The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-07-05
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(Reprinted by special request)
You PHILIPPINES don't know what you
arc missing by not wanting 70 become
citizens OF this grand country Of Oura.
There tsn't anything like it under the
sun. You ought 70 send q delegation
over to see us-the land of the free
land Of ine churches and 1900 Ii
censed saloons; bibles, forts and guns,
houses Of prostitution, milionaires and
paupers; theologians and thieves; lib
ertines and liars; politicians and pO-
versity, Christians and chain-gangs;
schools and scalawags; trusts and
tramps; money and misery; homes and
hunger; virtue and vice, land where
you can get q good bible for fifteen
cents and a bad drink Of whisky for
five cents; where we have a man in
Congress with three wives and lot in
the penitentiaTy 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
dog, can beef out of horses and sick
cows, and corpses out Of those who eat
Il: where we put man in Jail for not
having the means of support and on the
rock pile for asking for q job of wOrk;
where we license bawdy houses and fire
men for preaching Christ on the street
corners where we have a congress of
400 men who make laws, and SUI
preme court of nine men who set them
aside; where good whisky make bad
men make good weisky, where newspa-
pcrs are paid for suppressing the truth
and made rich for teaching lie; where
professors draw their convictions from
the same place they do their salaries;
where preachers are paid SIS, 900 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 penitentiary;
where trusts hold up and poverty
hold down; where men vote for 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 and her male partner
fiour1shes as gentleman; where women
wear false hair and men dock their
horses tails; where the political wire
puller has displaced the patriotic states
man; where men vote for a thing one
day and cuss it 1854 days. where we have
prayers on the first floor of the National
Capitol and whisky in the cellar; where
we spend $500 to bury a statesman who
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man who is poor; where to be virtuous
is to be lonesome; and to be honest is to
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 a 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 off with bad whisky;
where we put man in Jail for stealing
a loaf of bread and in congress for
stealing a railroad; where check books
talk, sin walks in broad daylight, JUS
tice is asleep, crime runs amuck, cor
ruptiOn permeates on the whole social
and political fabric, and the devil laughs
IrOm every street corner. Come to us,
Files We've got the greatest aggre
cation of good things and bad things,
hot things and cold things, of all sizes,
varieties and colors ever exhibited
under the one tent. mississippi Busy
Bee.
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