The Washington herald., 1909-02-21
BAN ON THE BACHELORS
Proposed Legislation Against Unmarried Men Des
tined to Prove Their Undoing.

As a licensed bachelor. could you stiu
be happy? After paying a tax on single
selfshness and perhaps being tagged ike
an automobile. would living seem just
ike the same old joke2 Mr.. Bachelor,
best rise al once from your snug com
placency. for these are some OF the queer
things that mighty machine. society. IS
preparing 10 Go 10 your kind, says the St.
Louis Republic.
Married men are being told by women
reformers that every married man pays
his proportoinate part Of The bachelors 5
selfshness. Remember that the married
man controls the governmental forces and
that mothers and wives are the powers
behind them Mr.. Bachelor. married NO
men are planning your Waterloo
The murmUr OF the tidal wave that
swept the saloon from its moorings was
but The securing OF women's bro0ms and
those brooms are restless for another
hOusecleaning. They are about 10 begin
a crusade against the idleness Of bache-
IorhoOd- The women have discovered that
90 per cent OF those in prisons are bache-
lors
You stand accused by these crusaders
with 'infesting street corners. maintain
ing the saloons. where il still exists and
with supporting nine-tenths Of the moral
plague spots that are the problems OF
modern s0ciol0gists~ Mrs. Olivia Smed-
icy. president Of the AdeIbert Mothers
Club. the Mount Adams Society for So
Geological Research. and an active mem
Der Of the Society for the Placing Of
E
started the bali How can bacnelOrhOod
I ever stand against such a combination OF
fOrces2
The contagion is spreading ike a
plague. Missouri lawmakers are waiting
TO be shown the way 10 prevent those IN
single harness from escaping the team
work nature has laid upon all creation
state Senator Thomas 2. Kinney IS once
agdin pushing his bin that taxes men
who enjoy all the good things OF life
without paying for them" It may have
started IN jest. but IL has given birth 70
a serious suggestion.
Crusade Is Spreading.
Other senator's and representatives IN
Iowa. Texas. and some OF the Pacific
Coast States are joining the growing
movement that threatens to sweep the
land Ike the recent sandstorms which
dried UP the wet" spots in a parched
desert and sent a lot of persons hunting
new jobs. The crusades IS arranging
statistics against bachelorhood. Mrs.
/ Smedley says: Bachelors are bunch OF
/ sports who seem TO regard life as a joke
and run around playing horse Ike a lot
Of children"
/ II her desire and those who are foster
T ing this new form Of taxation have their
way the single man must register, wear
! tags. pay tax. marry within a pre-
I scribed time or give good and sufficient
! TO the progress Of enlightenment" When
/ the bachelors have the women after them
/ it is time 10 become alarmed for their
single cussedneSs.
/ Every bachelor must dig up so a year.
/ if the bill becomes q law in this state.
I and ne cannot be selfish beyond his rwea-
I ty-fifth year and escape the tax Col
/ lectors Of bachelor tax and bachelor
/ catchers viii dog the heels Of tie uuIi-
! ceused Of the dilinquent bachelor Life
VIII not be joke theE-it VIII be a howl
/ ing farce for the miserable bachelor who
+ cannot become unselfsh- CIose-@sted
! bachelors Viii begin 20 6gure. and after
( finding that they must pay S225o for q sci
/ fish life Of fOTty-five years. becoming I'M
mUne at seventy. they may come q re-
1 gard matrimony as the cheaper way 10
/ exist.
] three times the amount OF the tax 20