The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-04-19
TO TAX BACHELORS.

A Strange Proposition Being AGitated in
Canada.
There is a serious movement in Cana
da in favor of placing a tax on bachelors. !
For some time past the Hamilton Herald !
has been almost the sole advocate of the
proposition, but recently that paper has
been joined by the Montreal Witness, |
the Winnipeg Free Press and the STRAIT
ford Herald, three influential newspa-
pers, and the merchants of Montreal and
members of the Quebec Government
have had the subject under their solemn
consideration The Herald confesses
that it has been deeply panied 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 given to it and
the directness of the arguments bearing
upon it crafty the Herald and cause it to
rejoice that Canadian bachelors may now
be brought to their knees. 1t is becom-
ng more and more apparent, says the
Herald, that one great trouble With Can
ada is the number of bachelors ia it.
They are allowing the country to go to
grass, as it were, and instead of trying to
establish homes of their own they are
jogging contentedly along darning their
own socks and keeping themselves to-
gether kby the aid of single nails and
bits of rope and other accessories of the
bachelors wardrobe.
This picture, of course, is little ever
| drawn. But the evil is a serious one.
Canada just now has many grievances.
Annexation, high rates of taxation, dis.
cOuragements of trade and depression in
farming districts, to say nothing of the
entanglements into which a half-dozen
eager political parties have drawn her
affairs, all tend to make life in Canada
anything but happy one, But upon all
this comes the empowering fact that
the young men of Canada, the middle
aged men of Canada, are failing in the
most essential part of citizenship by not
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that stares the loyal Canadian in the face
is, without mincing matters, that the
men, by remaining single, force the
young women to become old maids and
the population, constantly depleted by
deportation, to the United States, is not
revived by marriage.
The Herald put the matter in it's true
light by saying: ''If The bachelors don't
brace up and fulfill their manifest desti-
ny what is to become of them, and what
are all the dear, sweet, pretty, loving and
lovable girls going to do? If the bache
lors persist in neglecting them there is
nothing to do but to tax the young men
from say one hundred to five hundred
dollars a 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 one
that is worth the living"
Another fact is apparent in this con-
nection. The Yankee boys, appreciat-
ing the worth and beauty of the Canadi-
an girls, seek them for wives, and a
: short residence in the United States
; transfers the loyal Canadian girl into an
appreciative American. This is a seri-
Gus phase Of the matter for Canadians,
and it is a true one, as appreciation for
) Canadian girls by American young men
) is fully tested by poem entitled: "My
! Sweet Canadian Girl" now going the
) rounds of the Canadian press.
1t is said that the women in Kansas
, were the cause of the late defeat of the
J third party in that state. W hen women
are attending to busin ess they don't