The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-07-30
To TALK WITH MARS.
M'KlNLEY WILL ASK QUESTIONS
ABOUT PROTECTION THERE.

10 bTuStS sell oVous - Z ~ z tebt.
Cheaper to Foreigners Than in the "Pro-
tected Home Markets." Is Now Ready
for the Mars Statesmen.
Aprupos of the announcement by Edi-
son that it may be possible to converse
with the inhabitants of Mars, when that
planet in August approaches TO within
about $4,000, 900 miles of our humble
sphere, Major Mckinley has prepared a
set of questions which he hopes the in
habitants Of Mars will kindly answer in
time for campaign purposes here this
fall. McKinley's absolute faith in ''pro-
lection with its reciprocity safety
valves, "a the promoter of civilization
and the forerunner of the millennium
has led him to attempt the novel plan Of
going to Mars for campaign material.
The following are some of the questions
now ready to fire at the unsuspecting
Marsarian statesmen:
am Major Mckinley, author of the
Mckinley tariff bill-of course you have
protective tariffs there? Yes. l sup
posed so. | wish to ask a few questions in
regard TO protective tariffs.
Are those big marks which cross the
surface of your planet at right angels at
intervals Of every few hundred miles
really canals to facilitate communica-
ton and commerce, as our free trade as
tronomers suppose, or are they immense
A..:Hc $500. l.. lL.-.- MI ~ &c.,
home industries;
Do you make your tariff walls strong.
high and absolutely prohibitive, or dc
you leave reciprocity holes in the back
door for the benefit Of foreigners WHO
. will open similar "cat holes in thei,
walls?
Do you put d high duty on wool tc
: make it dear and on timed plate &c
make it cheap:
Do you take duties off of sugar be
} cause they are taxes upon the consumer
> and leave them on steel rails because
they are taxes upon the foreigner:
Q | suppose each division on your planet
let's III II few foreign goods-iust to give
foreigners an opportunity 10 pay ii,
| idhtN. VAN All Collilli rs Stl lINI III tili'
{ way: What ones can:
S Do YOU ever admit that the consumes
pays any taxes at all:
DO you manufactures by
S putting a duty on raw material?
Are your manufacturers grateful fol
the protection they get, or do you have
G to FRY the fat out Of them every cam
e paign:
e Have you Fiat Flyers Guide'-tha
is, ii list of protected millionaire manu-
n facturers like our New York Tribune
has published toad in raising campaign
l. funds?
IS Do you not find that competition vii
n lower prices faster when restricted t
small countries than when spread owe
IS the entire planet:
Do your protected manufacturers eve
lie form combines or trusts to prevent com
petition, restrict production, raise prices
lower wages and bring your whole pro
y tected system into disrepute:
Do these trusts then begin to sell good
lie % or so per cent. cheaper to foreigner
ID than in your protected home markets,
g, depending upon the tariff to proven
re home consumers from ~reimporting thes
goods:
'e DO YOU ever aid manufacturers III sci.
N inG cheaper to Foreigners by payln
drawback dutleS--l. e., relundlng dutle
paid on raw materials when such mate
y rails are being exported il II MANI
featured form:
Can YOU keep the farmers in line b
Ms giving them all the bogus protection an
re shoddy reciprocity they want. Will
@. their farms are declining in value an
III are m~ortgaged tudeath:
e. Do you succeed in getting the pcull
III TO believe thai yUu are making nearly a
Of your W timed plate ana employin
thousands Of American workmen, who
nd yoU are really making only | per cen
is of all, and this mostly from importe
Is plates and by imported workmen;
" DO you keep men on the free list an
II succeed in making laborers believe thu
hey are protected by Il tariff on VIII;
"a they COnsum":
IT. WHY j. it that labor in ~unrrotccte
n industries always gets better wages ar
has steadier employment than labor /
Of protected industries:
f Here in the United States We hay
TX projection against the pauper labor
ne Europe; hut. strange 10 say, III Euroi
lie the low wage countries all have prote
n ton against tn" high wage country
England. Have YOU got Il good arg
mcnt to explain away this apparent II
consistency: Do you have the san
trouble on Mars. or do the facts there
the protective theory:
40 !, cneapncs> a curse:
How do You make ii appear consistel
Ph 10 encourage inventions to make thing
rhcap and protection. 10 avoid the cur'
be of cheapness:
h. Wouldn't il be better to destroy III
he chinery. railroads and ships in order
in prevent cheapness and to provide mo-
employment for labor:
l., Is il possible that trade Is beneficial
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