Show I 1 THE TARIFF ON FOREIGN ART there has been war about the duty duly oil nil works of 0 art raging in this cou countey ritty j for years the rule lias has been that i whenever an american has gone abroad for a few weeks or months lie lias has come home with a kind of nind nes that the works ot of bit ait in europe have to pay tribute to conic come to this country an argument has hag been used inore over that we ke never could have great artists in this country until it was pretty well lifted filled UT up with works of 0 foreign art for or samples tyun pleA the tribune made comment oil ion tills this some years aso ago to the effect that people who milo buy pictures as an a rule do not patronize american artists rim ply because it Is not ot fashionable the rage being to havo have something foreign and ana the ic commended that the tariff should but that the pt proceeds 0 iao art should bo be used to art university in the capital of it 1114 callih Kal liH to give pro to lo the iho most moat distinguished artists bo be himml beyond the tea rom and no an randt let 1 00 that in ill a little t A aliko li would hf bc glad to buy ot mhd lit birli 4 uro product duct wo we pointed out aitho somo bajno that the lay day for greak aren wp n rk hid bad not yet come at riot not yet become established in our country for the rea afa 0 on that the lite highut art we ref r particularly ticul arly to hneil picture to never ill a nation until its iti bavo davd nearly all been developed loped un tild pation reaches the point 80 a to speak arx ak of rest in its ad l we va out f tur urther ther that moot of iho hii attl purchased abroad was by b the kor ko r itch rich people ot of our country that tile price made no difference to them anil and thai they were the very clam claa bf acoma who arho ought to contribute most toward the support lot ct the government we ive also alao expressed the belief that with the tariff thrown on off our country would 1 lie flooded d with ail kinds of 0 bogus and imitation ale plc turea lurea tr irum i abroad we think thi the worlds fair did very much toward opening ul he eyes of t tho the american people there were some line pictures thero there from abroad but there were also frauds fraud and tho the impression they gave eave one even not a rood good jud judda of art was that foreigners believing ours cure to 0 be an uncouth people and careless ca rele bout about their money matters would vey boy any number of inferior pictures so that they boro bore tho the stamp of some foreign ar alst il it and were exhibited under the patronage 0 f some foreign nation now INOW we find in the iho new york su sun a a 0 C communication 0 n I 1 muni cation by an artist and IL few words worda of 0 it are not ami after going through the whole subject he says bays aa ar artents tints wo we leei need 1 l no protection As pl aln business men we would benefit by it the finest class clae of foreign work will find ila way uny to this ihla country even it thero b ba it a very high tariff A reasonable reaBon able tariff would keep out the poor anil and nork cork bad money which would otherwise ho go abroad would eventually go to native art and bly help many 31 young to produce better work by linan more patro patronage |