Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-02-12
AMERICAS CIRCUS
Stirring Appeal to the FiIipinos
to Come and See 1t.
Published hv rennest.

Published by request.
You Filipinos don't know what yor
are missing by not wanting to becom,
citizens of this grand country of ours
There isn't anything like it under
the sun. You ought to send delega
ton over to see us, the land OF tn.
free, land Of fine churches and 1870, 00(
licensed saloons, bibles, forts ant
guns, houses of prostitution, million.
aires and paupers, theologians and
thieves, libertines and liars, polite.
iaus and poverty, christians and chain
gangs. schools and scalawags, trusts
and tramps, money and misery, homes
and hunger, virtue and vice. A land
where you can get good bible for
fifteen cents and bad drink of whisk.
ey for five cents, where we have a
man in congress with three wives, and
lot in the penitentiary for 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 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 support and on the rock
pile for asking for a job of work,
where we license bawdy houses ana
fine men for preaching Christ on the
street corners, where we have a con-
gress 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 whiskey, where newspapers 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 $25. 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 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 will get what they do want
by voting for it. where thieves can
vote and women can't, where a girl
who goes wrong is made an outcast
and her male partner fourishes as
gentleman, where women wear false
hair anti men dock their horses tails.
where the political wire ouller has
displaced the patriotic statesman,
where men vote for thing one day
and cuss it 1854 days, where we have
prayers on the floor of our national
capitol and whiskey in the cellar,
where we spend $500 to bury a states
man who is rich and SIC to put away
a workingman who is poor, where to
be virtuous is to be lonesome and to
be honest is to be crank, where we
sit on the safety valve of energy and
pull wide open the throttle of con-
science, where gold Is substance the
one thing sought for, where we pay
SIS, 600 for dog and fifteen cents a
dozen to poor woman for making
shirts, where we teach the untntored
Indian eternal life from the Bible and
kill him off with bad whiskey, where
we put man in Jail for stealing a
loaf of bread and in Congress fol steal
ing RAILROAD, where the checkbook
talks, sin walks in broad daylight,
Justice is asleep, crime runs amuck,
permeats 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 exhibited under one tent.
W. S. MORGAN |