The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-22
ZEN thousand a Year.

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brilliant novel the above title, be Was init
mating the possession Of very large for
tune in his hero, bat if he had taken the
Archbishop of Canterbury as his basis OF
probabilities, he could have safely gone up |
TO fifteen thousand. Fifteen thousand pounds |
or seventy I've thousand dollars Ia the neat
little annual income of the thrifty Scotch |
man who is now called Arch bishop Of Can
terbury. If this isn'r paying for whistle
We have never seen an illustration OF that
process. Besides this, that gentleman has
the bestowaI of bene6ees 10 the amount OF
over fifty thousand dollars year which he
distributes among the Scotch cousins and
pepkezs Of himself and Mrs- TAFT Mrs
TAFT il the ,Arcabishopess. The other
bogus cbbiAhops and Bishops Of merr!
England range on down from this salary TO
fifty thousand and as Io~ Is twenty Eve
thousand dollars year.
How much longer will so serious farce
last Prospects do not look encouraging
for the perpetuation of Henry Wits hier-
arcby. Popular feeling in England is be-
coming every day more FESTIVE under the
personal privileges, immunities ard mono
poles established by Law. Aristocratic
preporderanee il rapidly waning before tie
growing power and self assertion of the
conmonalty. The whole system Ii beeom-
! ing unpopular, not only on account of its
| distastefalness to the increasing Thousands
of plebeians who are the peers of nobility
in every attribute of manhood, but by rea-
con also of its expensiveness. The avarice
of the Queen and the prcdigality Of some Of
her royal progeny are so burdensome to the
people as to excite frequent clamors on their
part, and they will be still less inclined to
bear other nonsenscal burdens which appeal
less directly to their loyalty. Perhaps the
most notorious and offensive of this class
| Ia the support of the established Church.
This is q department of the aristocratic
system. Its bishops sit in the House OF
Lords and its ministers wear kid gloves
and affect lordly airs. They are not of the
ment has found practical precedent and
the lesson has not been lost in England
The subject has been freely mooted the e1
tension Of the Irish policy to the Englist
Church has been proposed. 1t is one o.
those revolutions which cannot go back
ward. The first grand popular movement
in Great Britain must include the religion
r reform and leave my lords, their graces
J., out in the cold.
:. This finale cannot be long delayed. Tn
n highlands of aristocracy and exclusivenes
y are sinking steadily into the great and eve
= epcroaching ocean of popular power at
rate that can almost be calculated. Som
fine day the waves will roll over the las
= stronghold of Henry Wills priesthood, an
then every disestablished apostle will hav
,e to paddle his own canoe.
ia After that the end must soon com
e, Presbyterianism furnishes the brains f
Of Professionalism, but Episcopalianism SUI
y, plies its respectabilIty 1t is the latt
iy that gives it a standing, and its on
ro standing, with the higher classes. 1t won
Ct be absurd to think of Lords, Dukes, et'
as ranting Methodists or strait-lac'
"a. Presbyterians And so in this country Il
"a religious srobs all affect the Episcop
de persuation because it is the genteel thing
ng England. These elegant folks are in I
, g ligion just as in dress they must follt
he the fashion. AS the French Court dictat
y. the style of their head. gear, SO the Court
TN st. James sets the stamp of gentili;y up
OH their spiritual affairs.
- But what will Episcopalianism be aft
bv the disestabiishment Jast what t
worthless parasite is after being pluck
from it's sheltering tree. 1t has no root
zee. its own. Left to the support of ia vo:ari
OH and deprived of the magnih cent revenues
'ly. of taxation, it will shrink into the dTi
G it and shriveled proportions of the wither
Of parasite. It's Bishops, instead of sevent
onS five thousand dollars a year, will have to
itS content with five thousand. Its aristocra
$40 second son parsons will have to look to
,e, paternal purse instead of the nation
-. exchequer for the means to support tt
The elegant idleness. The clerical force q
.ge tanned by the free will of bona fde Chul
, at members will shrink wonderfully in M
de bers and still more disastrOusly in impc