Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-07-17
THE AMERICAN GIRO US.

| w. r. Andrews, of Grand Rapids
| Mich, at recent toast got Off the fol
lowing appeal to the Filipinos:
You Filipinos don't know what vol
ARE missing by not wanting to become
citizens OF this grand country 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 licens-
ed saloons; bibles, forts and guns,
houses of prostitution; millionaires and
paupers; theologians and thieves: IL
perlsts and liars; politicians and pow
erty; Christians and chain gangs:
| schools and scalawags; trusts ana
tramps; money and misery; homes and
hunger; virtue and vice; a land where
you can get good bible for fifteen
cents and bad drink of whiskey for
nVe 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 bologna out of
dogs, canned beef out of horses and
sick COWS, and corpses out of the people
who eat it; where we put a man in jail
Tor 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 preaching
Christ on the street corners; where we
have congress of 400 men who make
laws, and supreme court of nine men
who set them aside; where good whis-
key makes bad men and bad men make
good Whiskey; where newspapers are
paid for suppressing the truth and
made rich for teaching lie; where
professors draw their convictions from
the same place they do their salaries;
where preachers are paid 1925, 900 a year
to dodge the devil and tickle the ears
of getting hold of property@in any way
that won't land you in the peniten-
tiary; where trusts hold up and pow
erty hold 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 ringers can vote and
women can't; where girl who goes
wrong is made an outcast and her male
partner fiourishes as a gentleman;
where women wear false hair and men
dock their horses tails; where the poll
itical wire puller has displaced the pa
| triotic statesman; where men vote for
thing one day and cuss it 1854 days;
where we have prayers on the floor of
our National Capitol and whiskey in
the cellar; where we spend $500 to
bury statesman who is rich and $40
to put away a working an who is
poor; where to be virtuous is to be
lonesome and to be honest is to be a
lcrank; where we sit on the safety-valve
of energy and pull wide open the throt-
| tie Of conscience; where gold is sub
stance-the one thing sought for;
Where we pay $15. 900 for a dog and fiji
teen cents q dozen to poor woman for
making Shirts where we teach the 'uu-
tutored Indian eternal life from the
bible and kill him off with bad whis-
key; where we put man in Jail for
stealing loaf of bread and in con-
+ gress for stealing railroad; where the
check book talks, sin walks in broad
daylight justice is esleep, crime runs
amuck, corruption permeates our while
social and political fabric, and the
devil laughs from every street corn ar.
Come to us. Fillies! We've got the
greatest aggregation of good thin gs
and bad things, hot things and Geld
things, all sizes, varieties and colors,
ever exhibited under one tent