Show Tar lirt whom tho gods wish to destroy they first make inako mad canadian protection ests not to bo 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 IkIc mckinley McKin Kinley lcy bill which taxes tho the ends of cables that protrude on our soil chickens han hatched belied a few feet across our border line by careless hens that do not take tile the trouble to distinguish between their own owe and foreign countries and calves dropped in foreign tern territory tory bystrak by stray cows considering eiden si dering ru the size and population of their country and its greater dependence upon foreign countries canada lias 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 McKinl vy bill yet contain much dry humor mr louis P r post is one of the lecturers of tile the national single tax fax Lr lecture ture bureau his sin single io tax frici friends Ads in call C nada had arranged a series of meetings fox for him there and lie ho was on his way to fulfill engagements when the canadian customs officers stopped him lie ile had bal with him to illustrate ins his lectures a few yards yarda of cloth containing diagrams consisting of different colored lines squares and circles tile the officers came to the conclusion that these diagrams were paintings or drawings and that the artists of canada would bo be left unprotected from tho the pauper labor of the united states if a duty were not collected on thedia grains mr post paid the duty and will have one object lesson tor for the canadians canadian not down on his canvas |