The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-27
Dr. the Union.
PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF THE PROTECT
ED LABOR OF THE UNITED STATES.


chsir~sn-Is your opinion that every protection OF
commodity operates as tax TO the community at large
Yes; most decidedly.
M VIli,rI-And further as a misdireetion OF capital
l.bOrl
Yes, /. tempting parties to embark in trade BY acti'
ous support which In the end may prove allacious
have osn wondered how any rulers could in
cur the responsibility Of such policy.
stance. under which protective duty can confer perma
nsnt and general benefit upon the community
think not while a. operates IN ayor OF the party in
real question issue Is do we propose to the nation
or to serve particular individually
Ckairmaa-WOud you remove our protection with.
out any foreign country removing theirsl
Most ceraInly and without asking them. feel quite
very little time II would be race with other countries
which should be " TO in FOR the benefit Of that
a.sI late ''craay 70 he board Of trade SssTs eo%%s
Of hs House Of Commons
The opening of the immense structure upon the
grounds adjacent TO the City Hall, and popularity
termed the whigwam Of the National FAIR, took
place on Thursday Of last week. Ii is gotten up
very crsditably and tastefuly upon plan similar to
the sni-dsesnnial exposition Of Pars-with this ex
o,ption, that here an admission fec is demanded
while there the public have free ingress.
Little can be said of the patriotism which dcta-
ted the moyement-it having originated from a COM
mittee OF treasurers, selling agents. and capitalists
representing New England corporations who visit
ed this city about two months since; and with view
the proposed revenue tariff, which is soon to come
up fer consideration in the House Of Representa-
tyes.
Feeling DESTROYS Of observing all that was national
and peculiar TO a country having, as an honorable
senator from Arkansas asserted, eighty-three per
cent Gifts population devoted to agriculture, enter
ed the building with the hope that my curiosity
would be thoroughly gratifsd. But here was
doomed to disappointment. Where, | asked myself,
are the samples of the various descriptions Of that
staple of which fifty TO sixty millions Of dollars in
value ia annually exported Where the cotton CIR,
in which the first process OF manufacture takes
place. Where the mill for grinding cane and pre-
pairing sugar. looked for such in vain. In lieu
thereof observed tables occupied by great variety
Of the product Of the loom-a species Of industry
employing a small part Of our female, and an unim-
portant part of our male populaton-controlled and
directed by members Of mammoth corporations
chartered by whig legislators of the eastern Stakes
members who are exempted by their charters from
personal neutrality-suspicious. with capitals suffi-
GENTLY powerful to drive to the wall and annihilate
at any moment their more humble competitors who
laber in those democratic States where no chartered
privileges obtain, retaining, after such chivaric
slaught. full possession Of the field protected by
class-eg slaed tariffs from foreign rivals and leaving
the whole consuming population Of the country at
the mercy of things which proverbia for shaving
no souls"
Musing among calicoes and cloths, my thoughts
ran thus: now, has the heretofore petted and PAM
pered child OF Congress- youngest sister Of agricul-
lure and commerce, attained its maturity, while in
infancy and in her teens, everything has been yield
ed by her eldes, ssters' For her sake they have
been
Content to starve, though she be warm"
But now, grown proud and arrogant, she threatens
her parent and strives to keep in the chimney cor
ner the poor Cinderilas who aided in eevatiDg her
to her present position.
As my eye ranged along the many tables on which
were exposed the wonderful results of the industry
Of man, it rested naturally, these warlike times on
the guns made by John Krider, Philadel-
phia, beautifully finished, and equal to any i'm
ported His is small establishment, en-
poying all male hands. What think you,
Mr.. Editor, is the protection he receives? Not
twelve and a half per cent. on his article. His
neighbour who makes stars and knots Of gold and
silver and articles embroidered in gold and silver is
protected by a duty of fifteen per cent, and from
that to twenty per cent; while the extensive sugar
refner from the same city derives a protection Of
nearly one hundred per cent. on foreign cost! To
support this latter assertion give data which may
be verified at the Boston custom-house.
Imported at Boston, in the Mary Francis, from
London, %, COZ pounds of crushed and loaf sugar,
costing with charges, 81, 496 90.
Duty on 22,602 pounds, at six cents per pound,
Il 1856 12.
Foreign cost of white sugar imported into the
United States in 1s45, S34, 4l9-duty S36, il7-duty
per cent. l04.93.
Cotton driilings.-The cheapest and best made
goods of this description were from the Laurel
factory, Maryland, and seemed full cent yard
better than those made by the Chicopee Company,
Massachusetts,; prices were alike, II cents yard.
Domestic shteiings.-Those made by Gambrill,
Carroll, & Co, Maryland, at 81 cents, bore away
the palm from all rivals The attention Of the pub
lie is requested to a comparison Of the cotton goods
made in Maryland and Virginia, with those Of
other States. Mark with what care the cotton is
cleaned, and how perfect and free from "weft
breakages" the fabric is Commend us to small fac
tories, where the eye of the master is, and not to
large interpretations, owned by absentees.
Fiannels.-From the Virginia Woollen Com
pany, Richmond; the 30-inch goods at 27i cents,
we're cheaper than any other exhibited. Its agent,
Caleb Jones, deems the duty in the proposed tariff
sufficient for him. and asks for no other.