Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1911 — Five Dollar Tax on Bachelors Asked. [ARTICLE]

Five Dollar Tax on Bachelors Asked.

St. Paul, Minn. —The legislature of Minnesota is seriously considering a bill to impose'a tax of five dollars annually upon all male persons above the age of 30 years who are unmarried or who cannot prove that they are persons of such moral character as to be unfit for matrimony. It Is, designed to use the money collected by this “male poll tax" for the support of in? dlgent spinsters if the bill Is passed. According to the bill’s provisions It will be in force from and after February 29, 191*.