Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-28
GREAT AMERICAN CIRCUS
What the FiIippinos Miss BY Not Be-
coming American Citizens.

The following article is from a re.
spouse to toast given by w. r. An
drews of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in
an appeal to the Filippinos to become
citizens of the great American Repub-
lies You Filippinos don't know what
you are missing by not wanting to be-
come citizens of this grand country of
ours. There isn't anything like 1T un-
der the sun. You ought to send del
egation over to see us-the land of the
free-land of fine churches and 40, O60
licensed saloons; bibles, forts and guns
houses of prostitution; millionaires
and paupers; theologians and thieves,
liberalists and liars; politicians and
poverty; Christi ans and chain gangs;
schools and scalawags; trusts and
tramps, money and misery; homes and
hunger; virtue and vice; land where
you can get a good bible for fifteen
cents and bad drink of whiskey for
five cents; where wehave man in con-
gress with three wives and lot in the
peuitentiary for having two wives;
where some men make sausage out of
their wives, and some want to eat them
raw; where we make bologna out of
dogs, canned beef out Of horses and
pie who eat it; where we put 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
bawdy houses and fine men fer preach
ing Christ on the street corners; where
we have q congress of 400 men who
make laws, and supreme court of
nine men who set them aside; where
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men make good whiskey; where news.
papers are paid for suppressing the
truth and made rich for teaching lie;
where professors draw their convic-
tons from the same place they dotheir
salaries; where preachers are paid
t25, 900 year to dodge the evil and
tickle the ears OF the wealthy; where
business consists in getting hold of
property in any way that won't land
you in the penitentiary; where truths
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 voting for it. Where
'niggers' can vote and women can't
where girl who goes wrong is made
an outcast and her male partner
tiourishes as a gentleman; where
WOlD6u wear ldlst udlr dDu u1cu uOCh
their horses tails, where the political
wire-puller has displaced the patriotic
statesman; where men vote for one
thing one day and cuss it 1854 day s.;
where we have prayers on the floor of
our National Capital and whiskey In
the cellar; where we spend 5000 to bury
a statesman who is rich and $40 to
put away working man who Is
poor; where to be virtuous is to be
lonesome and to be honest Is 30 be a
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 dog and l5c
cents dozen to poor woman for
making shirts; where we teach the 'un-
tutored Indian eternal life from the
bible and kill him off with bad whiskey
where we put a man 10 Jail for stealing
a loaf of bread and in congress for
stealing a railroad; where the check
book talks, sin walks in broad day
light, justice is asleep, crime runs
amuck, corruptionp ermeates ourwhole
social and political fabric, and the
devil laughs from every streetcorner
Come to US Fillies! We've got the
greatest aggregation OF good things
and bad things, all sizes, varieties
and colors, ever exhibited under one
tent