People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-02-15
Appeal to Aguinaldo.
An Indiana editor says:

"Aguinaldo you do not know what a
good thing you are missing by not want
ing to become a citizen of this grand
country of ours. There isn't anything
else like it under the sun. You ought
to send delegation over here to see
us. This land of the this land Of
churches, 100000 licensed saloons,
bibles, forts and guns houses of prayer;
millionaires and paupers, theologians and
thieves, libertines and liars, christians
and chain gangs, poll i-ians and poverty,
schools and prisons scalawags, trusts
and tramps, virtue and vice.
eve offer you the free blessings of a
land where men w aree wives are
sent to congress and others wit, twice
that many women" are appointed to
cabinet positions. where the bloody
shirt is waved at home and slavery rec
ognized in our Colonial dependencies"
where the flag is upheld by national
pride to be raised over polygamous
harems in Sulu by highly moral Chi +
executive; where young men rui ~
and then cut her head off; vii c
make bologna sausages of dogs, d
beef of sick COWS, old mules S
and corpses of the people who o. :;
where we put a man in Jail for not hay
ing means of support, and on rock
pile if he hasn't 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 whiskey makes bad men and bad
men make good whiskey; where news
papers are paid for suppressing the truth
and made rich for telling lie; where
professors draw their convictions and
salaries from the same source; where
preachers are paid from $1,000 to $751;
600 year to dodge satan and tickle the
ears of the wealthy; where business con-
sists of getting property in any way that
will not land you in the penitentiary.
"Where trusts hold you up and pow
erty holds you down; where men vote
for what.they do not want for fear they
will rot get what they want by voting
for it; where women wear false hair and
men dock their horses tails; where men
vote for thing one day and swear about
it the other 364 days in the year; where
we have prayer on the floor of the ma
tional capital and whiskey in the base
ment; where we spend $1,000 to bury
and ten dollars to put away
a working man who is poor; where the
government pays an army officers widow
S, 900 and a poor private SI55, with in
that he is a government pauper
and burden because he lives; where to be
virtuous is to be lonesome and to be hon
est is to be crank.
"Where we sit on the safety valve of
conscience and pull wide open the throt-
tie of energy; where gold is worshipped
and God is used as a waste basket for our
better thoughts and good resolutions;
where we pay fifteen dollars for dog
and fifteen cents a dozen to a poor
woman for making shirts; where we teach
the untutored Indian the way of eternal
life and kill him with bad BOOZE"
where we put man in prison for stealing
a loaf of bread and in congress for
stealing bank or railroad; where check
books talk and sin walks in broad day
light; where justice is asleep, crime runs
amuck, corruption permeates our social
fabric and satan laughs on every street
corner.
Come to us, Aguinaldo We've got
big things and hard things OF all sizes,
varieties and colors ever exhibited under
one tent. Send your delegation and we
will prove all these assertions are true. "
1t comes as surprise to many
people that there should
have been more than ten times as
many deaths in Havana from tubercu-
losis as from yellow fever.