The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-12-08
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arroRrEp EHrEEssLr roE rHE MORNING. LrADER
n IG HIT R r. p O R T.
The Presidents Message.
WAsHINGTuN, Dec. 7.

CltiUeS
In submitting my seventh annual
message To Congress, in the centen-
nial year of our national existence aS
free and independent people, il af-
fOrdS me great pleasure 10 recur To
the advancement that has been made
from the time Of the colony, one
hundred years agu. We were then
people numbering only three million;
now we number more Than forty mil
lion. Their Industries were confined
.llmust exclusively To the tillHge Of
me soil; now manufactures absorb
IN Ich uf the labor Of the country.
Dur liberties remain unimpaiGed;
the bOndmeu n We been freed from
slavery we have become possessed
If the respect il not the friendship of
Ill civilized nation. Our progress
as been great in all the arts, IN sci
nee, agriculture, commerce. navigI-
ion, mining, mechanics, law, medi-
cine, etc, aud in general education
,he progress likewise has been en-
courhging.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION.
As We are about to enter on our
second centennial comm enclng of our
manhood as II nation, II Is wen 10 60
BACK 10 The past, and study what
viii he best 10 preserve aud advance
our Iuture greatness. From the fail
Of Adam Iur his first tran-gression To
tile present day, no nation has been
Tree from threatened danger To its
prosperity and happiness. We should
look 10 the dangers threatening u,
| and remedy them so lar as lies III our
power. We ire II republic where Que
! man Is AS good uS anOiher before the
Jaw. Under such II form oil govern
ment il Is OF The greatest Importance
that all should be possessed OF educa-
ton and intelligence enough to cast
vote With Il right understanding OF
its meaning. y large association Ot
| lguUrant meu cannot for any cousid-
cradle period oppose successfully II
resistance 10 tyranny and oppression
| Irum the educated few, but viii IN
! eHltably SINK Into acquIeScence Ia
the NIii OF Intelligence, whether dI-
| recteu by denugogue or prIestcrt1t.
| Hpuce education Of the nIasses be-
| comes of first Necessity 1or the
preservation OF our Institutions.
| rney are worth preserving because
| they have secured the greatest good
to Ine greatest proportion OF the pop
III NNl'ii VI WI
| yet devised. All other forms of gov
ernment approach il just in proper
IUn to the general diffusion OF edu-
cation and Independence of Thought
aud action. As II primary step,
| therefore, to our advancement i'll ali
that has marked our progress in the
past century, | suggest for your con-
slderatIOn and most earnestly recOn-
| mend Il constitutional amendment to
be submitted To the legislatures of the
| several states Tor ratification, making
| IL the duty OF each of the several
states To establish and forever main
| tain free public schools adequate to
| lne education of all the children in
the rudimentary branches within their
respective limits, Irrespective uf sex,
color, birthplace or religion, and for
bidding the teaching in said schools of
religious, athelstlc or pagan laws and
| prohibiting the granting of any school
funds or school taxes, or any part
thereof, either 10y legislatures, munich
palities or Others, for the benefit of any
other object, of any nature or kind
| whatever. In connection with this
! important question l would also cal
| your attention To the ImpO. lance of
| correcting All evil, that ii permitted to
con inue, will probably lead To great
| trouble i'll our land before the close
of the nineteenth century. 1t is the
accumulation of vast amounts of uu-
taxed church property. In 1855, he
lieve the church property of the
| United States, which paid no tax,
| municipal or state ~amounIed to about
SS3, 900, 900; in 1860 the amount had
doubled i'll 1875 it is abont 81 .0O0, 900, :
900. By l90J, without check, it is safe
to say, this property Will reach sum
exceeding SO, 900. .0J0,0JO, So vast
| sum, receiving all the protection and
heneti of government, without bear
ing its proportion of the burdens and
EXPENSES of the same, will not be
looked upon acquiescently by those
who have paid taxes. In growing
| country, where real estate enhances so
| rapidly with time, as in the United
States, there is scarcely limit to the
wealth that may be acquired by cor
porations, religious or otherwise.
CUBA.
fail to find the insurrection in ex-
istence of such Il substantial, political
organization. real, palpable and man
| IteSt To the world, having the forms
| and capable of the ordinary functions
| Of gov rnment toward it's own people
| and other States, with courts for the
administration of justice, with local
hahitation. possessing such organiza-
lion of force, such material, such nccu-
liation of territory as to take the con-
ttst out of the category of a mere
rehellious insurrection, or occasioned
/ skirmishes, and place it on the terrible
ooting of war, To which recommen-
'latinn of the belligeIency would aim
10 elevate it. The contest, moreover, l.
solely on land. The instruction has
not possessed itself of single sea port
whence it may send forth its flag, nor
has it any means of communication
| with foreign powers, except through