Connecticut western news., 1913-08-28
The American Circus.


 D. H. Harris. of Mendon, Mich, at a recent toast, got off the following appeal to the Filipinos :-
 "You Filipinos don't know what you are missing by not 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 10000 licensed sa- looms bibles, forts and guns, million aires and paupers l; theologians and thieves liberists and liars politicians and poverty Christians and chain gangs schools and scalawags trnsts and tramps; money and misery homes and hunger virtue and vice land where you can get good bible for fifteen cents and drink of whiskey for five cents where we have a man in Congress with three wives and lot in the peni- tentiary for having two wives where some men make sausage out of their wives, and some want to eat taem raw 1; where we make bologna out of dogs, canned beef out of horses and sick COWS, and corpses out of the people who eat 1t {; where we put man in jail for not hay ing the means of support and on the rock pile for asking a job where we have 8 | Congress of 400 men who make laws, and Supreme Court of nine men who set them aside ; where good whiskey makes bad men and bad men make good whis- | key 1; where newspapers are paid for sup pressing 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 $25 900 year to dodge the de- xx.1- 1r kl x,c @l, ,1eI, where business consists of getting hold of property in anyway that won't land | you in the penitentiary where trusts 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 mig gers can vote and women can't; where a girl who goes wrong is made an outcast and her male partner f1ourishes as a gen | tlenan where women wear false hair and men dock their horses tails; where the political wire-puller has displaced | the patriotic statesmau where men vote | for a thing one day and cuss 1t 364 days where we have prayers on the floor of our National Capitol and whiskey i'll the cellar : where we spend $500 to bury a statesman who is rich and $10 to put a working man who is poor where to be virJuous is to be lonesome and to be hon. est 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 $l5, ,000 for a dog and fif- teen 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 l; where we put man in jail for stealing a loaf of bread and in Congress for steal ing railroad; where the check book talks. sin walks in broad daylight; jus tice IS asleep. crime runs amuck, corrup- tion permeates our whole social and po- litical fabric, and the devil laughs from every street corner. Come to us, Fillies l We've got the greatest aggregation of good things aud bad things. hot things and cold things, all sizes, varieties and color, eyer exhibited under one tenG."