Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-04-04
NO. Is
TO TAX BACHELORS.
a Strange Proposition Being Agi-
tated in Canada
Tho Newspapers of tho Dominion Arc
Not in Favor of So Many Good
Men Col e to Grass as There
Arc ut Present.

There is Z serious movement in Cam
ada in favor OF placing 4 tax on bach
clCrs. For souc time past the Hamil-
ton Herald has been almost the sole adj
vocatc OF the proposition, but recently
that paper has been joined by the Mon
trcal Witness, the Winnipeg Free Press
and The Stratford Herald, three intlu-
CntiGl newspapers, and the merchants
Of Montreal and members of the Quebec
government have had the subject under
their solemn consideration. The Her
aid cCnfCsses that it has been deeply
p@incd by the tone of levity adopted
by the Canadian press in the past when
discussing this serious and important
question. But the close attention now
Eivcn to it and the dircctncss of the ar
igulacnt5 brought to bear upon it graf
ify cEC Herald and cause it to rejoice
that Canadian bachelors may now be
brought TO tEcn' knees. "1t is becOm-
ing Ecrc and mCrc apparent says the
Herald, THAT oEc great trouble with
Canada IS thc number of bachelors in
1t. They Grc allowing the country to
go to grass, IS it were, and instead of
trying TO cStGbii9h homes OF their own
they arc j@GCinG contentcdly along
darninG their own socks and keeping
themselves together by the aid of
nliinGlc nails and Eits Of rorc and other
accessories Of The bl.iIclor'G wardrobe"
This picture. OF course, IS little
Ovcrdra;Tn. But the evil is q serious
one. Canada ja3G now has many :;riGv-
anccG. Annexation, high rates of taxa
ton, discouraTCmCntS Of trade and de
preston in farming diGSriats, to say
nothing OF the cItInTlcncptS into
which half-tlozen eager political par
tics have Crlsyn her affairs. al tend to
make life in Canada anything but q
happy one. But upon ali this comes
thr OvcrpoWerinG knowledge that the
young men of Canada, Che T,dsddlc-aGcd
. lncn of Canada, and perhaps some of
the Old mon of Canada, arc failing in
the most essential part OF citizenship
by not getting married. The actual
condition that starcG the loyal Can2diau
in the face is, without mincirg matters,
that the men, by r2rlninihg single,
force the young women to become old
maids and the population. constantly
depleted by deportation to tho United
States, is not revived by marriage.
Thc@Icrald put the matter in its true
light b. saying: ''If the bachelors don't
brace up and fulill their manifest dcs-
tiny what is to become of them. and
what ure all tho dear, sweet, pretty.
loving ard loyable girls going to do? IF
the bachelors persist in neglecting
them" continues the Herald, There ia
nothing for it but to tax the young
men from s2y one hundred to five
hundred dollars year each, according
to their incomes, and it will be found
that they will very soon be brought to
realize that the happy domestic life IS
the only ono That is worth the living"
Another fact is apparent In this coil
nc3tion. Tho Yankee boys, apprecia-
ting tho beauty and worth Of the Cana
dian girls, seek them for wives. and n
short residence in the United States
transfers the loyal Canadian girl into
an apprcciative American. This is u
serious phase Of the matter for Cana
dians, and it is a true one, as apprecia-
tion for Canadian girls by American
young men is fully attcsted in poem
entitled: "My Sweet Canadian Girl,~
now going the rounds of the Canadian
press.