Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-06-15
APPEAL TO AGUINALD0.
Invitation to Become "A Good Citizen Of
This Glorious Country"

This Glorious Country"
| The editor of the POcabontas Sun,
| published somewhere in Kansas, mOlds
| a whole lot of truth in q small wad
when hs indites the following open
letter to the leader of the Philippine
patriots "Agui you do not know what
a good thing you are missing by not
wanting to become a citizen of this
grand country of ours. There is not
thing else like it under the sun. You
ought to send delegation over here to
see us-this land of the free: this land of
churches and 47O, 900 licensed saloons,
Bibles, forts. guns and houses of pray
er, the millionaires and paupers, theO-
lOgians and thieves. libertines and
liars, Christians and chain gangs, pol
iticians and poverty, schools and pri-
sons, scalawags, trusts and tramps,
virtue and vice.
"a land where we make bologna of
dogs 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 haying means of support
and on rock pile if he has no job !;
where we have Congress of 400 men
to make laws aud a Supreme Court of
9 men to 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-
fessors draw their convictions aud
salaries from the same source where
preachers are paid from 81 900 to $25,
900 year to dodge Satan and tickle
the ears of the wealthy.
Where business consist in getting
property in any way that will not 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
thing one day and swear about it the
other 1854 days in the year where we
have prayers on the floor of the Ma
tional Capitol and whisky in the bs Sc
ment !; where we spend $4,000 to bury
"a Congressman and $40 to put man
away when he is. poor where the
Government pays the army officers
widow $1,000 and the poor private who
faced the shell $144, with insinuations
that be is a Government pauper and a
burden because he lives.
"Where to be virtuous is to be lone
some and to he honest is to be a crank;
where we sit on the safety valve Of
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
dog and Is cents dozen to a poor
woman for making shirts where we
teach the untutored Indian the way to
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 OF rail-
road where check books and sins walk
in broad daylight, justice is asleep,
crime runs amuck, corruption per-
meates our social fabric and Satan
laughs at every corner. Come to US,
Agui! We have the grandest aggre-
cation 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"