Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-05-11
TO .AaUINALDO. FILIPINO:

"Agui," you do not know
what a good thing you are miss
ing by not wanting to become a
citizen of this grand country OF
ours? There isn't anything else
like it under the sun. You ought
to send a delegation over here to
see us. This land OF the free:
this land of churches and 49,
900 licensed saloons, bibles,
forts, and guns, and houses OF
prayer. The millionaires and
! paupers, theologians and thieves,
1ibertines and liars, christians
and chain-gangs politicians and
poverty, schools and prisons,
scalawags, trust, and tramps,
virtue and vice.
A land where we have men in
congress who have three wives
and a lot in the penitentiary for
having two wives. Where some
men boil cor make sausages of
their wives when they see a
younger one they want. Where
young men ruin a girl and then
cut her head off. Where we
make bologna of dogs, and can
ned beef of sick COWS and old
mules and horses. and corpses of
people who eat it. Where we
put man in jail for not having
means of support and on a rock
pile if he hasn't a job.
Where we have a congress Of
400 men to make laws and a
supreme court of nine men to set
them aside. Where good whisky
makes bad men and bad men
make good whisky. Where
newspapers are paid for sup
pressing the truth and made rich
for telling a lie. Where profess
sors draw their convictions and
salaries from the same source.
Where preachers are paid from
ST. 100000 to 100000 a year
to dodge satan and tickle
the ears of the wealthy. Where
business consists in getting
property in any way that won t
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 want by voting for it.
Where women wear false hair
and men dock their horses tails.
Where men vote for a thing one
day and swear about it the
other 364 days in the year.
Where we have prayers on the
floor Of the national capital and
whisky in the basement. Where
we spend $5,OOOto bury a con-
gresham and $40 to put a man
away when he is poor. Where
government pays the army
officers widow $4,000 and a
poor private who faced the shell
$144, with insinuatiOns that he
is a government pauper and a
burden because he lives.
Where to be virtuOus is to be
lonesome and to be honest is to
be q crank" Where we sit on
the safety valve 5of conscience
and pull wide open the throttle
OF energy. Where gold is wor-
SHIPPED and God is used as a
waste basket for our better
thoughts and good resolutions.
Where we pay $15 for a dog and
15 cents a dozen to poor women
for making shirts. Where we
teach the 'untutored Indian"
the way to eternal life and kill
him with bad "booze. ;" Where
we put a man in prison for steal
ing loaf OF bread and in con-
gress for stealing a bank or a
railroad. Where sheck-books and
sins walk in broad daylight,
justice is asleep, crime runs
amuck, corruption permeates
our social fabric, and satan
laughs at every corner. Come to
us, Agui! We've got the grand
est aggregation Of good things,
soft things and hard things OF
all sizes, varieties and colOrs ever
exhibited under one big tent.
Send your delegation and we will
prove all these assertions for
truths.-POchontas, Kan, Sun.
Now is good time to clean up the
yard, and beautify your grounds.
Every home should have some flowers