Show GOSPEL Ml STRIFE I Mrs Hill Receives a Repjy from Washington t DEPARTMENT ON HER SIDE I Communication Says that Association Associa-tion Must Get Off or Proceedings I Will bo Taken IiTrs Hill Says the NoIse of the Revivalist Injure Her Business Difference Between a Saloon and a Revival Meetng Oliver Says There is No Red Flagon Flag-on Tent Will Obey Government The question of the occupancy of the I Fodoral building site by the Union Gospel association fur Evangelist Oli vcrs meetings Is again In evidence and from the attitude of the ofllclals at Washington tim big tent will have to be moved unless the Govcrnnlcnt recedes L fiom Its present position Mrs M E Hill who keeps a roomlng house on Main street Just north of the tent und who has protested against the meetings being held on the site has received a letter from H A Taylor Assistant As-sistant Secretary of the Treasury department de-partment PERMISSION WAS REFUSED The loiter states that the department declined on the 25th of July to grant permission to the Union Gospel association asso-ciation to hold revival meetings on the site and that instructions had on August Au-gust 2nd been sent to the custodian to warn tho trespassers off the site and In caso of neglect l or refusal to comply with the warning to report the facts and the names o the trespassers to the department In order that the matter might be brought to the attention of Department of Justice for appropriate appro-priate legal proceedings MRS HILL STATES HER POSITION In speaking df the affair to a Tribune reporter last night Mrs Hill said My motives In objecting to the tent on the Government lot have been misrepresented mis-represented somewhat I do not object to Mr Oliver or to his religion but I do object to public meetings being held there for the reason that the noise injures in-jures my business The Quaker doctors doc-tors were on the lot for a time and while they were there I could not rent the rooms on the south side of the house and I cannot rent them now except ex-cept that they are full tonight on account ac-count of the Elks excursion from Butte I has been slated that I should not object to the revival because there Is L saloon nearer my house than the tent SALOON AND REVIVAL MEETING DIFFERENT I But a saloon and a revival meeting are different propositions You can cause the arrest of a saloonkeeper 1C he runs a noisy place but you cant arrest a preacher no matter how noisy he gets 1 have had the saloon pulled at least a dozen times when it interfered with my business and shall continue to do so Then I contributed toward buy Ing the lot for the Government in order to increase the value of my properly and I dont think it fair to allow the premises to be used for a purpose that Injures my business I dont believe in making a bunko man out of the Got crntn9nt by Its getting money for one purpose and using It for another EVANGELIST OLIVERS VIEW Evangelist Oliver was nsked about the chances of the tent being moved and he said I am here under the auspices of the Union Gospel association associa-tion and It Is the association and not I that has possession of the lot I am aware that there has been considerable contention over the matter but for tho exact conditions at present I refer you to the committee I will say this much however that we are all American Ameri-can citizens and are willing to obey the orders of the Government there Is no red flag on the tent I believe that a pod Lion Is being prepared that will be sent t to Washington asking that the meetings may continue where they are now being held If It becomes < I becomes necessary neces-sary to vacate It will only mean the omission of one meeting and a move of the distance of one block as a site for the tent can bo had on either side of Fourth South street between State and Main We feel that wo have been misrepresented mis-represented at Washington as we have been neither noisy nor boisterous and having been permitted to go onto helot he-lot we will probably not leave It until we are so ordered as we feel that until the Government acts we as citizens have as much right to stay on the lot asother citizens have to order us orr I can be depended upon that If the Government speaks we will obey Its mandate |