Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-03-23
AMERICA AS a GRAND CIRCUS.


ids, Mich, at a recent toast, got
off the following appeal to the Fill
ipinos: "You Filipinos don't know
what you are missing by not want
ing to become citizens of this grand
country of ours. There isn't any
thing 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, 900 licensed
saloons; bibles, forts and guns,
houses of prostitution; million
aires and paupers; theologians and
thieves; hberists and liars; politi-
clans and poverty; Christians and
chain gangs; schools and scala
wags; trusts and tramps; money
and misery; homes and hunger:
virtue and vice; a land where you
can get a good bible for fifteen
cents and bad drink of whiskey
for five cents; where we have 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, can
ned 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 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 a
congress of 400 men who make
laws, and a supreme court of nine
men who set them aside; where
good whiskey makes bad men and
bad men make good whiskey; where
newspapers are paid for suppress
ing the truth and made rich fol
teaching a lie; where professors
draw their convictions from the
same place they do their salaries.
where preachers are paid $25, O0C
a 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 thepenitentiary; where
trusts hold up and poverty holds
down; where men vote for What
they do not want for fear they viii
not get what they do want by vot
ing for it. Where 'niggers' cal
vote and women can't; where a CIR
who goes wrong is made an Outcast
and her male partner fourishes as
la gentleman; where women veal
false hair and men dock theil
| horses tails; where the politica
wirepuller has displaced the patri
otto statesman; where men vote fol
a thing one day and cuss it So
days; where we have prayers OIL
the floor of our National Capito
and whiskey in the cellar; where
we spend $500 to bury Statesman
who is rich and $40 to put away a
working man who is poor; where
| to be yirtuous 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 conscience; where gold
is substance-the one thing sought
for; where we pay $4,000 for a
dog and fifteen cents a dozen to a
poor woman for making shirts:
where we teach the 'untutored In
dian eternal life from the bible and
kill him off with bad whiskey:
where we put man in Jail for
stealing a loaf of bread and in
congress for stealing railroad;
where the check-book talks, sin
walks in broad daylight, justice is
asleep, crime runs amuck, corrup-
ton permeates our whole social and
political fabric, and the devil
laughs from every street corner
Come to us, Fillies! 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"