Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — McKinley's Foreige Competitor. [ARTICLE]

McKinley's Foreige Competitor.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. Canadian protectionists, not to be outdone by their friends in the United States, have placed upon their statute books a measure that almost rivals in absurd features our own McKinley bill, which taxes the ends of cables which protrude on our soil, chickens hatched a few feet across our t order line by careless hens that do not take the trouble to distinguish between

their own tind foreign countries, and calves dropped in foreign territory by 6tray cows. Considering the size and population of their country, add its greater dependence upon foreign countries, Canada has duties that, judged by our own standard, are befitting our next door neighbor. Its administrative features, although not so ridiculous as those of the McKinley bill, yet contain much dry humor. Mr. Louis F. Post is one of the lecturers of the National Single-Tax Lecture Bureau. His single-tax friends in Canada had arranged a series of meetings for him there, and he was on his way to fulfill engagements when the Canadian customs officers stopped him. He had with him to illustrate his lectures a few yards of cloth containing diagrams, consisting of different colored lines, squares, and circles. The officers came to the conclusion that these diagrams were paintiDgs or drawings, and that the artists of Canada would be left unprotected from the pauper labor of the United States if a duty were uot collected on the diagrams. Mr. Post paid the duty, and will have one object lesson for the Canadians not down in his canvass.