BACHELOR POLITICIANS,
UNMARRIED M.P. S DINE,
“MOUSETRAP AND MOUSE.”
LONDON, August L‘
Forty-two bachelor M.P.’s dined at the House of Commons last night. Sir Robert Horne, who presided, proposed the toast of “Perpetual Celibacy.” He said that Mr Bonar Law, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, favoured a tax on bachelors. He (Sir Robert) told him that it was the principle of British taxation only to tax people for their successes not their failure's. It was sometimes suggested that women in these days of equal rights would not pursue men, but he would not believe it until he saw the mouse-trap ' running after the mice.
Lord Hugh Cecil said that he could never imagine a Liberal or Labour man being a true bachelor, but a true Conservative was a bachelor from the fcradle to old age.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2715, 7 August 1923, Page 8
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