The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-12-31
our GRrAT COUNTRY.
where We Have Trusts and
Tramps and
PAYsI5OO FOR A DOG.


w. R Andrews, of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, at recent toast, got off
the following appeal to the Fillipi-
nos:
"You Fillipinos don't know what
you are missing by not wanting to
become citizens of this grand CONN.,
try of ours. There isn't anything
like it under the sun. You ought
to send delegation over to see us
the land of the free-land of fine
churches and 10000 licensed sa.
looms; Bibles. forts and guns.
houses OF prostitution, millionaires
and panpers; theologians, and,
thieves; liberists and liars; politi-
CLANS and poverty; Christians and
chain gangs; schools and schala-
waRs; trusts and tramps; money and
misery; homes aud hunger; virtue
and vice; land where you can get
good Bible for fifteen cents or q
bad drink of whiskey for FIVE cents;
where we have a man in congress
with three wives and lot in the
penitentiary for having two wives;
where some men make sausage out
OF their wives; and some want to
eat them raw; where we make bo-
logna out of dogs, canned beef out
of horses and sick COWS, and corpses
out of the people who eat it; where
we put man in Jail for not having
the means of support and on the
rock pile for asking for a job of
work; where we license bawdy
houses. and fine men for preach
ing Christ on the street corners;
where we have congress of 400 men
to make laws and supreme court
of nine men to set them aside;
where good whiskey make bad men
and bad men make good whis.
key; where newspapers are paid
for suppressing the truth and
made rich for lie, where professors
draw their conviction from the
same place they do their salaries;
where preachers are paid $25 900
year to dodge the devil and tickle
the ears of the wealthy; where
business consists of getting hold
of property in any way that won't
land you in the penitentiary ;where
trusts hold up and poverty .holds
down. where men vote for what
they do not want, for fear they
won't get what they do want by
voting for it; where nigger can
vote and women can't, where a
girl who goes wrong is made an
out cast and her male partner -four
ishes as gentleman; where wo-
men wear false hair and men
dock their horses tails; where po-
litican wire pullers has displaced
the patriotic stateman; where men
vote. for a thing one day and
ouss it 365 days; where we
have prayers on the floor of our
National Capital and whiskey in
the cellar; where we spend $500 to
bury a statesman who is rich and
$40 to put away a working man
who is poor; where to be virtuous
is to be onesoEe and to be honest
is to be crank; where we sit on
the safety valve of energy and pull
wide open the throttle of consol-
ence where gold is substance-the
one thing sought for; where we
pay $4,000 for dog and fifteen
cents dozen to poor woman for
making shirts; where we teach the
'untutored Indian eternal life
from the Bible and kill him off
with bad whiskey; where we put
man in Jail for stealing a loaf of
bread and in congress fer stealing
d railroad: where the check book
talks, sin walks in broad daylight.
Justice is asleep. crime runs amuck.
corruption permeates our whole
social and political fabric and the
devil laughs from every street
corner. Come to us Files! We've
got the greatest aggregation of
good things and bad things. hot
things and cold things. all sizes,
varieties and colors. ever exhibited
under one tent.-Exchange