Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-02-19
The American Circus.
Published by requcrt.

Published by requert
r. W. Andrews, of Grand Rap ids
Michigan, at a recent toast got of the
following appeal to the FiliDinos:
you PHILIPPINES 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 delega-
ton over to see us-the land of the free;
land of fine churches and 10000 licenced
saloons; bibles. forts and guns. houses of
theologians and thieves; liberists and
liars; politicians and poverty; Chris
tians and chain gangs schools and
scalawags; trusts aud tramps; money
| and misery; homes and hunger; virtue
and vice; land where you can get n
bible for fifteen cents and bad drink of
whiskey tor Ave cents. where we have Il
man in congress with three wives and
lot in the penitentinry Tor having two
WIVES, WiiCtV StIHC IliVt NoNNsSe
out oil their wives, and some want to
cat them raw; where we make bolOgna
out OF dogs, canned beef out o, horses
and sick cows. and corpses out OF the
people who eat it; where we put man
IN Jail for not having the means OF SUP
port and on the rock pile for asking for
a job of work; where we licence bawdy
houses and fine men Tor preaching Christ
on the street corners; where we have a
and supreme court of nine men who
set them aside: where good whiskev
makes bad men and bad men make good
whiskey; where newspapers are paid
for suppressing 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 $4,000 a year to dodge the
devil aud tickle the ears Of the wealthy;
where business consists of getting hold
of property in any way that won't land
you in the penittntiary; where trusts
hold up and poverty holds GOWN
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 flourishes as a gentle
man: where women 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 364 days;
where we have PRAYERS on the floor OF
our National Capitol and whiskev in the
cellar; where we spend $500 to bury
statesman who is rich and $40 to put
away working man who is poor;
where to he virtuous is to be lonesome
and to be honest is to be n crank, where
we sit on the safety.valve OF energy and
| pull wide open the throttle of conscience;
where gold is suhstance--the one thing
sought for; where we pay $4,000 tor
dog and fifteen cents dozen to poor
W oman for making shirts; where we
teach. the 'untutored' Indian eternal life
and kill him off with bad whiskey;
where we put man in lailior stealing
loaf OF bread and in congress for stealing
a railroad; where the checkbook talks.
sin walks in broad daylight, justice is
asleep. crime runs amuck, corruption
permeates our whole social and politi'
cal fabric, and the devil laughs from
every street corner. Come to us Filiiesl
We've got the greatest aggregation OF
good things and bad things, hot things
and cold things, all sizes varieties and
colors, ever exhibited under one tent.