The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-01-02
Our Second Century.

u tie good osd ReppbjleED ehADcei tyT
another tuncred yesrs ~ leAsi- Wasa4Sg
TOT pfs<ided 0TeT the inIsiS! years Of ga
national existeDce. Il w&s hit &c cpsrslle4ec
wisdom. honesty aud cisirtsTes,ec ress
wbict removed every obstacle from ;be pa;t
of seIf-gore;rnent, AID Lot oUly rscdtted
q real Republic possjb be, bnt lEupehed !; o1
the brosd SEA Of ssieiy ard e2oesee-
( Wty should not Graft te s+co1o
Washington
be has al opportunity, rs III EE- He
appiebenos that tie m&ehIus ls growing
rusty AID needs f,esh Iupetgs from soube
master mind AID brhs p&;!iot ~ serd il
booming along Witt renewed noneutcu.
KDcrArirs is Lis watch word Of liberty for
Century NJ. ED 3es.iou snd taxation of
Orphan AsyiQus. These sre tie gIoTiou.
twir elemeuts tia, sb2lI make up tie elixir
of youth warranted 20 work foT : ceo,aTy
AID tbs, is as .oIg BE sny oIdinar? Fa:beI
oi bic County y! the esiiDre, cay Of " Wae.,-
ing,on, could TT expected 70 perpetaan
institutions AID thiuge.
How il tie world WEsairgtou's Certu.y
No. J got along ~ifh sach accicerta! ed1ca-
npp &c II cDaid PICK up, is tie mystery.
G'&ct isr', going u true: No. Z 70 ATTY s1ch
ctance. He is going " make a cure ttIrg
Df Il, ard saY. the Republic, By educating
every tocy. Washington did roi happen
" tLirk of tia: AID, therefore, lie .ef, al
op@ujng 70 other iolks 70 E1pe'seds hin ss
Fa,hei .oi lie Coun.ry, educiog 4in u Tie
raLk of C;spc-Fa:her. We canpo. really
pity him il tile mi.foIturs ~Lea We refec,
oD HE surptising on!i.s!on 70 have Crpha.
As: lQme AID Hospitals taxed.
Bat these two graud discoveries-Infdel
Education and Jmpious Tazatiou-though
put forward IL the message as d suE Glen,
presc; .p.iou 70 inhure the pa,!er,'s health
fpI another century, are not the only Eteps
Ut our new Washington in the path Of pro
gress. u mus, be Tetnern bered that in Its
cary days the great Republic war a mere
baby 70 what II is now, and, 80, every
thing about Il oughs u be Oh enlarged
scale. Thus, Washington thought TWO
terms enough for any PRECEDENT but Grant
can see clearly .ha. the Presidential in
cum bency ought 70 expand along with the
country's growth until II reaches az least
hres terms, if not more. Just az sa2J $50
year was al hight then, while 80 go
is the thing pow.
So, Grant, Father of his Country AT is,
Of part Of tie country and all tie Iegroes
-fnds that every thing has gone virt uously
60 far, and would continue to do 80 were it
not for the wonderful and highly dangerous
progress Of the Catholic Church. In his
far -sseiDg GAgacity he has provided for
this danger aud utterly hAnked II by two
bold strokes of strategy-education and
taxation. That IT,, he calls them tEO, while
in reality they are oHe and the came thing
1t il all taIation. The persecuting, OPP
pressiVe force of the school policy consists
in the school tax which Catholics are made
to pay, aud it il merely doubling the dose
to make them pay taxeS on all their char
ties. The Whole masterly invention Of
Father Grant il simply rehash OF the
Wnrmoth Carpet,bag policy Of robbery
adopted to ruin this State and the South
generally. 1t all begins and ends in
plunder, called 10y them taxation. Just as
it fs really war, while they call il p+4"s.
But Grant is quite satisfied with nI,t,eIs
as they stand now. The principle. upon
u
were laid, are, in his opinion, in full opera
ton to day. He exults IN the coming cen
tcnniAl celebration n. an honest dec laIatiUn
before. the world that our Institutions have
stood the tent OF an bundled years and are
stlti in full operation.
There can be no objection to the fac. that
MI. Grant takes that view of the case. but
h" wAnts the public to take the same view
Of IT,. He wants L0uisianiana to endorse it,
He wants the world ~ believe that self.
government exist. III tlis State; that
DuTci! did not elect one of its Lrgigfaturcs
and Sheridan organize another that this
aud other Southern States are not ruled by
alien advcnturers kept in position by l.. S.
bnyoncts that their people are not fieeced
of all their earnings under the guise of
taxation.
We sec no impropriety in the participa-
tion Of Southern States in the coming Cen