Ten Letters on the Church and Church Establishments: Addressed to the Hon. W. H. Draper, M. P. P., &C, &C, &C (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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2. Your correspondent states as his second objection to the exclu-x sive appropriation of the Reserves, That it is taxing the entire pulation to support the religion of the minority. I do not wish at the present moment to interfere with the question of im propriety of 't' the exclusive appropriation but to draw your attention to the singular in ment here adduced against it; I can scarcely Rev: writer must have blushedlwith couse argun'ent'so manifestly founded on gross misrepresentation. To talk of an appropriation of the Reserves being a Tax upon the people, is rea ly a little too bad. Did they originally belong to the Crown or not? And were they, or were they not appropriated for a specific religious purpdse? How then can it be taxing the people to apply them to that purpose 'l says that as the labours ofthe pmehave given the Reserves their. Value, they therefore have the only right to dispose of them but Sir, a child must see the unworthy fallacy of such an argument, as any increase in value which the Reserves may have received is purely accidental the cultivators of the neighbouring farms, having had no design to improve them, nor ever having bestowed any labour upon them, cannot in common honesty have any claim Upon them; supposing for instance, an individual should erect mills in any neighbourhood previously destitute of them, and thereby encrease the grains {of the surrounding property 25 per cent, then if Mr. Ryerson's argument be founded on the immutable principles of justice, the own: ers of the said property are bound in equity to give the proprietor of the mills the said 25 per cent on their various properties; on the same principle, th first settlers in every township have a large individual claim on the proceeds of the lots that afterwards are sold. Will even your sophist this 2.

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