Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1903-09-23
APPEAL TO FILIPIN0S.

Here is one of the rankest specimens
of hair splitting yellow journalism
we have ever seen. We are almost
ashamed to reprint it. The crank who
uttered il ought to be banished from
the country. And yet some things he
says are but the truth:
W. r. Andrews of Grand Rapids.
Mich, at recent toast got off the
following appeal to the Filipinos:
lyon 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 it
under the sun. You ought to send a
delegation over to see us-the land Of
the free-land of fine churches and
$40, GOO licensed saloons bibles, forts
and guns, houses of prostitution, mil
lionaires and paupers, theologians and
thieves; politicians and poverty
Christians and chain gangs; trusts
and tramps; money and misery
homes and hunger; virtue and vice; a
land where you can get good bible
for 10 cents or bad drink of whiskey
for five cents; where we can have a
man in congress with three wives and
lot in the penitentiary for having
two wives; where some men make
sausages 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 for not having
the means of support, on the rock pile
for asking for job of work; where
we license bawdy houses and fine men
for preaching Christ on the street cor
ners where we have congress Of 400
men to make laws and supreme court
of nine men to set them aside; where
good whlskey makes bad men and bad
men make good whlskey where news
papers are paid for suppressing the
truth and made rich for telling a lie
where professors draw their convic-
tions from tue same place they do
their salaries; where preachers are
paid S52, 200 year to dodge the devil
and tickle the ears of the wealthy
where business consists in getting
hold of property in any way that
won't land you in the penitentiary
where trusts hold up ana poverty
holds down where men get what they
don't want by voting for it; where
niggers can vote and women can't
where girl who goes wrong is made
an outcast and her male partner
hourishes as gentleman /; where wo-
men wear false hair and men dock
their horses tails where the politi-
cal wire puller has displaced the pa.
triotic statesman where men vote fol
thing one day and cuss it 1854 days
where we have prayers on the floors
of onr national capitol and whiskey
in the cellar; where we pay $500 to
bury a statesman who is rich and $40
TO put away a workingman 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 energy and pull wide open
the throttle of cons cience where gold
is substance-the one thing sought
for where we pay $4,000 for dog
and fifteen cents dozen to poor wo-
man for making shirts; where we
teach the untutored Indian eternal
life from the bible and kill him with
whiskey where we put man in Jail
for stealing loaf of bread and in
congress for stealing railroad where
the checkbook talks, sin walks in
broad daylight, justice is asleep,
crime runs amuck, corruption per-
meates our whole social and political
fabric, and the devil laughs from
every street corner Come to us, Fill
lies. We've got the greatest aggrega-
tion of good things and bad things,
hot things aud cold things, all sizes.
varieties and colors, ever exhibited
under one tent"