The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-11-20
The American Circus.

BY w. A. Andrews, OF Grand
Rapids, Mich.
"You Fillpinos don't know what
you are missing by not wanting to
become citizens OF this grand
country OF ours. There isn't any
thing like 1t under the sun, You
ought to send delegation over to
see US = the laud OF the free-land
OF fine churches and 100000 llcens-
ed saloons bibles, forts and guns,
houses OF prostitution ;millonairos
and paupers; theologlans and
thieves liberlsts and liars; poll
ticIans and poverty; Christians
and chain gangs; schools aud
scalawags; trusts and tramps !;
money and misery; homes and
hunger; virtue and vice; land
where you can get good bible for
fifteen 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, caHned beef out OF horses
and sick cows and corpses out OF
the people who eat IL; whore we
put man in Jail for. not having
the means Of support and on the
rock pile for asking for job OF
work where we license bawdy
houses and fine men for preaching
Christ on the street corners; where
we have congress OF 100 men
who make laws, and supreme
court OF nine men who set them
aside whore good whiskey makes
bad men and bad men make good
whiskoy; where newspapers are
paid Tor snppressing 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 49,, 900 year 10 dodge the
devil aud tickle the eers Of the
wealthy where business cons isis
OF getting property In any way
that won't land you In the peni-
tentiary; where trusts "hold 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; where a girl who
goes wrong is made an outcast and
her male partner flourlshos as n
gentleman; whore women wear
false hair and men "dockn their
horses tails: whore the political
wire.puller has displaced the
patriotic statesman; where men
vote for thing ono day aud cuss
II 3Gi days; where we have pray
ers on the floor OF our Nationa
Capitol and whiskey In the cellar
where we spend $500 to bury I
statesman who is rich and $40 Il
put away working man who Il
poor; where TO bo virtuouS is to b,
lonesome and 10 DO honest is 10 b
a cranK whore we sit on the safe
/ ity.valve OF otenorgy and pull wild
, open the throttle OF conscience
where gold is substance the on
thing sought for; where we pa
! $4,000 for dog aud hfteen cent
a dozen 10 n poor woman for mai
ing shirts; where we teach tn
"untutoredp ludian eternal III
from the bible aud kill him o
d with bad whiskoy whoro We pit
Y Il man in Jail for stealing a loaf I
K bread and In congress for stealth
q a railroad; where the checkboo
/ talks, sin walks in broad dayIigh
justice is asleep,crlme runs amucI
corruption permeates our who
social and political fabric, and I'll
$ devil laughs from every sire,
h corner, Come to us Flllles We'N
e got the greatest aggregation
1t good things and bad things, hi
$ things and cold things, all size
p varieties and cOlors, ever oxhibite
= under one tent"