Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-02-20
THE AMERICAN CIItCUS.

W. 4. Andrews Of Grand Rapids.
Mich, i'll u recent toast, got oil the fol-
lowing appeal to the Filipinos:
You Filipinos don't know what you
ARE missing by not wanting tO become
citizens Of this grand country Of ours
There isn't anything like il under the
sun. iOu Ought To send delegation
over To see us--'he md o: the free -
land ~ fine churches and 10000 licens.
,-d saloons, Biblcs. forts nnd gune;
house Oi prostitution; millionaiTcs and
paupcrs; thenlOginns and thieves; liberal.
lists and liars; politicians and poverty;
christians and chain gangr; schools and
scalnwags; trusts aud tramps; money
and misery; homes and hunger; virtue
and vice; q land where you can get a
good Bible Tor fifteen cents and a bad
drink Of w!Iiskey 'ur tive cents; where
We have inRn III Congress with three
wives and II lot IN the penitcntiary for
having two wives; where some men
make sausage out Of their wives and
some men want la eat them raw; where
we make bolOuga out ~ dugR. canned
beef ont Oi horses and sick COWS and
corpses ont of the people who eat il
where We put man i'll Jail for not hnv-
ing the means Of support and on the
rock pile for asking Tor II job Of work;
where We license bawdy houses and fine
men for preaching Christ ON the street
corners; where we have Congress Of
four hundreh men who mako the laws
and supreme court of min" men who
act them aside; where good whiskey
makes bad men and bad men make
good whiskc!; where newspapers are
paid for supPressng the truth and made
rich for teaching II lie; where professors
draw their convictions from the same
preachers are paid $4,000 year to
dodge the devil and tickle the curs 4
the wealthy; where business consists in
getting hold Of property in any way TINT
won't land yOu in the pcnitcntiary;
where trust hold up aud poverty
holds down. whore men vote FOR what
they do not want Tor fear they won't get
what they do not want by voting Tor il
where 'niggers' can vote and women
can't; where II girl who goes wrong If AN
"utrast and her male partner tlourishcs
as gentleman; where women wear
false hair and men dock their horses tails;
where the political wire pullcr has dis
placed tho patriotic statesman; where
men vote for II thing one day and cuss il
3Gl days; where we have prayers on the
floor Of our national capitol and whiekey
III the cellar; where VIC spend $500 To
bury II stat tsman who is rich and Sl0 To
put away wOrkngmnn who in poor;
where to be virtuous is To bo lonesome
ind To be honest IL tO bc crnnk; whore
we cit on tho safety valve Of energy and
pull wide open the throttle OF conscience;
where gold IL substnncc-tho ono thing
sought for; where wo pRy $4,000 for II
dog and fifteen cents dozen to a poor
"omnn Tor mnking shirts, where we
teach the untutorcd Indian eternal lie
from tho Bible and kill him Oft with bad
whiskoy; where wo put man in Jail for
stealing loaf oi broad and in Con.
Grcts' for stealing ra!lroad; whcro the
chcck-hoOk talks, sin walks in broad
daylight. justice is asleep, crime runs
nmuck, corruption pormcntcs our whole
social and political fabric. and tho devil
laughs from every street corner, Come
to us, Fillice! We've got the grcatcst
aggregation Of good things md bnd
things. hot things and cold things. all
sizcH, Varieties and colors over exhibited
under Que root"