If we are tired of the separation of Church
and State, what made us dissatisfied?
If we have become favorable to a union
of Church and State, what are the reasons
for deserting the principle upon which our
State and Federal governments were or
ganized ?
The Wesleyan Christian Advocate says
that many States exempt from taxation the
endowments of church schools.
What has that to do with it? If every
State had gone astray on this question, there
■would be all the more, reason for Georgia,
to set them a better example.
Must w’g imprison people for debt, be
cause New York does it?
Nearly every Northern and Western State
furnishes free school-books to the children,
but I have never heard Bishop Candler, and
the Advocate, talk in favor of free text
books for Georgia children.
Nearly all the Northern -and Eastern
States prohibit the waste of child life in the
factories, but I can’t remember that Bishop
Candler and the Advocate have been ener
getically trying to keep our children out of
the mills.
No sort of property should be given a
special privilege, such as a yearly appropria
tion of the people's money.
To exempt the Boman Catholic schools
of Atlanta. Macon. Savannah, and Augusta
from taxation, is exactly the same as donat
ing public money to the Pope.
The ultimate title of all property of the
Boman church is in the Pope; and the
American prelates who hold the deeds, hold
them, under the laws of Romanism, as trus
tees for the Pope.
Bisho]) Candler, and .Senator John D.
Walker propose to- give away the people's
money to this foreign potentate, being will
ing to violate a sound democratic principle,
if the Methodist College in Atlanta can get
some of tb.e Im efits.
