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Show FAVORS MED FEES GEORGIA SENATOR'S SCHEME TO INDUCE EARLY MARRIAGES. Plan Provides for Free Wedding License Under 21 Over 50 Cost $50 Flood of Praise and Protest Brought On. Atlanta. Ua. Senator J. W. Taylor, f5 yearn of age, nnd 11 widower, hns bi ought upon himself a Mood of commingled com-mingled protestations anil commendations commenda-tions tluoiiRli his advocacy of a gntoT uated scale of inatrlago licenses. Senator Taylor Is u southerner of tho old bchool. He Is the highest Mason Ma-son In the state, Is wealthy, hns been In politics for years, and Is Immensely Im-mensely popular with tho ladles. Ho Is a man of Htrlklng uppcniunco, a magnificent llguiu, and us vigorous as a muu of 40 years. His prominence In the news columns col-umns of every leading paper In the country was ieally the result of a humorous Interview. Tho senute was considering a bill making uniform tho marriage license feoH of the Mute. It wjih not Senator Taylor's hill, but the legislative body was having u lot of fun out of It. Following the sennle debute, Senator Sena-tor Taylor gave an Intervluw In which he proposed n graded scnlo of marriage mar-riage license fees. If a man marries nt 21 or before, he Is to pay no fee; between 21 and 25, a fco of $1.50; between be-tween 25 and 40, it foe of $2.50, from 40 to 50 a fee of $10; from 00 to CO, a fee of $50. When a man gets past CO he Ih barred from marital Joys, "I said that 'n fun," declared Senator Taylor, "but I don't know but that I will really advocate a law of Hint kind Why shouldn't there be an net to compel a mnn to early enter marital relations? I am Inclined to be 11 Roosevelt mnn In one paitlcular wn I am dead against race suicide. There Is it strong modem tendency among young men to dodge tho married mar-ried relationship It Is an unfortunate tendency, nnd I do not know but that I would be per foi tiling poiterlty n gicat service In offering Inducements to early marriages "In my boyhood It wan a badge of honor for n man to marry as soon as ho reached his majority, and many married before that time. Young mon did not fenr to face tho icspouslhlllty of a family ns these anemic young fellows do thcuo days. Mnrrlngo nnd the parentage of progeny is a sacred duty of humanity, nnd any mnn who does his best to further that cnuBu Is right. j "IliipsWilillU 1" UJliinr 1111 amendment amend-ment to in) such n hill," said Senator Taylor lmlf whimsically. "I wnnt to exempt wldoweis from nny provisions of my lw. Widowers nro different. They hyo braved tho plunge once, und If if mnn Is daring enough to try it n second, third or fourth tlmo, ho ought to hnvo n clenr trnck. Why, 100k at this letter from a Philadelphia widower wid-ower He sayH he Is bereft of a hotter half through no desire or connlvnnco of his own. He was left with a back-yard back-yard full of small children, and thought he ought to havo a good woman lo look after them. I believe that (in) man who can persuade a woman to accept a largo and lusty ready made family ought to havo tho undisputed right, and havo n license handed him on n gold platter. If I could, I would vote tho woman a Carnegie Car-negie medj 1. "My highest object, however, Is to force n few benighted bachelors In tho Georgia sennto to bow to tho marital yoke. It Ih shocking to my mind how openly and shamelessly somo Haunt their untrammelcd freedom hero In the highest legislative body of the Empire Stnto of tho south, 1 am rather rath-er Inclined to tho Idea that I will Introduce In-troduce a kindred bill, making it n felony for a bachelor to offer for pub-lie pub-lie olllco In this stnto." Senntor Taylor has been mentioned ns possible gubernatorial timber when the term of Oov. Hoko Smith oxph-os. |