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spending thousands and thousands of dollars to proclaim to, & downtrodden and suppliant face the power of the Christian government, five millons and a half of men, women and children died of actual starvation. Did the missionaries ever raise a voice for this? No. There never has been a commission to inqire into these horrible things to find out a remedy. But these missionaries and their co-adjutors started a commission to inquire into the evil of opium-eating in India, as if inen who had not money enough to buy bread would indulge in the luxurise of opium eating. Indeed there is no height of absurdity which hypocrisy does not dare to climb. The whole secret of that opium-commission and all such non-descript agitations is that these missionaries want more money "and by soine such method they begin the agitation and the money flows in ; honor comes to the wealthy donors but their dollars all roll into the missionary pockets,
Citizens of New York, your agaitations against a corrupted city government, your determined attempt to destroy all bossisın has elicited the praise of the whole world; but do you know that an organization ten thousand times inore powerful than Taminany could ever be, a hundred thousand times more vile and baneful in its influence than Tammany can ever hope to be is that clique known in America as the foreign mission board. The Tammany-tiger aims at
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