The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1904-09-23
w. G.. T. U.COLUMN NJ.
Conducted BY MRS. NJ. L. HoBBs
The American Circus.

Mich. at a recent toast, got on ia,
following appeal 10 the PHILIPPINES
you fhilipinos don't know wha.
YOU are missing 10y not wanting (
become citizens Of this grand coun.
try Of ours. There isn't anything
like it under the sun. You ough.
to send a delegation over TO e u'
the land OF the free-land OF fine
lchurche. and 240, 900 licensed "a.
Icons, Bibles, forts, and guns,
houses of prostitution millionaire
and paupers theologlans and
thieves liberalists and liars politi
clans and poverty Christians and
chain gangs schools and scalawag'
trusts and tramps, money ana mis-
cry homes and hunger; virtue ana
vice a land where you can e. .
good Bible for 15c and a bad drink
OF whisky for &c; where we nave d
man in Congress with thee wives
and a lot in the penitenllary ior
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 q the people
who eat it; where we put a man in
all 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
Tor preaching Christ on the street
corners; where We have a Congress
Of 400 men TO make laws, and a
Supreme court of 9 men who set
them aside; where good whisky
make. bad men and bad men make
good Cd whisky where rewspa-
pers are paid fer expressing the
ruth and men made rich for teach
.ng a lie; where professors draw
heir convictions from the same
place they do their salaries where
preachers are paid S2l COO a year to
the devil and tickle the ears
IF the wealthy where business
consists Of getting hold OF property
n any way that won't land you in
he penitentiary where trusts hold
up and poverty holds down.
men vote for what they do
rot want for fear they wont get what
hey do want by voting Sr ii.
Where ringers a vote and women
where a girl who goes wrong
= made an outcsst, and her male
partner hourishes as q gentleman
women wear false hair and
men dock their horses tails
the political wire-puller has
the patriotic statesman
where men vote for a thing one day
and cuss it 364 days; where we
nave prayers on the door OF our ma
iional capitol and whiskey in the
where we spend $500 to bury
a statesman who is rich and so to.
put away a working man who is
poor; where to be virtuous Is to be
honest il to be a crank were we sit
on the safety valve Of energy and
pull wide open the throttle OF con
science where gold is substance
the n thing sought for; where we
pay $4,000 for a dog and l5c a
dozen TO a poor woman Tor making
shirts: where We teach the untu
tored Indian eternal life from the
Bible and kill him of with bad
whisky; where we put q man in
jail for stealing a loaf OF bread and
in Congress for sealing a railroad
where the check book talks, sin
walks in broad daylight, Justice is
asleep crime runs amuck, corrupt
ion peTmeates our whole social and
political fabric, and the devil laughs
from every street corner. Come to.
Us Filliesl We've got the grestsst
aggregation Of good things, and bad
things, hot things and cold things,
all sizes, varieties and colors, ever
exhibited under one tent. From
the Appeal to Reason, Girard, Kan.
Impresses Himself as an Honest Man.
The Argos Reflector gives the
Governors Party" and especial.
ly Mr.. McWhirter himself a fne
notice, from which hoe are some
extracts
lowing to the fact that he was on
program fortwo speeches later in the
.day al Rochester and Macy. Candi-