The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-08-29
A LIVE
HOOSIER
MAYOR
Has a Scheme to Make
all the Bachelors
Marry
Is Making II Tropical for
What He Calls the
HE Old
Maids"

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or, and ii is getting to be uncomforta.
BILE for this species of animal down at
Hammond, where he rules. There are
more than 300 marriagoable women.
young, middle aged. and OF wears un.
announced, in the manufacturing
town. There are only 100 bachelors,
and everyone of them has his troubles.
But these 100 won't marry.
The mayor down there has his own
opinion about bachelors. The mayors
name is Knotts-Armanis f. Knots
The bachelors say II ought to be
Knocks. Everybody else says he's
bully good fellow. and knows what
he is talking about.
Read these epigrams from his pen
and know why he couldn't get the
bachelor vote again ~ he wanted it:
The bachelor Is an agitator and
constant source Of trouble.
"The man who shuns marriage isn't
half as valuable TO a community as an
old maid who never had chance TO
marry.
Run down a man with n crouch
and you'll discover a bachelor.
The bachelor is TO the human fam.
lily what the mule is to the animal
kingdom.
"The mormon Is more OF a patriot
than the man who won't even take one
wife
"Td rather gee man with a family
of seventeen children than a male old
maid.
Employers and Bachelors.
These are the sentiments OF Mayor
Knots. He's brought the marriage
proposition to the front in his town.
and II the bachelors won't get married
he wants to know the reason why
He has called the employers into con.
ference with HIM, and II a man Is not
willing TO buy bread and butter for
two he is liable TO find himself out OF
job.
The employers taink somewhat as
the mayor thinks. They declare they
have had reason to think that way be-
cause. like the mayor. they trace all
the labor troubles which have shaken
Hammond TO the bachelor element.
The question has become n labor
question. Mayor Knott is reaching
out for new industries. He finds many
manufacturers arc afraid of strikes,
and he thinks he hGG found a cure.
and that cure IS to make the single
men double up. He has stirred up
pretty mess, but he doeGn' mind that.
The bachelor Is a disturber. That
Is the argument of the mayor. He be
lieves disturbers are bad for n town,
therefore bachelors are bad, and when
thcy make up big part OF the direc
tory as they do In Hammond things
often come 10 a pretty pass. his IL
the mayors lcgic and he is borne out
in his belief by the employers who
have made Hammond all that IL is.
Cause OF Unrest.
The mayor sent the first shot into
ranks Of the army Of unmarried men.
He wrote 10 the manufacturers In
Hammond ne stated that he believed
Industrial peace could be secured only
when the workmen were all married
and had the responsibility OF a family
upon them 10 keep them steadily at
work.
The bachelors heard Of the letter
almost before the ink with which II
was written wan dry. They thought II
an attempt to coerce them into matri'
mony. There Deing few unemployed
men in the suburb, this letter OF the
mayors hit at the bread and butter
supply Of almost every bachelor and
Immediately there went up a howl
The Bachelors club, an organization
composed of a large number OF the |
best-known eligibles in Hammond,
met forthwith TO protest. They did so
and at once sent to the mayor these |
resolutions:
"Whereas; Mayor ArmGnis F, Knots |
of Hammond wishes the manufactur |
ers OF this city TO discriminate against |
men in their employ In fav- |
or OF the man with a home; and,
Whereas, However willing We are |
at present to marry, we cannot get
wives as we can new shoes OF hats,
for they are pearls without price, that
money cannot buy; and
Whereas, We recognize that the
man does his share In the
upbuilding of the community, We look
with disfavor upon the idea that we
are 10 lose our jobs because OF the
prestige of the benedict; therefore. be
Resolved, That we petition the
to carefully consider
Mayor Knott's proposition before they
take action upon II and dismiss us
from their employ; and be II
Resolved, further. That We implOre
the bachelors Of Hammond 10 get
move on themselves and do all they
can for the mavor. judges. and justices
Of the peace In buying licenses and
starting homes for themselves; and
be ii
"Reselved. further. That We ask
bis honor 10 go back few years and
remember the time when he was child
less and wifeless and in no position 20
lake upon himself the burden of
making and Keeping up home"
Men are Fastidious,
The mayor takes very little stock
n what the bachelors say about being
lnable 10 ind wives. There are three
lines as many single women as there
are single men Ia the town. The