The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1885-10-27
SHALL BACHELORS B1 TAXED?
The Disadvantages of the State of
Single Blessedness Pictured in
Way to Make Converts
to MOrmOniSm.
Peck's Sun.

There is proposition on foot In sew
eral OF the Eastern States TO have law,
passed taxing bachelors certsin sun
each year. The Obi ct is two fold, tc
raise money f ON a non-producing cIas
ct citizens, and to place bachelors undet
q ban and show them that their manner
Of living with no object In view is no,
believed to be Of value to a community
There are two sides to all questions. and
the Sun does not know which side To
take, consequently it will, as usual,
straddle the fence Bschelo who are
such from choice will fight it out on that
line and claim that they had rather pay
a reasonable tax, or even an exorbilant
tax, than to marry. They will illustrate
their position by pointing to thousands
of married men who would be willing to
pay their last dollar in taxes if they
could be placed hack IN the ranks OF
bachelors. The bachelors will show that
on the average they are happier, and
more free from care, and enjoy them
selves better than the average married
man, and on that ground they ought to
be wiling to pay tax They will show
that bachelors are, as rule, rotund and
lily, while married men look as though
something vas eating them. There may
he certain alleged beauties about',he lif.
lof bachelor while be Is young end in
bis prime, but when he begins to gel
iI,old, and pains rack his body, sickness
e. ,nfines him to his lonely bed, and he
has to be assisted by strangers and hired
help. he will realize what fool he has
made OF b;mself and what failure his
life has been. N, wife or children to
minister 10 his wants, the bachelor is q
most f rlorD object. 1t is tben..tbat he
begins to look careworn. cross, and as
though something was eating bin, while
the married man who used to look tba.
way is happy and contented. 1t Is bet
ter to have some cares and discomforts
as married man at the front end of
lie, when one can endure then and see
piece Of clear sky ahead, than to have
careless picnic in early life with q
prospect of dark clouds all the time
after the individual becomes old enough
to need kindly offices from loving friends,
instead Of bring somebody 10 be sorry
for him at 50 much week. The most
pitiful object in life is sick old bach
elor at boarding house, hotel or a
hospital. 1t is then that he thinks over
bis list of friends. male and female, who
have homes, and be would give the
world 10 be an inmate of one of those
homes. He thinks of the girls be might
and ought to have married years ago,
and as hired nurse brings him some
pills to take he thinks how much easier
he could take them from the hands Of Q
loving wife or daughter A bachelor
with crick in bis back thinks the hand
OF the hired nurse who ruhs it is curry.
comb, and he thinks of some soft hand
he has held in bis, years ago, and b.
would give ten years Of his life il be had
given to the owner of that soft hand the
right to rub the crick cut OF his hack
but it is everlastirgly too late. II be
went searching for wife now he would
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toothless as he is, and her band would
be so harsh and bony that she would
produce two cricks in the back where
only one grew before. He realizes this
when be tosses in pain and the look on
bis face plainly shows remorse. Bache
lor friends NAV make formal calls or
him when be is sick and wish him s
1 speedy cure, but that kind of friendship
does not fill the bill. He dies and iht
bachelor friends act as bearers to hi;
funeral friends of earlier days ride il
the carriages as mourne-s, and talk abou
the blank lif. Of the deceased, but ther,
are no tears, unless there is sister who
comes from a distance to attend tn,
funeral and see about probating the will
The confirmed bachelor is in hard luck
and perhaps he ought to pay tax or
license, and wear check on his neck
so that all may know be is bachelor.