{"newspaper_name": "The daily union.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1276, "word_count": 238, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9639000296592712], "ccnet_perplexity": [1192.0], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
THE DUTY ON PICTURES, &c.-An effort is on foo
to get the duty works Of repealed by the pres
snt Congress. We see no objection to this, while
on the other hand there many which rem
der it desirable. II is certain, the law stands,
that few pictures Of merit are introduced into this
country from abroad, and the revenue raised from
such as do come here does not amount To a few
thousand dollars for the whole United States While
the duty, then, operates to the exclusion Of good
works Of art the total repeal Of would not in the
least diminish the resources Of the treasury. Nor
the duty be required for any purposes OF protec-
ton which are sometimes alleged in favor Of other
duties there is every reason TO believe that the
works Of our native artists would sell more rapidly
and extensively under the cultivation that would be
given to public taste by the general circulation
among US of works of high merit The love of art
is passion that grows by what il feeds upon; and
few things would benefit our native artists more
than better acquaintance the part Of the public
with the productions of foreign genius. Be this as
it may, however. there is no reason why the duty
on such kinds Of art as are not produced at all in
this country should be retained.


N Y. Epening Post.