Douglas Island news., 1905-02-15
THE AMERICAN CIRCUS


 AIaskans who have no hankering af-
 ter citizenship should read the appeal
 to the Filipinos got off by W. R. An
 drews, at Grand Rapids, Mich:
 "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 a delegation
 over to see us-the land of the free land of fue churches and 40O6O Ii-
 censed saloons; bibles, forts and guns, houses of prostitution; Millionaires and paupers; theologians and thieves; iberists 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 bible for l5 cents and a bad drink of whiskey for five cents; where we have a man in congress with three wives and a whole lot in the pen itentiary 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 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 job of work; where we license bawdy houses and fine men for preaching on the street corners; where we have a congress of AGO men who make laws and 9 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 suppressing the truth, and made rich for teaching a lie; where professors draw their convictions from the same place they do their salaries; where preachers are paid S25,O00 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 laud you in the peniteutiary; where trusts hold up and poverty holds down: where men vote for what they do not want for fear they will not get what they want by voting for it. Where 'niggers' can vote and women can't; where a girl who goes wcong3is made an outcast and her male partner hourishes as a gentleman; where wo- men wear false hair, and men dock their horses tails; where the political butler has displaced the patriotic statesman; where men vote for thing one day and cuss it 3G4 days; where we have prayers on the floor of our Nation al Capitol and whiskey in the cellar; where We spend S500 to bury a states man who is rich and SlO to put away a workiugman who is poor; where to be virtuous Is to be lonesome and to be honest is to be 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; we give 8l5,OO0 for dog and fifteen cents a dozen to a poor wo- man for making shirts; where We teach the 'untutored' Indian eternal life from the bible and kill him off with bad where we put a man in jail for stealing a loaf of bread and in con- gross for stealing railroad; where the checkbook talks, sin walks in broad day light, justice is asleep, crime runs amuck, corruption permeates our whole social and political fabric, and the devil laughs from every street cor ner. 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 coIors, ever exhibited under one tent"