Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-03-14
AN APPEAL TO AGUINALDO.
INVITATION TO BEBoME "a Coop CITIES
Or This GLORIOUS COUNTRY"

Tie editCr of tie Pocahontas Sun
published somewhere in Kansas
moulds whole lot Of truth in a small
we'd WREN he indites the following oper
let.er TO tie leader Of the Philippine
pItrit is:
"a 2ui, you do not know what COED
thing you are missing by not wanting
to b come a citizen Of this grand coun-
try of ours. There is nothing else like
it under the sun. You ought to send
| a delegation over here to us-this land
of the free; this land If churches ind
4T0, 600 licersed saloons. Bibles, forts,
guns and houses prayer, the million
ares and paupers, theolog ans aud
thieves, liars and libertine' Christians
and chain gangs, politicians and prop
erty, prison en- schools, sealawags,
trusts and tramps, virtue and vice
"a land where we make bologna Of
oogs and canned beef of sick COWS and
old mules and horses and corpses OF
people who eat it; where we put men in
Jail for not having means OF support
and on a rock pile if he has no job;
where we have a Congress Of 400 men
TO make laws and Supreme Court of
nine men t. SET them aside; where good
whiskey makes bad men and bad men
make good whiskey; where newspapers
are paid for suppressing the truth and
made rich for telling lie; where pro-
fe sors dlaw their convictions and
salaries from the same source; where
preachers are paid from 81 900 to $685.
600 year to dodge Satan and tickle
the ears OF the wealthy.
"Wheie business consists Of getting
property in any way that will not land
you in The penitentiary; where trusts
hold you up and poverty hollis you
down; where men vote for what they
do not want for fear they will ct what
they want by voting for it; where wo.
men wear false hair and men dock their
hsrse's tails; where men vote for a
thirg one day and swear about it the
other 364 days in the year; where we
hsve prayers on the floor of the Nat
ional C,pital and wbiskeY in the ba.s-
ment; where we spend $4,000 to bury
a Congressman and $40 to put o man
away if he is poor; where the Govern
nent pays the army officers widow
5000 and the poor private who faced
The shell STA, with the insinuations
hat he is government pauper and
4 burden because he lives.
"Where to be virtuous is to be 10 1e-
some and to be honest is to be q crank;
where we sit on the safety valve of
conscience and pull wide open the
hrotte Of emergency; where gold is
Eorshipped and God is used as a
SastebOshst for our better thoughts
md good resolutions; where we pay SIS
or dog and Is cents dozen to
Door woman for making shirts; where
We teach the unlutored Indian the
way to eternal life and kill him with
Dad booze; where we put man in
prison for stealing loaf of bread and
n Congress for stealing a bank or
'ailrold where check books and sin
walk in broad daylight, justice is asleep
,rIme runs amuck, corrdptions perme-
ties Cur social fabric and Satan laughs
VI every corner. Come 10 US Agui
We have The grandest aggregation OF
ylol things, soft things, hard things
If all sizes, varieties and colors ever
exhibited under one big tent.-Send
our delegation and we will prove all
hese as sertions for truths"