The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-12-19
GRANT AND THE CHURCH AND SCHOOL
QUESTION:.
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

We are sincerely sorry that president
Grant has made SO strenuous an ettort TO
drag religious questions inte politics lt
is an unworthy electiOneeripg device, which
will not bear discussion, and which is
pretty certain to react against his own
partly. Y. Herald.
The heaviest portione of the message re-
late to new questions which have not here
tofore been considered, and which there
is now no reason for considering as urgent.
1t is politics, not etateemaDship The way
of the Republican party is not President
Grants way. 1t will be we'll for the party |
il it's leaders in Congress read the message
for warning rather than instruction. so |
reading it, and seeing how all former issues
are ignored, they will do well to remember
the Quaint fable of the dog who dropped
the meat be had in his mouth for the
| shadow of it he saw in the water.-N. T.
Tribune (IndJ
We do not kown on what information the
| President bases his estimate Of the value
of church property, and We regard it as too
high; but the principle he proposes, though
not within the province of Congressional
legislation, is q sound one.-N. Z. Times
(Rep)
The President's earnestness 10 behalf of
free schools will call forth a general re-
sponse. But his proposed methods for
| reaching his objects are not 30 likely to
be approved as the objects themselves.
| Many persons who are entirely convinced,
as he is, Of the necessity of universal educa,
tion, are quite as sure that the Federal
Government should let it alone.
l No less wiee, in our opinion, is the recon-
mendation addressed to the Statee, We pre-
sumo. as Congress can have nothing to do
! with it, to remove the unjust exemptions
of religious bodies from their fair share
of the burdeas of taxation.-N. Y. EEen
ing Post lind
The proposition to tax church property
will be generelly accepted.
The Presidents apprehension that this
] question" may lead to sequestratien with
out constitutional authority and through
BLOOD" may seem to many to be need
lessly alarming, and perhaps it is; but in
4 this county, where every man has been
0 taught to regard himself as equal to an
other, there will always be danger for one
; class that is protected to the disadvantage
4 of some other.-N. Y. Commercial (Rep
IS The delivery of the latest Message o
j. General Grant to Congress marks one Of
:, the most important epocbs in the partisan
y history of the United States. 1t places the
- author of that Message equarely before
r, the country, not only as a candidate @
}. ident but as a candidate on the plat
form-for the use of that word seem
70 to have become allowable-of antagonisn
IN to the growing power of the Catholi
. Church. Should General Grant succeed
Id stirring up such q contest as he aims a
ne neighbor would be divided sgaint neighbol
s as friend against friend, brother againt
- brother, sister againt sister, and parent
rs against children and children against ps
It, rents.-N 7. Sun, (IHd)
m That part of the Presidents Messa&
m which refers to the question of commo
~ schools will fail, We trust, of it's tranana
oh ent object. 1t is the artful trick of Il
ea- demagogue, bidding for personal pop
of larity by an appeal to religious prejudic
'so and sectarian animosities. The nation
government has nothing whatever to
Dry with the establishment, care or oversig
II q of common schools. The proposal nc
ing made seems designed to introduce direct
us into the national politics those disturoi
no; no; elements which have embittered civil
e". sensions in all ages of the world. Ihere
b". no mistakipg it's drift of meaning.
and shall not willingly believe that this prop
the sition has the sanction of the great pal
feet which placed the present incumot
ome in the Presidential chair. As q bid
the personal popularity, with view to Il
oin, he re election of which, it Is eaid, he 9
Ue Oe fondly dreams it may be treated with G.
: to temptuous indifference. If it is to be
Inc corporated into party Platforms, and to
ten made the lever by which to stir up sect
holic ian strife and bitterness all over the 10
no one may foretell the far reaching de
r OF la,ion to which it must lead.-N Y. 10
,rior nal of Commerce Dem
ocle- We believe that Catholic and Protest
e ~ will unite in crushing out this bale
,or% Ie pestiledt proposition, and that in doing
,eart they will have the hearty sympathy
COM every man or woman VINO mas Cne sllBn
t his appreciation of the beauty and power {
been religious life.-Albany Argus (Dsm).
M. Mn: We cannot help regrettipg that Presid
but Grant should deem it necessary to imi
b, he that the simple taxation of Church pI
york erty at this day and in this country.
of q lead to "sequestration through blood. 7"
He is not o good omen that an executive ut
With ance at the threshold of the discussion {
Q re- templates a violent and bloody adj
vi SoI % ment. No words in any recent Mes
raVo. @Vo have been 30 pregnant of i'll omen as 4
ne Of two "through blood."-UticG He
. suf- (Rcp.)
d up We deem it safe to predict that
his whole the macs of his recommendat
SS.eo gu. which look to the future constitute
,Uosnt of political doctrine which will be acce
I God by the people as the platform of the
, vow ond centennial era OF the republic
erless whose adoption will swing it forward u
istiAu happy auspices into the second centu