THE PROBLEM OF THE FAMILY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—I notice in the correspondence on the " Problem of the Family " in your last week's issue a renewal of the suggestion that immunity from taxation should be secured for fathers, at the expense of bachelors. This scheme seems to me to be based on the assumption that all bachelors are sufficiently well off to be able to marry at a moment's notice : the further presumption being that they continue in the single estate out of selfishness or pure perverseness.
But the truth is that many bachelors are under the painful necessity of " saving up " before they can afford to marry. Were a wise Legislature to exempt bachelors, under thirty years at any rate, from the burden of taxation, the bachelors would very much more quickly be able to follOw the course
of inclination and duty. I might describe myself as a " Bachelor but not bigoted," but I prefer to sign myself, 15 Wadham Garde-ns, South. Hampstead.
PHILIP STORY.
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