The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-12-08

OF VAST amounts oil untANeu CnuFCl pro-
peFty. In 1850, | believe, the church
OF the United States which paid
no tax, municipal or State, amounted TO
about $33,OOO,0OO; in 1860 the amount
had doubled; in 1875 it is about $780, OO,.
900. By 1900, without n check, il
is sale to say that this property
will reach u sum exceeding So 100000,
So vast a sum receiving all the protection
and benefits OF the government without
bearing its proportion OF the burden and
expenses of the same will not be looked
upon aGquiescently by those who have
paid taxes. In growing country where
real estate enhances so rapidly with the
times Us in the United States, there is
scarcely a limit to the wealth thatmay be
acquired by corporations, religious or
otherwise.
suggest the taxation Of all property
equally, whether church or corporation
eGempting only the last resting. place oil
the dead and possibly, with proper re-
strictions, church edifces.
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.
With most Of the Foreign Powers We
continue on satisfactory footing. In,
creased intercourse, the extension Of
commerce, and the cultivation Of mutual
interests, have steadily improved our re-
latiOns with the large majority Of the
powers OF the world, rendering practica
BILE the peaceful solution oil The questions
which from time to time necessarily
arise, leaving lew when demand extend
cd or particular notice ne corresponds
cnce Of the Department OF State with our
diplomatic representatives abroad Il
transmitted herewith am happy "a
announce the passage oil an act by the
General Cortes OF Portugal, proclaimed
since the adjournment OF congress, loF
the abolition OF seryitnde In the Portu'
guese colonies. 1t IL to be hoped that
zach legislation may be another step TO-
ward the great contamination to be
reached when no man shall DO permitted,
directly or indirectly, under any glise,
excuse or form oil law, to hold his fellow
man in bondage. ! am oil the opinion
a'7V 'H"' ~ 10 the H"'y W t"S CHi'e,'
States, us contributing toward that end
aud required by the spirit OF the
age in which We live, to provide by suita'
bic legislation that no citizen OF the
United States shall hold slaves as prop
erty in any other country, or he interest
cd therein.
Chilli has made repatriation in the case oil
the whale ship Good Return, seized with
out sufficient cause upward: OF forty
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