Show A BACHELOR TAX the statesmen of the missouri legislature seem determined to pass some sort of important legislation before they adjourn says the louisville courier journal the bill to prevent the wearing of big hats in theaters having failed fai leil representative julian of kansas city steps into the breach with a measure providing for a graduated tax on oil bachelors baclic lors between tile the I 1 age V of thirty to fifty five years alo 10 between the ages of forty and fifty years 30 between fort forty t five fine an fi fifty 1 ft y years 50 between fifty and fifty fine years 75 over six acito to twenty five per cent for their taxable vre wealth alth those abo fl ho believe that all men should marry may at first glance be inclined to favor this bill al though hough it does bearn inconsistent to tax ax a bachelor over sixty more than one under fifty it is generally believed that the latter does not marry because he wont while the former does not marry becaas he cant perhaps mr julian proceeds upon the he theory that when a woman marries names a bachelor over sixty she marries him for cihat he be has and that hat he will bo be treated liberally libei ally by the law if instead of alli tinning ding over all of liis is possessions to his ills allu cifa he ile surrenders only twenty five per cent of them to the state or perhaps he fixes lis liis schedule upon the assumption that ohp the man who n x ill not when he be can deserves no consideration ide ration iche if he can not when he will Ilo however wever this may be is ie it at all certain that taxing bachelors would the evil one of the groat political pal bailies ties of the counti countey v insists that taxation stimulates rather than checks and there are many bood people in both parties to the internal int antei einal nal revenue taxes I 1 I 1 on oil the ground that they give national recognition to the whisky and tobacco business buei nesa and make tile the government a pal aner therein if these ideas idea are correct would not tile the taxation of bachelors tend rather to encourage the evil of I 1 bachelorhood and put the state in the attitude of a condition thich is universally sally condemned dem ned the fact that mr julian the author of this thie hill bill is ig himI elfa a bachelor would seem t to 0 lend some plausibility to this interpretation of his hi 3 motives |