Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1907-07-05
The American Circus.

"You Filipinos don't know what
You are missing by mol wanting to
become citizens of this grand
country Of ours. There isn't any
thing like it under the sur. You
ought to send delegation over to
see us r The land of The free u land
Of fire chulches and 10000 lcens-
ed saloons; bibles, forts and guns
houses of prostitution; million;
aires and panpers; theologians and
thieves; lbertines and liars; poli-
tieians and poverty; Christians
and chain gang; schools and
scalawags; trusts and tramps; mon
~ and misery homes and hunger;
virtue ard vice; land where you
eau get good bible for fifteen
cents and bad dunk Of whiskey
Tor FIVE cents; where we have a
man in congress with three wives
aud lot in the peniteuliary for
having two @iyes; where some
men make sansage 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 col pses out OF
the people who eat ii; where we
put 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 6ne men for preaching
on the street corners; where we
have a congress of 400 men who
make laws aud 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 suppressing tie truth and
made rich for touching a lie; where
professors draw their convictions
from the same place they draw
their salaries; where preachers are
paid S25,000 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 land you in the pen
iteuiiarg; where trusts holds up
and poyliy holds down; where
men vote for what they do not
want Tor fear they viii. get what
they do want by voting for il.
Where niggers can vote and wo-
men cant; where a glrl who has
gone wrong IS a social outcast and
her male partner houtishes as a
gentleman; where women wear
false hair and men dock their
horses tails; where the political
wire puller has displaced the patri- +
otie statesmen: where men vote
fora thing one day andcass il 364
days, where We have prayer on the /
floor Of our National Capitol and I
whiskey in the cellar; where we
speud $500 TO bury "a statesman I
who is ricn and $40 to put away a
working man who is poor; whore
to be viriuous and honest i to be
a crank; where we sit on the safety
valve Of energy aud 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 per doz-
en- to a poor woman for making
shirts; whore we teach 'untutored'
Indians eternal life from the Bible
aud kill them offwith bad whiskey;
where we put man IN Jail for
stealing a loaf Of bread and in con-
gress for stealing railroad; where
the check book talks, sin walks In
broad daylight, justice is asleep,
crime runs amuck, corruption per-
meates our whole social and politi-
cal fabric, and the devil laughs
from every street corner. Come
% us Fillies We've got the great
aggregation of good things and bad
hugs, hot things and cold things,
II sl2es, ver'etics md rclors ever