| Show NOT A CHRISTIAN ONE Mrs Hoffman Arraigns the United States Government r She Scores Blaine and Scorches the Nation for its Bad Faith With the Indians and Negroes Mrs Hoffman had a large audience at the Methodist church last night Her proposition propo-sition was that the United States Government Govern-ment is Not a Christian One She says that a Christian government would be one in which the spirit Christianity was in fused into all public matters That the United States had the word God in its con stituj ion but that inaU its dealings with the liquor traffic with the ndians and with the negroes it had not acted as a Christian government That the United States had encouraged the liquor traffic that Secretary Secre-tary Blaine had sent circulars to all the American ministers ia Central and South America ordering them to find out what chances there would be of introducing the beer traffic into those countries The United States has deluged the whole world with liquor and when the British parliament asked that the nations agree not to have any liquor traffic with Africa and the South Paclfid islands tho United States was the only nation that refused to cooperate In the treatment of the Indians Mrs Hoffman says the go Vermont has acted shamefully They have made treaties with the Indians and broken them and that they now owe the Indians 17000000 for reservations reser-vations which were bought and never paid for She repeated that the Indians had been driven to the present outbreak out-break by the cruelty of the government She said that the negroes were emancipated because the north knew they could not beat the south unless they did so jcollection was taken up and tho serVices ser-vices ended with a benediction Mrs Hoffman will lecture at the same place tonight to-night on The Subject that Faces Us |
