The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1905-01-14
THE AMERICAN CIRCUS.
The Greatest Aggregation Ever Ex-
hibited Under One Tent.
Ernm l.rcenvILIe Ono Adyoeale.

From trCrnE ilte tphtOF Advocate.
A prominent citizen ot the United States
iu giving a tnaS, got of the following:
you Fihpiuos don't know what you ARE
missing by not wanting to become citizens Of
This great land Of ours. There isn't anything
ike IL under The sun. You ought 10 send u
delegation over Ia see uS-the land ot the
fr.e-lani Of iine churches aud 40. coo licensed
saloons: Bibles. forts and guns, millionaires
and poverty; jheolugianS. chaln gangs, schools
and scahwaeS, trusts aud tramps, money and
misery. homes aud hunger, virtue and vice. u
land where YOU can gel "a good Bible for fifteen
cents or a had drink oi whiSkey for hve cents;
here VT can have mau in Congress with
three wives aud . lot in the PeuItentary los
having Two WiyeS where some men make Ssu-
save nut Of their wives and some want to cal
them raw, where We make bologna ont OF dogs,
canned beef ont of horses and sick cows and
corpses oug Of the people who eat It, where
We pu, man In Jail tor not having means ot
support aud on the rock pie for asking for
iob nf work, where We license bawdv houses
aud Gue men Tor preaching ChuSt on the street
corners. where We have n Congress of 400 men
To make laws and Supreme Court to 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 pro-
t;.ssors draw their convictions from the same
Mace they do their salaries, preachers are
Maid 50, 900 year to dodge the devil aud
tickle the ears At the wealthy, where business
consists of getting property IN any way that
xon'l land YOU in the Penitentiary. where
trusts hold up and poverty holds down.
where men vote for what they do not want for
fear they won I get what they do want by vot
ing Tor IT, where nggerS can vote and women
can't. where girl who goes wrong Is made
an outcaSt and her male partner iourshes as
a gentleman; where women wear false halr
and men dock their horses tails, where the
political wire puller has displaced the patri
otic statesman. where men vote for thing one
day and cuss it 364 days, where we have pray
ers on the floor of the National Capitol and
whiskey in the cellar; where we spend $500 10
IN bury a statesman who is rich and SO to put
away a poor working man, where 10 be virtu-
ouS is 10 be lonesome and 10 be honest is To be
a crank, where we sit on the safety valve OF
energy and pull wide open the throttle ofcon-
science, where gold is SubStance-the one
thing sought for. where we pay 1000 for a
dog and fifteen cents dozen to a poor woman
f,r making shirts, where We teach the 'un-
tntored' Indian eternal life from the Bible and
XIII him of with bad whiskey, where we put 4
man in iail for stealing loaf of bread and in
Congress for stealing "A railroad, where the
check book talks. sin walks in broad daylight,
Justice is asleep, crime runs amuck, corrup
lion pcrmeates our whole social and political
fabric and the devil laughs from every street
corner.
Come to us, Fllies! We've got the great.
est aggregation of good things and bad things,
hot things and cold things, all sizes, varieties
and colors. ever exhibited under one tent.