The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-04-02

Our Government So Described
By 4 Socialist Per.
tinent Suggestions.

are missing by net wanting to become
citizens of this grand country OF ours,
There isn't anything like it under the
sun. You ought to send a delegation
over to see us-the land Of the free
land Of fine churches and $50, 900 Ii
censed saloons; bibles, forts and guns,
houses of prostitution; millionaires
and paupers; theolOgions and thieves:
libertines and liars; politicians and
poverty; Christians and chain gangs;
schools and scalawags; trusts and
tramps; money and misery; homes
aud hunger; virtue and vice; land
where you can get q good bible for
fifteen cents and bad drink of whisky
for five cents; where we have man
in congress with three wives and a
lot in the penitentiary for having two
wives; where some men make sausage
of theirs, and some 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 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 for preach
ing Christ on the street corner; where
we have congress 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 news
papers are paid for Surpressing the
truth and mace rich for teaching
lie: where professors draw their con-
victions from the same places they do
their salaries; where preachers are paid
S25, 900 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 wont land
you in the penitentiary; where trusts
'hold up'' and poverty ''holds dowu;"
where men vote for what they do not
want for fear that they will get what
they do want by voting for it. Where
'niggers" can vote but women can t.;
where a girlwho gees wrong is made an
outcast and her male partner flourish
es as gentleman; where women
wear false hair and men dock" their
horses tails; where the political wire
puller has displaced the patriotic
statesman and gentlemen vote for a
thing one day and cuss it 364 days;
where we have prayers on the floor OF
our National Capitol and whiskey in
the cellar; where we spend $500 to
bury a statesman who is rich and $40
to put away workingman who is
poor: where to be virtuOuS is to be
lonesome, and to honest is to be a
crank: where we sit on the safety
valve of energy and pull wide open
the throttle II conscience; where gold
is substance-the one thing sought
for; where we pay $4,000 for dog
and fifteen cents q dozen to poor
woman for making shirts; where we
teach the "untutOred" Indian eter-
nal life from the bible and kill him of
with bad whiskey; where We put a
man in Jail for stealing a loaf OF bread
and in congress for stealing a railroad:
where the check book talks, sin walks
abroad in daylight, jnstice Is asleep,
crime runs amuck, corruption perme-
ates our whole social and political fab
ric, and the devil laughs from every
street corner. Come to us Fillies!
We've got the greatest aggregation OF
good things and bad things, hot
things and cold things, all sizes, va
rieties and colors, ever exhibited un-
der one tent.
The above was written by an Ar
kanas Socialist ana contains many by
perboles, but there are enough nude
truths in the article to make 1t inter-
esting and suggestive.