The Washington herald., 1909-02-21

keep from having a woman on their
hands. This kind viii gladly wear sand
Wich boards, proclaiming their Infamy.
fore and aft. submit TO metal tags in their
noses and ears and suffer the odious word
10 be painted in vivid vermiIion on the
bald spots back OF their ears, only 10 be
permitted 20 sit alone in the front row
and ogie the chorus.
But the mothers clubs and the So
cieties for placing homeless children viii
not permit this shameless spectacle 70
continue. They have determined that the
only chorus 20 be permitted the bachelor
is that Of his eight OF ten children. after
the bachelor tax shall have become
so prohibitive that he must marry or go
into bankruptcy No. the curfew OF the
bachelor IS certainly beginning TO ring
and no amount OF steeple climbing and
grabbing the bell clapper viii avert his
doom
All the wealth Of bachelordom cannot
avert the ending OF single selfshness
The persistent bachelor, although wealthy.
may be coerced by graduated income
bachelor tax He may fight this form OF
taxation as class legislation. but. then
we have seen liquor legislated out OF
business by women. and the bachelor
cannot hope 10 dodge the violence Of a
I peoples wrath and disapproval OF his
failure 10 pay society something for the
privileges It suffers him to enjoy.
Mighty Revenue.
II his class cannot keep out Of the
, penitentiaries the state may next tax
/ every law-abiding bachelor in proper
ton 10 the number Of law-abidinE bache-
side prison walls n the end all sorts OF
good roads VIII thread the rural districts
and the country viii become spotted with
monuments 20 the heroes that popular
worship creates every tine a man does
his duty. by wireless or direct interyen-
ton. And the bachelors money viii do
these things.
When all the bachelors in the world
shall have been taxed. only two species
Of mammals viii then remain undisturbed
in their single state-Ostriches and goTil-
las, which as eminent nature takers as
I sure us. never mate but once, and then
live and die widOwers. Even this warn
ing applies 10 the fate that is being pre-
pared for their human single brothers.
Under most Of the proposed bills the
I wid0Wer is not permitted TO wear mourn
/ ing longer than three years. After that
period he comes again into the bachelor
class. That VIII not be a joke for some
widowers-
+ The bachelor must learn that he is in
I the way of serious people, the married
man and wife. He has been claSsed by
Z the. propa agandists as "a hindrance TO the
I progress and moral uplift Of the whole
social system" Legislatures viii be asked
whether they think * fair for husbands
and fathers. toiling day after day for the
: support Of their families and concerned
( with every enterprise that tends to ele-
vate and protect society. T. pay the taxes
/ that support the structure Of our civiliza-
tion-and the idlenesS Of bachelors be
sides. That IS the sort Of sledge-hammer
philosophy these propagandists are using
10 make the bachelor get right down TO
hard, grinding work and self-sacrifce-
+ What is the bachelor going TO do 10 avert
+ the inevitable2
Bachelors Are Things
According 70 the growing severity Of
mental attitude toward the bachelor. Ad-
am Smiths philosophy that humanity is
divided into persons and things. is being
used 10 distinguish the bachelor from the
/ full-grown man. The bachelors are things
and the married men are persons. The
! person is said to live: the thing 10 ex-
! ist The proposed tax would then be le-
/ We'd against a mere existence An oyster
! exists. but II has no Verrabrae. and.