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Show INDIANA MAKRIAGE BILL. Hocslerdom hai a law making genius one who looks for Hie cause in considering the t-fleet. This Solon unlortuuaiely bis name baa not been made wdely public has found bis way into the Indiana legislature where he recently created f. Beueation by introducing a bill Hut blruck di-really di-really at the rrup-(.livo couuubial. happin'iH of iiinurru-d members. I and, ii.d-.ed, tbr a'.-h the present race of Urx-aier. We du not assert that tliu m.-n of Indiana are worse Lhao the mn of oiti. r utniL-a in re- grd to cerUin matters wbich tho billj proposes to deal with. Tbero are I obvious reasons why huc'i a cliaugel aboulJ not ua rade, chief among which is the res deo in the vicinage of several highly respected and chivalrous chiv-alrous rloosurs. But we will go so far as lo say the natives of Indiana are no better than aura. American cituans, and shill rely uiou the people peo-ple of thirtj-jeveu bt iln to defend the proposition. Tbo bill referred to provides lor pro hibiting the m trriage of drunkards drunk-ards and pero0nB ulUicted with a cciUin kind of dieta-:e that shall be namele). The reader will now understand how the measure proposes pro-poses to summarily break ofi'so many matrimonial engagements in Indiana, In-diana, and drive a multitude of young Hoosiers out of the state to Bearch for wives. Tho probabilities and possibilities pos-sibilities of the bill are wonderful and far-reaching. It is frightful to contemplate con-template the hordes of old maids that would booo result from the enforcement enforce-ment of the measure, on:l we can look upon tho lndiaua of the future as a bleak and barren waste, uninhabited, unin-habited, except by beasts of the forcit, when this generation shall have passed away. We say nothing no-thing of the difficulties aud intricacies involved in carrying the act into effect, ef-fect, such as the examinations medical, med-ical, physic), scientific and social that tho candidates for matrimony would necessarily have to undergo- The politics of the bill's author is not staled, but there w good reaeon for believing he is a greenbacker, and that ho has introduced this measure (or wiping out tho oilier two parties. It is certain th it he strikes at the republicans re-publicans aud democrats with equal force, and the tllct of his bill would be to exterminate the two classes. The provision in regard to whisky ie, as everyone oau readily understand, aimed at the democrat, and would unquestionably put a stop to marriage among the believers in that political faith, while the clause in reference to the certain dinease would amount to a prohibition of republican matrimonial alliances. We shall watch the progress pro-gress of Ibis remarkable bill with deep interest, because upon its success suc-cess or failure depends the future ol the raco of Hoosiers |