for what they do not want for fear they
will not get what they do want by yOt-
ing for il ; where the niger can vote
and women can't; where the girl who
goes wrong is made an outcast and her
male partner fourishes az a gentleman
where women wear false hair and men
dock their horses tails where the pO-
| litical wire puller has displaced the pa
/ triOtic statesman where men vote for
one thing one day and 'cuss' it the
other 364 where we have prayer on the
floor Of ournational capital and whiskey
in the cellar where we spend S2,0j0 ~
bury a congressman who is rich and SIC
70 put away a working man who is poor
| where 10 be courteous j. 10 be lonesome,
and % be called crank where we sit
on the safety valve OF energy and pull
wide open the throttle OF conscience
where gold II a substance-the one
! thing sought for-and God is a waste
basket for our better thoughts and good
resolutions where We pay $4,000 for a
dog and Is cents a dozen 20 a poor
woman for making shirts; where we
teach the untutored Indians eternal life
from the Bible, and kill him with bad
whiskey; where We put man i'm iail
for stealing loaf Of bread and in con-
gress for stealing a railroad where the
AnfAh bNVh NhAhHf FAAA MalhH al uIOAiA
daylight, justice is asleep; crime runs
amuck, corruption permeates our whole
social fabric, and the devil laughs from
| every street corner.
, Come 10 US, Fillies; we've got the
grandest aggregation OF good things and
bad things, big things 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, Bibles and more
whiskey than any two shows on earth.
II you don't come Wen fetch you. That's
what our guns are for. OF course, when
you fellows 'iine' NJ you will have TO
stop eating each other. You will be our
meat then. Our people won't stand il
10 see lot OF good meat wasted that
way. You can eat each others sub
stance that make the flesh. You can
get dogged bologna or canned horse
meat. II will be almost a. healthy and
expand our meat trade. Come 10 our
arms.