Bisbee daily review., 1906-03-04
THE AMERICAN CIRCUS.

Douglas. Ariz., Mar. 3.-(Special) )-
 w R. Andrews of Grand Rapids, Mich. at a recent toast, got of the fol- lowing appeal to the Filipinos:
 You Filipiuos 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 undef the sun. You ought 10 send a delega- tioa ever to see us the land of the 4ee-land of fine churches and 40--
 3e licensed saloons; millionaires and
 &npers; theologians and thieves: lib
 fsts and liars, politicians and poy- ffy; Christians and chain gangs:
 cbools and scalawags: trusts and xramps: money and misery; homes and &unger; virtue and vice: land where you can get good Bible for fifteen cents and bad drink of whiskey for five cents; where we have a man in congress with three wives and a lot ip the penitentiary for having two wives; where some men make sau- sage 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 1t; 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 or the street corners; where We have con gross 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 expressing the truth and teaching a lie; where professors draw their conviction from the same place they do their salaries; where preacher are paid S25. 900 a year to dodge tht devil and tickle the ears of th< wealthy: where business consists of get ting hold of property in any way thai won't 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't get what they do want by vot ing for it; where 'niggers' can vots and women can't; where girl whc goes wrong is made an outcast and het male partner fourishes as a gentle man; where women wear false hail and men dock their horses tails; whre the political wire-puller has dis placed the patriotic statesman; where men vote for thing one elday and cuss it 3G4 days: where we have prayers oE the floor of our National Capital and whiskey in the cellar; where We spend $500 to bury a statesman who is rich and sl0 to put away working mar who is poor; where to be virtuOus if to be lonesome and to be honest is t 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 s15,000 for dog and fifteen cents a dozen to poor woman for making shirts; where we teach the 'untutored' Indian eternal life from the Bible and kill him of with bad whiskey; where we put a man in Jail for stealing loaf of bread and ir congress for stealing a rail road; where the checkbook talks, sin walks in broad daylight, justice is asleep. crime runs amuck, corruption permeates our whole social and politi- cal fabric. and the devil laughs from every street corner. Come to us, Files We've got the greatest aggre- gation of good things, hot things and cold things. all sizes, varieties and colors eyer exhibited under one tent