The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-16
APROPOS OF THE VISIT OF
LIBERTY BELL"
An Appeal to the Filipinos by w.
S. Morgan, Hardy, Ark.

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 delegation
over to see us-the land of the free
land of fine churches and 100000 lie
ensed saloons; bibles, forts and guns,
houses of prostitution; millionaires
and paupers theologans and thieves;
libertines and liars; politicians and
poverty; Christians and chain gangs;
schools and scalawags; trusts and
tramps; money and misery; homes
and hunger; virtue and vice; land
where you can get a good bible for
fifteen cents and a bad drink of whis-
key for five cents; where we have b
man in congress with three wives and
a lot in the penitentiary for having
two wives; where some men make saul
sage 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 a 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 and
fine men for preaching Christ on the
street corners; where we have a con-
gress of 400 men who make laws, and
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 $4,000 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 "niggers" can
vote and women can't; where girl
who goes wrong is made an outcast
and her male partner flOurishes as a
| gentleman; where women wear false
! hair and men "dock" their horses
tails; where the political wire-puller
has displaced the patriotic statesman;
where men 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 states
man who is rich and so to put away
workingman who is poor; where to
| be virtuous is to be lonesome, and to
| be honest is to be a crank; where we
sit on the safetyvalve of energy and
pull wide open the throttle of con
science; where gold is substance-the
one thing sought for; where we pay
$4,000 for a dog and fifteen cents a
dozen to a poor woman for making
skirts; where We teach the "untutor-
ed" Indian eternal life from the bible
and kill him off with bad whiskey;
where we put man in Jail for steal
ing a loaf of bread and in congress for
stealing a railroad; where the check
book talks, sin walks abroad in day,
light, justice is asleep, crime runs
amuck, corruption 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.