The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-12-29
The American Circus.

W. r.. Andrews, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, at a recent toast, got off 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 it under the
sun. You ought to send delegation
over to see us-the land of the free
land of fine churches and 40, 06O licens-
ed saloons; bibles, forts and guns,
houses of prostitution ;millionaires and
paupers; theologians and thieves;
liberists and liars; politicians and pov-
erty; Christians and chain gangs;
schools and scalawags; trusts and
tramps; money and misery; homes and
hunger; virtue and vice; land where
you can get q good bible for fifteen
cents and bad drink of whiskey 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 out of
dogs, canned beef out of horses and
sick COWS, and corpses out OF the peo-
pie who eat it; where we put man in
Jail for not having the means Of support
and on the rock pile for asking for a
Job Of " work; where we license bawdy
houses and fine men for preaching
Christ on the street corners; where we
have congress of 400 men who make
laws, and supreme court of nine men
who set them aside; where good whisk-
ey makes bad men and bad men make
good whiskey; where newspapers are
paid for suppressing the truth, and
made rich for teaching lie; where pro-
fessors draw their convictions from the
same place they do their salaries; where
preachers are paid $25, 900 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 hold up and poverty
holds down. where men vote for what
they do rot want for fear they Won't
get what they do 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
fourishes as a gentleman; where wo-
men wear false hair and men dock
their horses tails; where the political
wire -puller has displaced the patriotic
statesman; where men vote for thing
one day and cuss it 1854 days; where W.
have prayers on the floor of our Nation
al Capitol and whiskey in the cellar
where we spend $500 to bury states
man who is rich and $40 to bury
working man who is poor; where to b.
virtuous is to be lonesome and to b
honest is to be a crank; where we 81
on the safety-valve of energy and pul
wide open the throttle of conscience
where gold is substance-the one thin
sought for; where we pay $l5, 900 for
dog and 10 cents dozen to poor wO
man for making shirts; where we teac
! the 'untutored' Indian eternal life fror
! the bible and kill him off with ba
: whiskey; where we put man in ia
: for stealing loaf of bread and in ccr
! gress for stealing railroad; where th
check book talks, sin walks in broa
daylight, justice is asleep, crime run
amuck, corruption permeates our Who'll
a social and political fabric, and the dey
: laughs from every street corner. Com
q to us, FilliesI We've got the greatei
7 aggregation Of good things and ba
i things, hot things and-cold things, q
= sizes. varieties aud colors, ever exhibi
cd under one TENT