New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-10
The TRIBUNE.

With searching examination OF Dir. Walkers he
mort and Bill for an. Protective Tariff, wherein
,ne leading doctrines of the Secretarys Report are
,opuested with each other, with the facts elected by
bis own inquiries and embodied in his testimony,
and With the provisions Of his own bill. This il ne
cessarily an article Of some length, but we think no
portion of 1t could well be spared Itis idle to ask
Frca Tradet. to read any thing on our side but we
think they might read this with profit if not with
satisfaction.
Political Education Craftsmanship is essay
based on Ceba's Citizen of Republic and Il.
Taylors Statesman We do not like the style,
! but II contains ,od suggestions.
Passages in The Life of Medical Eclectic will
be read with instruction and pleasure by those who
know nothing Of medicine.
A Sequel TO Vesiiges of the Natural History of
Creation by j. D. Whelpley is article we like
steering wisely between blind assent TO and
sweeping denunciation Of the startling theories OF
the Vestiges.'
Oliver Cromwell" by ]. 7. Headley, is one OF
the longest, and probably the best paper in the mum
ber The history of Cromwell and his time is con-
densed with signal power and fairness
'Typee' and Streets Poems the subjects OF
good reviews and October among the Ca,skills
by L. L Noble, is & genuine poem. We have no
room to speak farther. g. H Cotton. lis Nassau
The Condition of Poor Women In Cities.
To the Editor Of The Tribune:
Will you be 30 kind MS TO tell me-for the people say
that Editors know every thing-wl you please to tel
me whnt poor do to make living and sup
port her family The price Of female labor you too wei
know fer mention Suffice 1t cay, that at Plain
Sewing we might work night and day for the privilege
starving. If try Washing we fnd that the gentle
mentor ] dare not commit myself by calling them
men-hsve taken up all the Washing and Ironing In the
city. They have money and have bought machinery
with which they the clothes clean, while men have
the management of all the ladies' wearing apparel be
fore hcy 60 in the tub hire girls to iron, and can find
fy Of them who received cent amer working
for mcuths for those gentlemen washermen while they
rlde about in their gss with their gold chains and black
cons but told you their it would called a
libel and would be the Island Now II you will
tell nue. how get work work will give respectable
ferences us character and II you want my
work give washing enough TO pay Tor advertise
nent In your paper aud if il we'll done you need
not pay Tor H. am willing to work far merchants for
goods for boarding houses cheap for grocers for
ries and for editors for telling the truth about my work
hope you will this liberty your advice Is all
ask and have so often heard that you befrend the
needy that hope you will not refuse the poo,
II We publish the above as it reaches u.s. with
some needed cancellations in The grammar and spell.
ing. And vet we cannot satisfactorily answer the
Inquiries of our unknown correspondent. We think
her i'll feeling toward the conuivers of Machinery
for Washing, &c very mistaken though natural
The progress of Invention and Labor.Saving mus
continue until every department of Human Industry
10 revoutonized so that Head work is made TO take
to great extent, the place of Handwork, and Cal
culaton 10 supplant Force. Yet we see clearly
that this process must great suffering and de
graduation 10 class after class as is now most srik
inSly evinced in the case of the Hand Loom Weav
ers, unless counteracted by radical change il
our Social economy, whereby every one applying TO
it shall be guaranteed Opportunity to Work hnt
and earn living instead of being entitled TO an idl'
subsistence in some Poor House when all chances tC
earn it have failed him. The time sciN come whcr
men will hear end heed the cries of the suffering
and, not content with throwing them an occasiona
sixpence to mitigate the pangs OF hunger will earn
es,ly and canddly consider measures for the system
alic and permanent prevention of such evils, un
disturbed by the shameful and wicked outcry o
.Intidelity, 'Licentiousness &c. against ever,
plan for thorough Reform Why can we not hav'
amee,ing of the Unemployed Poor of our City, Il
lay their grievances before the public. Who viii
start IL? Ed Tribune.