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Have Christian Missions to India Been Su
These missionaries pose as friends of the poor; but did they ever tell you that the average income of a Hindu is about fifty cents per month. One half of the population of India has only one meal per day and with all this the pressure of taxation is increasing every day till the nation is almost driven to the verge of despair.
Millions live habitually upon wild flowers. The year in which Queen Victoria was proclaimed the Empress of India and whilst the government was spending thousands and thousands of dollars to proclaim to, a downtrodden and suppliant race the power of the Christian government, five millions 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 inquire into these horrible things to find out a remedy. But these missionaries and their co-adjustors started a commission to inquire into the evil of opium-eating in India, as if men who had not money enough to buy bread would indulge in the luxuries 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 some 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 agitations against a corrupted city government, your determined attempt to destroy all bossism has elicited the praise of the whole world; but do you know that an organization ten thousand times more powerful than Tammany 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 Tammanytiger aims at 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
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