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Show THE TAXATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY. The New York Journal has started something of a discussion on the taxation taxa-tion of church property. Just precisely what the Journal's views on this subject sub-ject are it is not easy to state. Generally Gener-ally speaking it would have some taxes on some churches and no taxes on other oth-er churches. The Journal suggests the following: A good plan might be to exempt from taxation all churches paying their clergymen less than $1,500 a year. We are inclined to think that a church able to pay a clergyman ten or fifteen thousand dollars or more annnally could afford to pay taxes.- Is the Journal aware that no Catholic Catho-lic .church .in the United States pays its pastor more than $300 a year and that its suggestion, if put into effect, would exempt every Catholic church in the country from taxation? In view rf l.liio fuf ivViilt r1oe3 the Journal 1 think of its suggestion? |