The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-02-06
poor QLD BAIA!EL0RS /!
HAVE HA|l|D| SHEDDING
According to Prope ective Legisla:
tion in New Y,rk and State .
Of hwa.
They Will be Taxed for the Sup
port Of a the Old
Mails.

NEW YORK Fb. 4.-Assembly-
man John T.. Farral. of New York
city, will INTRODUCES 4 bill in the leg
islature taxing All bachelors of 80
years or more. Anew feature Of his
plan, says the New York World, is
the organization Iof b state bureau for
the finding Of wivessfor bachelors VINO
wish to avoid tIlesiax. 4
There are. many people who want
to get n1arriedS. said Farrell, "but
they don't knowlh lhaW to go about it. I
have provided unsatisfactory manner
OF solving the p(oblem. With little
assistance they hNould be able to find
the proper partnses, and the state
matrimonial 9 bu4ean would do, away
With VIZ '!5tl the curses private bureaus.
n1ar-. aslr
ftfazes He sho,lll Ne sablesto have ..sew,l
ct divorces. ssAffS persons EpI,smplat-
ing niatrimony, according. to my law,
will have to SUI }bscribe their names in
a. public book so days before the date
dnd this would prevent elopments and
the runaway marriages which precede
most divorce suits.
'"This may be freak legislation, but
the day is coming when the state will
not permit the marriage Of two per-
sons entirely ignorant of each others
tastes. This would meet the case of
eloping children.
"Old folks should get the consent of
adult children"
Tax Distributed Among Spinsters.
Soon after general assembly, gets
under way a. bill providing for the
taxation of bachelors will be intro
duced by Representative Fred Hunter,
of Des Moines. It will be directed
particularly at Senator G.. C. Dowell,
of Polk, a prominent lawyer and bach
elor, whose avoidance Of the matri-
monial ties has bdn the subject Of jest
throughout mis- many years Of service
in the Iowa legislature.
Senator Dowell probably will be the
chief opponent of the bill. Represent
ative Hunters pr opposed act will pro-
vide for the levFing Of a tax of $25
nnually upon Eall single men past
the age Of 80. The money thus de-
rived will go 1ntp separate county
fund, to be disb4 4rsed to needy spin
sters and widows
/ While 1t was Hunters intention to
| tax single women VINO Stunned mar
r1age, he has decided that the blame
for the increasi1 number Of single
men and woman tests principally with
the men. This conviction coupled
with the desire td put Senator Dowell
and other bacne or members of the
assembly on the grill, has caused him
to conf1ne his effbrts to bachelors.
Bachelor Must Propose Annually.
A graduated scale Of taxes on
taxes on bachelof Is is provided In the
bill which Sena tor Claude Hudspetn
will introduce In the legislature. The
| minimum tax ta SO per ann111n on
bachelors rs to- 80 years Of age.
Bachelors 80 to 4 0years old must
pay $25. From 40 to 20 the rate is
only SO. All bachelors Of 70 and
| over are exempt
the bill. also provides. that each
eligible bachelor shall propose to at
least one won1al each year. Failure
to make affidavit that he has done
this and has hfen rejected subjects
| the bachelor to double tax.
It is also prov Fded that in the ranch
territory, where' marriageable women
are scarce, bal {helor may obtain ex-
emption from the tax upon making
affidavit that hf could not find any
woman in his {ounty to whom he
could propose .<..-~ - ,'>
| It. is estimatH that there are not
less tnan 10000 bachelors in Texas
who would be subject to-: the oper-
alton of the new law. as r. r
"a BOUT sE3 For FEB. 2s.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb. s.-An.