The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-08
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
THE SEVENTH FROM GRANT.
An Elaborate Review Of the Career
Of the Great Republic for
the Last Century.
THE DOCUMENT

ADVOCATES THE TAXATION OF CHURCH PRO
PRRIY, THE MAINTENANCE OF FREf
SCHOOLS, THE PRESERVATION OF THk
PEACE POLICY TOWARD OTHER NATIONS
AND DIsCoURAGEs TEE RECOGNITION OF
THE RELLIGBRENT RIGHTS OF CUBA, ETC
ETC.
To thesenate and House of Representatives:
In submitting my seventh annual message to
congress, In this the Centennial year OF oul
national existence as free and independent peo-
pie, It affords me great pleasure to recur to the
advancement that has been made from the time
Ofthe colonies, one hundred years ago. We
were then a people numbering only three mil
lion. Now we number more than forty million
aiVely to the ttllage of the soil. Now manufac-
turtles absorb much OF the labor OF the country,
nave been freed from slavery, we have
become possessed OF the respect, If not
the friendship, Of all civilized nations. Our
science, oommerce, Navigation, mining. me-
chan1cs. law, medicine, etc, and in general
our thirteen states have become thirty
eight, Including Color ado. which has
ana c1A eight S1e territories, including the In
dian Territory and Alaska, and exdudir g
S6e MsHsntic 10 the Pacic. On iSe sogth 1
have extended TO the gulf of Mexico, and In the
West from the Mississippi TO he Pacific One
the raiifoad, the Telegraph, the reaping sewing
and modern printing machines, and numerous
other inventions OF scarcely less value TO our
business and happiness, were entirely I'M
Known: In us our man an nufaet1rers scarcely ex-
In 1870 more than two millions or persons were
employed in manufactures, producing more
than Z. lOoOOoyOOO of produce in amount annu-
nearly the whole of the population OF I776 being
engaged In one occupation, OF agriculture, in
tSe so ana onr naq become
than six millions out Of more tn an forty
millions were so engaged. The extraordinary
such occupations has built a market for the
products OF fertile lands distant from the sea-
board and the markets OF the world. The Amer1-
can system of working various and extensive
manufactures, next to the pillow and the pas
ture, and adding connecting railroads and
steamboats,, has produced In our distant coun-
try result not equalled by the intelligent parts
OF other nations. The ingenuity and skill of
American mechanics has been demonstrated at
home and abroad In manner the most hatter-
Ing TO their pride. But for the extraordinary
ments Of our agriculturalists, manufacturers
and transporters throughout the country would
have been impossible of attainment. The
PROGRESS OF THE MINER
has also been great OF coal, our production
was small. Now many millions of tons are
mined annually. So with iron, which formed
scarcely an appreeiable part of our products
half a century ago. We now produce more than
the world consumed at the beginning of cur ma
tienal existence. Lead, zinc and copper, fronn
being articles of IMPORTS, we may expect to be
veIOpment of the gold and silver mines tnrouS6
out the states and territories has not been
upon the business of all commercial nations
Our merchants In the last hundred years have
had success and have established a reputa-
ton for enterprise, sagacity, progress and in
tegrity unsurpassed by the people of older
nationanues. This good name is not confined |
70 their homes, but goes out on every sea and
into every part where commerce enters. With
equal pride we can point 70 our progress in sll |
TO enter upon our second c en- a9HI'
our manhood as a nation, 1t is we'll /
TO look back upon the past and study what 1t |
will be best to preserve and advance In our
future greatness From the fall OF Adam, for his
ever been nee nom threatened dangers to n It's
and happiness. We should
power. We are . republic whereof
one man is good as another before the law
Under such toTs, it is Of the greatest import
and intelligence to cast a vote with a right IN
OF Its meaning. A large association
time oppose succe9sfu rerssaSyes considerable
or opposition from the educated few, butwiIi in
svitably sink and acquiesce to the
y the ss%as9ggue s, or by psies.crars Hence
nrst necessity for the preservation OF our insti-
.ptions- They are worth preserving, because
hey have secured the greatest good to the
Of government yet devised. All other forms OF
soyeTnmsnt s,RRroach Il Just in proportion to
oendenee of thought and action. As the
primary step, therefore, to our advancement in
III that has marked our progress In the past
Liberation ana most earnestly recommend
{ that constitutional amendment
tates for ratification making 1t the duty Of each
n the states TO establish and forever maintain
FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
adequate 10 the education Of all the children In
he rudimsntary branches within their respect
We limits irrespective Of sex, color, birthplace
Vt religion, forbidding the teaching in the said
chools OF religious, Atheistic or Pagan tenets.
prohibiting the granting OF any school funds,
school SH taxes or any part thereof
lents, for the benent of any other object of any
ature or kind. In connection with tins inn.
on 70 the Importance of corresting an evil
nat, II permitted TO continue, will lead to great
zenith century. IL is the accumulation ola vast :
mount of untaxed church properly. In 1880
tates, which paid no tax, municipal or state. :
moanted to about SS3O0t0. In 1850 the y
mount bad doubled In 1915, it Is about sfOOs,-
,at this property will reach a sum exceeding :
100000. So vast q sum receiving all the pro. b
sarine its proportion OF the bur5sns w snd
enses of the same will not be looked on ac- -
by those who have paid the taxes. i
Ances so rapidly with time as in the United !,
,ates, there Is scarcely a limit n
the wealth that may be ACQUIRED
? corporations, religious or otherwise
allowed to retain real estate without taxation 4,
D the contem plation OF SO vast a property as IL :
,re alluded 70 without taxation may lead to
questration without constitutional authority, q
OF All property equsiy rSeaEen c hue sa1s
operation, exempting only the last resting "
ace OF the dead and possibly, with proper re- d
ricdons, church edifices. Our relations with e
ost OF n
THE FOREIGN POWERS u
ntinue ON a satisfactory and friendly footing. Il
creased intercourse, the extension OF com z,
ara Nd the culffxat of national infarasfa N