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the pocket of men, but this terrible monster is sucking the blood of your people to spend it in good living in foreign countries and all this is done in the name of religion. The claws of Tammany reach only to a very few, but this tremendous wheel of cheating black-mailing and damning reaches the rich and the poor alike; it crushes under its weight old and young alike ; it has no mercy for the poor or the miserable, the schoolboy or the servant-girl, the millionare or the workman. Cheat one and all alike ; this is its motto. These saints talk of the caste in India; here is a caste of missionaries springing right amongst you; I have found there are hereditary missionaries for three or four generations and missionary bosses who control the appointment, the pay and the promotion for which the hungry hundreds of missionaries wait at their door. These holy men talk of the Hindu superstitions. They had better examined their cwn religion. A religion whose beginning is in blood, whose salvation is in blood, whose purity is in innocent blocd, whose hope of Saintship is in a dream of a see of blood, whose ravivals are brought about by a preaching and a vision of the sea of blood afresh, would do better by talking less of the superstitions of other nations.
My Christian brothers and sisters of America, your missionaries often glory in having taken upon themselves the task of educating the poor outcasts of India. In a lecture which I have had the honor
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