The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1906-04-07
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The w. G. T. U: will meet with
Mrs. McGaritv Thursday, April
18th, at 3 p. m.
AT one time | would have been
very angry to have read such an
article as the following;but truth is
truth, and true speaking and writ
ing is what we are needing to day
Read it-see how many falsehoods
you can find in the column. | find,
| am sorry to say mot one. H.A.B
THE AMERICAN ooNeLoMERATIoN.
An Appeal to the Filipinos,by W. S.
Morgan, Hardy, Ark.
You Filipinos don't know what you
are missing by not wanting to become
citizens of this grand country of ours.
There isn't any thing like it under the
sun. You ought to send delegation
over to see us, the land of the free, the
land OF fine churches, 10000 licensed
saloons, Bibles. forts, guns, and houses
of prostitution; millionaires and pau
pers; theologians and thieves .libertines
and liars;politiciaps and poverty; Chris.
tians and chain gangs schools and seal
awags. trusts and tramps; money and
misery; homes and hunger; virtue and
vice; land where you can get good
Bible for fifteen cents and bad drink
of whiskey for five cents;where we have
man in Congress with three wives, and
lot in the penitentiary for having two
wives; where we put man in Jail for
not having the means of support and
on the rock pile for asking foo a job of
work; where we licenses bawdy house
and fine men for preaching Christ on
the street corners; where we have q
CONGRESS of 400 men who make laws, and
Supreme Court of nine men who put
them aside; where. good whiskey makes
bad men and bad men make good whis-
key; where newspaper are paid Tor sup
pressing 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 $4,000 year to dodge the
Devil and tickle the ears of the wealthy;
where business consists of getting hold
of property in way that won't land
you in the penitenti ary; where trusts
hold up. and poverty holds down.
where men vote fol- what they do not
want for fear they will 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 aud
her male partner flourishes as 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 1854 days;
where we have prayers on the floor of
our National Capitol and whiskey 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 be virtuous is to he 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; where we pay $4,000, for a
dog and fifteen cents dozen to poor
woman for making shirts; where we
teach the 'untutored' Indian eternal
life from the Bible and kill him off with
bad whiskey; where we put man in
Jail for stealing 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, corruption 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 ex-
hibited under one tent"