World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1908-05-14
IA Welcome Civilization.

liiihB VI the past. Inc red man is
now a full aedged citizen of the
United States. Poor Lo can now
appreciate what it is to be a citi.
; zen OF the grandest country under
} the sun; a country that has more
fine churches and houses of pro.
stitution than all the rest of the
world combined; country of
millionaires and beggers, preach.
,ers and thieves, liberalists and
liars politicians and poverty,
christians and chain gangs.
schools and scalawags, trusts
and tranps, money and misery,
homes and hunger. virtue and
vice. a land where you can get
a bible for - cents and have n
man killed for S.; where we send
a rich man to congress who has a
dozen wives, and send Door
man to the pen for having two
wives; where we ship illigitimate
children out Of the cities by the
car load, and where institutions
for the obstruction Of baoies are
advertised in the daily papers
and make fortunes for their own.
ers: where we laud as a heroine
a high class prostitute from the
chorus ranks who kills her para.
mour in drunken spree, and
and send scrub woman to the
Workhouse for stealing an old
broom, where we make bolocona
out Of dogs, canned beef out of
horses and sick cows and
corpes out OF people who eat it:
where we send man to Jail for
not having means Of support, and
send him to the rockpilc fer ask.
ing for a job Of work; where we
license bawdy houses and fine
man Tor ~ caching on the street
corner: where we have n con.
grcss Of l0n to make the Jaws
ana supreme court 10 set them
aside; where good men marry
Dad women, and bad men marry
5000 WonGn; where professors
draw ttrir convictions from the
same p'acc .Aey do their salary:
"hefc preachers are paid $4,000
a year to dodge the devil and
licRi' the ears of the wealthy
Wore the business consists OF
gcttinShold OF another mans pro.
perry IN any way possible that
that wont land you in the
pcnltent:ary; where trusts hold
up and poverty holds down:
where niggers can vote and
women can't where women weep
over the wrongs of the Tagalogs
and dock the tails OF their horses
where we rail at the Chinese for
binding their feet, and where
our women have become race
d deiormaties through tight
facing; where the political wire
pn''er has displaced the patriotic
statesman; where men vote for
'lie thing one day, and cuss it
'today", whore We have PRAYERS
~ the i'onr Of nur national CAPT.
:a'' and dancing on the upper
nor; where we spend $500 TO
'NFy a statesman who is rich.
'ha $40, to put away working
han who is poor; where to he
'taous is to be lonesome, and to
Ne ntst is to he a crank, where
We lit on the safety valve of en-
rsy and pull wide throttle of
where We pay $1,000
Df dog, and - cents dozen
an old woman for making
l'lrts; where we send a man to
ongress for stealing a railroad,
nd to jail-tor stealing loaf of
read: where the check book
where the women of
nr largest City sit down to u
anluet with nigger escorts and
penly advocate intermarriage of
lite girls with black men
here the check book talks in
'e pulpit and out of it; where
stlce la. one scale for the rich
I'd another for the poor, where
g devil laughs from every
rect corner, Welcome, Bro.
er ked Man to the Civilization.