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A MARRIAGE: TAX.
INDUCING WOMEN TO REMAIN SINOLE.
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fing woman, for it will operate in For instance. It is not outside pruction as an inducement to her the sphers of practical polities for to stay single.
the WOMAN
unsoat the The immediate consequence Chancellor of the Exchequer at will be "fower" marriages amnfig the next General Election, if they fintependent women, an! more care to combine ia'order to givə "Collum,” writes in the Zkridy irregular unions,- The pltimate the floss of Commons a sahrozy | Cărusicle : - Can the potential consequence, when enfranchised little lesson. This talk of women power of the women's vote still womanhood realises the cynical|bacoming “chattels” on marriage Įsafely be ignored? Many persons | determination of the Government may be sound law. But now thật are asking themselves this now to continue an injusties because women am enfranchised, it is not that the_recommendations of the It is lucrative, to ignore the claim sound polities to treat theinvas Income Tax Commission are be of the woman to be treated as an "chaitels," and it is up to the |ing incorporated into the. Bødget, independent individast. while women. to demonstrate that. Under them, single man and making a concession to the man married or unmarried, they will women who earn their incomes on account of his taking unto wield the power of the rate in da- are les off lightly; but the women himself a wife this remains to fence of their personal independ- are to be discouraged from getting be seen. married. If they do marry, their separate incomes are to be bumped | --- together and the total considered as the raan's only, und taxed at
ence.
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MEXICAN PRESIDENCY.
New York, May
a considerably higher fate. The (oficial excusa is that it brings in a lot of money which could not be collected from married citizens, if. the tax were administered accord. fing to principles of equity rather than considerations of expedi. sary. Presumably the assumption is that women are too apathetic is insist on being treated fairly
After all, this "marriage tax “ is not merely unjust: in these
General Villa, interviewed at Chihuahua, indicates that if a satis days of mudern views and inde- pendent action it is injudicions, factory non Carranzist Government was established he would retire because it is likely to drive to private life and hand over to the Republic a vast amount of valua considerable number of protestles in his possession. Otherwise he would resume bushwhacking sional women, desirous of marry-campaigns. ing, into irreguliar unions.
Mexico City, May 21.
THE NEW ECONOMIC FACTOR.
A message from Texas says Adolio de la Huerta, Governor of Mexico City, has been provisionally elected President.
The repart is unconfirmed.
New York, May 21..
An ocial report announces that Carranza has been killed. Carranza was killed in an attack led by General Rodolfo Herre
AMERICA'S POSITION.
Paris, May 21.
In 1914, Sir Auckland Geddes formerly of the Carranza party who only joined the revolutionists last recently told us, there were week. The President was accompanied by his chief of staff and Senor) million women earing their living. Bonillas, ex-ambassador to Washington, both of whom are reporten In 1910 there were 414 millions, Į safe. whereas in 1919 100,000 fewer men were in employment than in 1914, The war has made the difference. Exonomic conditions | to-day make it necessary not, tools for vast numbers of singl The Council of Ambaðsadors has noted a communication, from
women to earn a livelihood, but the United States Government in which President Wilson accepts thei for a growing proportion of them San Remo invitation to arbitrate on the delimitation of the Armenian to go on earning after marriage. † frontiers. The counel has fire? June 4, for the signature of the Hua-
That is the new factor whichgarian Trasty Government either refuses to re- cognise or else hopes to take advantage of by continuing a
practice that is nothing more
nor less than a tax on marriage.
U. S. PRESIDENCY.
Chicago, May 21.
In former times professional Most of the 981 delegates to the Republican National Convention women could afford to give up have been elected No candidate seema able to enter the convention their work, if they wished, when with sufficient votes to give him a decided advantage. General they married. Nowadays. two Leonard Wood is favourite. people desirous of setting up a joint establishment mnat often choose between giving up all idea of marrying, or both con- tributing to the family income.
Neither party is willing to rush blindly into uneranomie matri- mony in the pleasure of living together. The man. earning a competence that sulines to keep. belozhe, ductor, insure, and amuse zippzomerpazojpuate fizpopopof_tzuk.
intelligent, self-supporting
WHAT WILL WILSON DO?
Washington, May 21. The House of Representatives has adopted the Senate peace resolution mentioned on May 16 which now goes to the President who is expected to veto it.
NEW YORK'S “DEADLINE.”
New York, May 21.
wordan to throw up her work. The man Armstrong who 4 being-tried for burclary in an office in her interests, and her life of the financial district made a confession revealing that a dozen young Sen were ezorat-ng-below. The deadline perdesing-Wall Street beyond which criminals dre supposed not to be permitted to penetrate.
hey had yet over a million dollars worth of securities.
Huture to his it that means that both of them mest a› underfed Land insufficiently eluthed, on an jine one that only get kept him
when single.
PANAMTAL MACÊ
AMERICAN TRADE.
Washington. May 22.
Nor is the woman brepared to
Ins Deportment of Lommerce reports that exports for April. jave up all the and her positive laestrongpen, showed a drap of snagungan empated with March,
independence in Exports for the past ten months, 35,714,600,406), showed a drop of) order to herning the man's unpaid $155,000 on Imports for April totalled $195,000,000 and for the last working bousekeeper as well as en month $425.000,500, his wife. She knows what future tu expect: she realisex tha: [patericóntea debitoshajansheen. children. She is not prepared to became a defaulter. If the two of them decide to go on working
T. 8. SOLDIERS BELIEF.
Washington, May 21.
The Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives
U.S. AERONAUTICS
at their several callings and a tree has ordered a favourable report on the Soldiers Relief Bill, providing to put their earnings together, a ten per cent. stock dividend tax. the marriage, though rod ideal, i becomes feasible. At all events, *** | to a man and woman who desire [to-marry-it-batterikan pemain- ing celibate. (One would have thought that a sensible Govern- ment would subscribe to that view.) With gare the couple mag save, and may even manage to set up in some little business their own. There is always the bope of a proper bome abend, With its normal family life.
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It is such marriages as these that the tax will penalise so severely that they will cease to
Atlantic City, May 21. President Wilson by wireless opened the Pan American Aeronautical Exposition. There was a large attendance of representa- tives of foreign Governments. According to the president of the avro clubs of America, a system of aerial trabaport is expected to bej established throughout the country this year.
U. S. RAILWAYS.
Washington, May 21.
The Inter State Commission has approved a loan of 8125,000,000-
take place at all- else the from the Government for a fund of $300,000,000 to enable the rail- contracting parties will agree to roads to purchase their equipotent. live together outside the legal bood.
It is true that the man gets a rebate on a wife, and also. on (children. But the point that will stick in the gorge of the independ-
U. S. FREIGHT BLOCKADE
Washington, May 21.
With a view to ending the freight blockade, the Commerce Com-
ent woman who thinks of marry-mission has instructed all railroads to forward traffic, regardless of ing him is that she, an independ- previous routings and abrogated all railroad rules governing car ent economic unit, will then have service.
hèr income taxed at o bigher rate than if she remained single, and that the income she herself earns is to be treated as ber busband'a.
THE CONSEQUENCES.
SHORT LIVED STRIKĖ
New York, May 21.
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The strike of milkmen bas collapsed.
FOOD RIOTS IN MADRID.
Madrid, May 22.
The bardship will be felt most) where proportion of the
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woman's earnings go back into her own business to develop it.
In effect, the tax, while in the
abstract it does not discourage a
The majority of the people in Madrid 'are breadless due to a. man from marriage, Will make it bakers strike. Food riots have broken out..
difficult for bhi to secúre '28 KÍ,”
wife the independant wage-ear-
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