The Delta independent., 1905-09-15
A Roast that sizzIes.

At receut banquet w. r. Andrews
of Grand Rapids, Mich. in response to q
toast, delivered himself Of the follow
ing appeal to. the Fillipinos:"
You Fillipinos 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 delegation
over to see us-the land of the churches
and 10000 licensed saloons; Bibles.
forts and guns, houses Of prostitution
millionairs and paupers, preacheas and
thieves, liberalists and liars, politicians
and poverty, Christians and chain gangs
schools and scalawags, trusts and
trsmps, money and misery, homes and
hunger, virtue and vice,-a land where
you can get bible for Is cents; or a
drink of bad whiskey for cents: where
we have man in congress for having
three wives, and lot in the penitenti-
ary for having two wives; where some
men make sausage out of their wives,
and some of them 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 peo-
pie who eat it; where we put q man in
jail for not having the means of sup
port and on the rock pile for asking
for job of work; where we license baw-
dy houses and fine men for preaching
Christ or the street corners; where
we have congress of four hundred
to make laws and q supreme court Of
nine men to set them aside; where
good whisky makes bad men and bad
men make good whisky; where news
papers are paid for suppressing the
truth and made rich for teaching lie;
where professors draw their convict
ions from the same place they do their
salaries; where preachers are paid $685.
90 a year to dodge the devil and tickle
the ears of the wealthy; where business
consists of getting hold of property in
any way possible that wont land you in
the penitentiary; where trusts "hold
up" and poverty "hold down." where
men get what they do not want by vot-
ing for it; where ''niggers" can vote
and women can not; where girl who
goes wrong is made an outcast and her
male partner dourishes Is . gentleman;
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 whisky
in the cellar; where we spend $500 to
bury a statesman who is rich and $40
to put away a working man who il
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 enegry and pull wide open the throt-
tie of conscience; where gold is sub
stance, the one thing sought for; where
we pay 81, 500 for dog and 15 cents a
dozen to poor women for making shirts;
where we teach the ''untutored" Indian
eternal life from the Bible and kill him
off with bad whisky; where we put man
in jail for stealing loaf Of bread and
in congress for stealing railroad:
where check book talks, sin walks
in broad daylight, justice is asleep.
crime runs amuck, corruption perme-
ates our whole social and political fabric
and the devil laughs from every street
corner. Come to US Fillie! We've got
the greatest aggregation of good things
and bad things, hot things, and cold
things, all sizes, varieties and colors
under one tent.
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