New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-12

il but it wont come soon enough to keep you
honorably in Oftice-rest assured of that do
for Free Land and unfailing opportunity for
every man to live by honest sweat, regardless
of great mems favor and the matabilities of
Politics Independence forever!
TIE WORLDS FAIR IN NETWORK.
We receive letters from valued friends who
marvel at our interest in the Worlds Fair to
be held next summer in this city, urging that
it will be practicallya show-shop and sales-rOOm
for European Wares and Fabrics, to the preju-
dice of our own Manufactures, and that they
must therefore regard il with positive aversion.
These friends should bear in mind that Meth
er they nor We are asked to decide whether the
proposed Worlds Fair in our City shall be
held That question was settled long ago.
The only question now open is simply this
Shall the Worlds Fair be mainly, if not
merely, q foreign shOw-shopl Or shall we see
what sort of fight can be made therein for
American Art and Invention We very de-
cldedly prefer the Iattcr course.
Our correspondents are not fully aware Of
the strength of their own position. The For
eign part of the proposed Exhibition will not
generally be of much value to our Artisans.
1t will be mainly made up of Results,-of
choice Wares and Fabrics merely-and will in
clude very little OF that which best rewards
study. OF French, British, German Fabrics,
Of the more costly and snowy varieties, there
will be q surfeit, while the Machinery used in
producing them viii be mainly withheld 1t is
no part OF the object of those who send arti-
cles to this Fair from Europe to teach us how
to fabricate the like for ourselves. They will
send US products for girls to gaze at and coyet,
not for men to adopt and profit by. We shall
learn something from their side Of the Exhibi.
ton, but not because they desired or intended
to teach us
Our own side will be very different from
theirs. We shall have fewer fabrics of re-
markable elegance or attraction; but we may
and should have an immense variety of Ma
ehinery, new Inventions, &c, dc. These will
not be much admired by butterflies Of either
sex, but they viii be scrutnized and studied
by our young mechanics, eur apprentices and
by the farmers sons of all the surrounding
country, with moral certainty of benefcent
results. We might have such collection o.
Machinery as the British had at the London
Fair; and if we should it could not fail 70 give
an immense impulse to Industrial Progress
throughout the Union.
And again: We should have the best posi-.
bic show of American Wares and Fabrics, in
order to disabuse our people of their unjust
prejudice against the products Of their own
country. There are many things we scarcely
produce at all-Silks aud Laces, for example
and others Of which the American production
is yet in its infancy, and of course very imper-
fect-but they who suppose that American
Manufactures are uniformly inferior to Euro
Pean whether in cheapness o. excellence, do
them great injustice. OF the Fabrics actually
exhibited in London by Americans, We think
very few could be surpassed, price and quality
considered, in any country; and there are very
many American Fabrics which were not but
might have been exhibited there with credit 70
their makers.
We urge, then, upon our countrymen the im-
pOrtance of complete exposition of American
Industry in all its departments az the approach.
ing Worlds Fair. Let whOsoever knows how
TO do anything specially well take care that his
capacity is duly attested in the Exhibition
No such opportunity for advertising either In.
ventiOns or Fabrics-provided they be worth
advertising at all-has ever been proifered on
this side of the Atlantic; and why should it De
surrendered to foreigners No-let US exhibit
specimens of our best Agricultural Products
our Minerals, cur Woods, &c; and let what
ever our people have well done in the province
Of Art, of Invention, Of Manufacture, be fully
set forth. A full exposition Of what our Coup.
try hes done and Is doing in the way of Invention
viii astOnish even the best informed observer,
and none more than our own people And.
bringing what we have done into direct compar.
ison with that has been achieved by others. 70
81 all readily detect our own deficiencies ana
discover the means Of obyiating them. Friend,