Okolona messenger., 1903-06-24

w R. Andrews. Of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, at . recent toast. got of the
following appeal to the Fillipinos:
"You Fllipinos don't know what you
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 a delegation
over to see us-the land Of the free
land Of fine churches and 10000 llcens-
ed saloons; bibles, forts snd guns,
houses Of prostitution; millionaires and
panpers; theOlogians aud thieves; lib
erists and liars; politicians and power
ty; christians and chain gangs; schools
and scalawags; trusts and tramps
money and misery homes and hunger
virtue and vice; a land where you can
get a good bible for IS cents and q bad
drink Of whiskey for cents where we
have man in congress with 3 wives
and lot in the penitentiary for having
2 wives where some men make sau-
sage 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
a man in j Ill for not having the means
of support and on the rock pile for ask
ing for a job of work; where we IL
cense bawdy houses and fine men for
preaching Christ on the street corners 3
where We have congress Of 400 men
who make laws, and a supreme court
Of nine men who set them aside where
good whiskey makes bad men, and bad
men make good whiskey; where news
papers are paid for suppressing the
truth and made rich for teaching a lie /;
where professors draw their convic-
tions from the same place they do their
salariesi where preachers are paid
$4,000 q 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
'hcld 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
"niggers" can vote and women can't I;
where the girl who goes wrong is made
an outcast and her male partner 9our-
ishes as a gentleman where women
wear false hair and men "dock" their
horses tails where the political wire.
puller has displaced the patriotic ates-
man; where men vote for a thing one
day and cuss it 364 days; where we
have prayers on the floor of our Ma
tional capitol and whiskey in the eel
lar; where we spend $500 to bury a
statesman who is rich and $40 to put
away working man who is poor
where to be virtuous is to be lonesome
and to be honest is TO be a crank
where we sit on the safety valve of en-
ergy and pull wide open the throttle of
conscience where gold in substance
the one thing sought for; where we
pay $15, 900 for a dog and fifteen cents a
dozen to poor woman for making
shirts where we teach the "untutor
ed Indian eternal life from the bible
and kill him off with bad whiskey
where we put a man in Jail for steal
ing loaf of bread and in congress for
stealing a railroad where the check
book talks, sin walks in broad daylight
justice is asleep, crime rune amuck
corruption permeates our whole social
and political fabric, and the devil
laughs from every street corner, Come
to ne, Fillies We've got the greatest
aggregation of good things and bad
things, hot things and cold things, al
sizes. varieties and colors, ever exhibit
ted under one tent"