The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-23

hide behind his church when the
devil is after him.-Railway Times.
Il TAX ON BACHELORS.
A Jealous reformer in the Texas
Legislature, named w. A. Moroney,
is advocating bill to tax bachelors.
Whether this measure il intended to
fill depleted treasury or to dis
countenance '.single blessedness"
this modern law-giver does not say.
The Legislatures of all the States
are at present infested with large
number of cranks and the Lone
Star State has her quota of them.
Among those wise men engaged in
shaping the destinies of that great
State, there is one who has an in
satiable thirst for notoriety which
he is determined to get, though the
heavens fall. He has introduced
bill to tax every unmarried fellow OF
thirty years of age. The only way
we can account for this ferocious
onslaught on the constitutional
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that Mr.. Maroney has probably
married a red-headed Texas girl,
bred on tamales and chili-con-
carne, and having failed to find in
his better-half the proverbial bliss
of matrimonial felicity, he envies
the lot of his more fortunate broth
ers who have escaped the fuzies of
an earthly hell, for
.IIeaven has no rage like love 70 hatred surn'd.
Nor hell a fury like woman scosned"
The sensible and well-informed
bachelor knows that his life is a
cherries void compared with that
of the man surrounded by the re-
fined and elevating influences of the
family circle. To his lonely heart
the charms of wed1ock are unknown
and the satisfaction that comes t
the dutiful father after. day Of
hard toll sounds like a mythica
story. The delightful pleasures
experienced by the fond dadd,
when his youngest boy spills 'nolas
!. SEES on his Sunday clothes, to hin
e are hideous nightmare. The shril
i voice of the sick baby crying TO
4 paregoric bears not to his ears tn
r remotest resemblance to music.
: Taking these things in considers
y ton any fair-rlinded person vii
Il agree with us that bill to tax thi
y class of unfortunate people is a
h unspeakable outrage and must hav
$ originated in the brains of Populis
r It is the raAkest kind of class legi
lation. Moreover, it can't Possibl
benefit the ladies, if it even indirec
ot " aims at that. In the first place
II who ever heard of an old maid VIII
&c was such for lack of opportun
: ties of marrying7 Old maids a.
\. old maids from choice, and if the
= are old bachelors it is because thu
le havn't the money or the courage
Ok venture into matrimony. Such
n law introduced now when it tax
from = to 12 yards of cloth to ma
n a pair of sleeves, is, to say the lea
IS cruel.
Sc We reproduce the following lett
.e which will show to the readers
n The Gazette to what extent the
a, internal reformers are carrying tt
an thing:
he Austin, Texas, March 6.-Hon. w.
Moroney received the following letter to-s
ed from friend at Hempstead:
an Dear Bill: see where you are introo
ing bill making it a penalty for man
live in single blessedness for term Ion
tho thirty years. This is certainly a nc
IA. as we'll as practical bill, especially when
catches neither you nor l, so see "
led plaiuly where your bill is right. Yes,
~. YES again, let those old stays get MARI
N"S and lead a life of usefulness as well as fr
nd fulness, and quit their bad habits and
al called single blessedness. And should :
W. make marriage compulsory among ma
not Pass law that all maids with small mou
- must get married, and all maids with Ia
y mouths get married twice and make a he
as fine for any maid to refuse the second OF
10. Hoping that you will annex this amendu
to your much needed bill, remain yours
the ever HARRY MEANY..
vas -- ----,,.
1 THE BOARD WINS.