Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — Would Tax Bachelors. [ARTICLE]

Would Tax Bachelors.

Illinois. Indiana, Tennessee, South Dakota mid Kansas legislators b.j've advanced ideas on tlrd subject of marriage and divorce. Temtessee, with Representative Bawls as spokesman, believes a healthy man of marriageable age should be compelled to pay dearly for Iris single blessedness. Mr. Bawls proposes' a law to tax bachelors ranging in age from 23 to 50 years, the scale of line rtinning from SSO for the men between 23 and 30 to $250 for those between the ages of 45 afld 50. It is figured that the man who remains a bachelor until lie is 50 years old will, if the bill should become iaw, have to pay a total of $3,850. , A Kansas State Senator believes in the limited term —say 10 years—for marriages, and he has introduced n bill empowering probate judges to issue licenses for marriage contracts which shall run for that length of time, with the option of renewal if the relation prove mutually agreeable. The Senator thinks a man ought to learn to lov* a woman, or vice versa, in a decad* if that blissful state is ever to be reached. As the result of a previous quarrel over a game of cards G. B. Phillips shot and Instantly killed J. Boehme in the waiting room of the depot at Whitman, Neb.