Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-03
THE AMERICAN CIRCUS.

W. R. Andrews, of Grand Rapids,
Mich. in a recent toast, got off the
following appeal to the Filipinos
You Filipinos don't know what you
are missing by not wanting to be-
come citizens of this grand country OF
ours. There isn't anything like 1t
under the sun You ought to send
a delegation over to see us-the land
of the free-land Of fine churches
and 10000 licensed saloons; bibles,
forts and guns. houses Of prostitu-
ton; mllionaires and paupers; the
ologians and thieves; libe lists and
liars: politicians and poverty; Chris
tians and chain gangs; schools and
scalawags; trusts and tramps; money
and misery: homes and hunger; vir-
get good Bible for fifteen cents and
bad drink of whisky for five cents;
where we have a man in congress
with three wives. and a 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
ont 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 mcans
of support. and on tho rock pile for
asking for job of work; where we
license bawdy houses and fine mon
for preaching Christ on the street cor
ner; where we have q congress OF
400 men who make laws and ST.
aside where good whisky makes bad
men and bad men make good whis-
ky; where newspapers orc 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 $4,000 year to
dodge the dovil and tickle the ears
OF the wealthy: whore business con-
sists of getting hold Of property in any
way that won't land you in the pcni-
tentiary; whero trusts 'hold up and
poverty Holds down. whore mon vote
for what they Go not want for fear
they won't got what they do want
bv voting for It: whore 'nigger5' can
vote aud women cant: whore . girl
who goes wrong Is made an outcast
and her male partner ilourshes IS a
gentlemen: wte@e women Wear false
hair ard men dock their horses tails;
where the political wire-Duller has dis
placed the statesman; whore men vote
for thing Cne day and cuss it 36f
days: whore we have prayers on the
floor Of our rational capitol and Whls-
Ky in the cellar: whore we spend S500
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
lonesome and to he honest is to he
crank: whore we ST, On the safety
valve Of energy and pull wide open
the throttle OF conscience; where gold
is substance--the ono thing sought
for: whe"e Wa nav $4,000 for a dog
and fifteen cents a dozen to poor
woman for making shirts: where we
teach the 'untutored' Indian eternal
life from the Bible and kill him off
with bad whisky; where we put
man in iail for stealing q loaf OF
bread and in congress for Stealing
railroad: VIII ere tho check hook talks.
sin walks in broad daylight. Justice
is asleep. crime runs amuck, ccrrup.
tion permeates our whole social and
political fabric. and tie devil lNughs
from every street corner. Come to
us. Fillies. 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.