Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-08-02
EX-ALEXANDRIANS APPEAL.
Calls Attention of Filipinos to Mann
ers aid Customs Of the United
States.

James II. Lob, at one time pClltlcal
aspirant of Alexandra county. and
'asi.er "a resident of this city, recently
opened political headquarters IN Har-
Erisburg, Pa. During the campaign
.. for Governor of that state Lob Issued
the following appeal to the natives
of the Philippine Islands:
Filipinos did it ever occur to you
what you are missing by not wanting
70 become citizens of this grand coun-
trv 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
am! 10000 licensed saloons, bibles.
forts and guns, houses of prostitu-
tion,miIIionaires, and i5aupcrS, theoIo-
cians and thieves; liberists and liars;
politicians and poverty: Christians
and chain gangs; schools and scala
wags; money and misery; homes and
hunger; virtue and vice; land
where you can get good Bible for
fifteen cents and bad drink OF
whiskey for five cents; where we have
man in Congress with three wives
and a lot in the penitentiary for hav-
ino two wives; where we make bo-
iogna out of dogs, camiea beef out
of horses and sick cows; corpses
out of the people who eat 1t; where
we put a man in Jail for not having
the means for support and on the rock
pile for asking for a job of work;
where we license bawdy houses and
fine men for preaching Christ on the
street corners; where we have a Con-
rress of 400 men. who make laws and
supreme court of nine men VINO set
them aside; where good whlskey
makes bad men and bad men make
rood whiskey, where newspapers are
paid for supprcssing the truth and
made rich for teaching lie; where
professors draw their convictlns from
the same place they do their salaries;
where preachers are paid S25.ooo
year TO dodge the devil and tickle the
ears of the wealthy; whore business
consists of getting hold of property
in any way that won't land you IN the
pcnitentiary: where fortune holds up
and poverty hold down. where mon
vote for what they do not want for
fear they will not get what they do
want by voting for it; where mig
rers' can vote and women can't;wherc
a girl who goes wrong Is made an
outcast and her male partner flour
ishcs as a gentleman; where women
wear false hair ard men dock their
horses tails: where the po-
Iitical wirepuIer has displaced the
n,triotic statesman; where men vote
for thing one day and cuss it 364
! davs: where we have prayers on the
floor of our National Capitol and
whiskcy in the cellar; where we spend
$500 to bury statesman who Is
rich and SO to put away a working
man who is poor; where to be vlrtuous
is to be lonesome and be honest Is TO
he crank: where we 81 ton the safe
tv 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 fifteen cents dozen to poor
woman for making shirts; where we
teach the untortured Indian eternal
life from the Bible and kill him oil
with bad whiskey: where we put
man in jail for stealing a loaf Of
bread and in. Congress for stealing
railroad: where the check-book talks,
sin walks in broad daylight; justice
is asleep, crime runs amuck, cor
'ruption permeates our whole social
and political fabric, 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, varieties and colors. ever eX-
hibited in any part of the world. Re-
member we are now all Americans,
no North ami no South, one country,
and one flag and one God"