The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-21
,,,oIs Bachelors to be Taxed $1o Per
Year in Case the Interesting
Beall Bill Becomes
a Law.
PREMIUMS FOR BABIES
500 For Each Infant Born in the
state With the Money to Come
From the Tax on the
Unmarried Men.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March 21.-I
| Cash premiums for babies and $40
annual tax on bachelors over 35 years
old are the features of two anti-race
suicide bills which will be introduced
in the senate by Senator Beall. 500
for each baby born within two years
after the marriage, is the reward Of
te-ed, Twins draw 5000 and triplets
5000. The rewards continue for each
additional child born every two years.
The bachelor tax is to be set aside for
payment of the baby premiums.
The text of the anti-race suicide
bill follows in part:
Whereas, according to the censu-
Of the juvenile population made pub
| lie by the census director, it appears
that race suicide is prcvsient in the
larger cities of Illinois, and
whereas, it appears that an aver
age of only thirty-nine per sent of the
total population is composed of boys
and girls under 81 years of age. a
whereas many burdens are lifted
from the shoulders e ..arents and
there should be sufficie-, incentive
for large families. for an increase in
the population, for severe penalties
for race suicide, and
Whereas, it appears from authen-
tic sources and reports especially
amongst those who are designated as
the higher classes, and with whom
/ livelihood and luxury = more easily
obtained and possessed that pater-
nifty and maternity on large scale
have gone out of fashion, and
Whereas. according 10 authentic
sources, during all the ..riod Of our
recent history no year mss produced
SO few children as the last in the
state OF Illinois not only in its cities
but in its towns and villages as we'll
and that
Whereas, in the history of this
country and the state OF Illinois il
appears that never was there better
prosperity, upon so firm foundation
and,
Whereas it appears from officia
sources that in the rich yards of the
cities the districts rate is invariably
lower than in the poorer districts. and
Whereas, If present conditions arr
allowed to continue, i, can be showi
with mathematical certainly, tnat th'
families Of the upper classes witt
their share Of good qualities OF GU
race, will cease to exist, and that
Whereas, in order that the nHiiol
snail maintain it's numbers. an aveI
age of about four children should b
born to each marriage which produce
children and,
Whereas, legislation should be Ell
acted which will encourage the II
crease of population and severely pei
alize persons who use means to des
troy progeny, therefore the followin
bill is proposed:
Section l. Be it enacted to er
courage the increase of poulatio
and to prevent race suicide, thee
hereby created fund to be known a
The increase population fund to ell
3 courage motherhood in the state
lllinonis.
Section O. Provides for the pa,
ment of the baby premiums of SIG
% each child born in wedlock wit
IN two years of marriage or within tw
Years of the birth of its predece
sor
Section 3. Provides for the appl
cations appropriations necessary.
Section 4. Provides for the takin
over of funds collected as the bachele
'ax and succeeding section provic
PENALTIES for Illegal operations"