New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-24
Tile RroFNEnATroy OF TunKsv.

TIE LOf don Times, in treating Of the Invalid ana
decayed condition Of Turkey says that the renecy tor
the existing state Of tbngs in that country seems to
lie not 20 much in the trsnserence OF dominion from
one race 70 the other in the introduction OF some
third element which may control and amalgamate the
10th Turkey, SAYS the English authority is desoate
land and tie appropriate remedy for such state of
desolatOu in Turkey as elsewhere. 70 consist IN
colonization. Suppose continues The Times Turkey
were at this moment a part of the American Uaion,
nho can doubt that her would be developed
her wilds pecpled and her cities filed with peculiar
Lind of civilization, and that few years OF such en-
ercetic administration would raise bulwark between
,he Pruth and the Egean which all the gold aud all
the force and the diplomacy of Russia would be unable
topass
So be it. We will admit for the moment that colo
nzation Is just whst Turkey wants. But what an su
thory the chief organ of the British free traders to
recommend colonization, when is precisely that free
trade which it uphods that keeps Turkey in state Of
begeary tnd imbecy, requiring her to call in the aid
Of foreign powers to save her from ahaihilaton Be
sides, who ever heard Of emigration to a country loag
s1c ruined ard exhausted Emigration hows
naturally to the Uni,ed States because protection has
Try insurrg employment and compensation to artisans
il every branch In Turkey there is nothing of this
Her spinning al weaving and all the little local ID
dustres ard domestic manufactures mentioned in the
Arabian Nights and still further back in the Bible as
part of the prosperity of Oriental empires have been
permitted 10 relax and fall to decay without the
coming in Of modern machinery and science to
take their place. And what has caused this
WHY. chiefly 8 treaty made at the ins.igatiOn
Of England which the ignorance of political
economy on the part OF Turkey prevented her from
seeing through under which English goods are admit
fed at three per cent duty while still higher tax is
levied On domestic exports This is what has done the
most to emasculate and overthrow the Turkish power
because it has sapped the independence of the people
at It's very foundations and if the Ottoman Empire is
ever to regain truly respectable position it must be
through the reversal of this fatal policy Russia has
gained so greatly in strength and national consistency
during the past forty years because she has protected
her indusy and developed the native resources of
her soil and people. Turkey has sunk in the scale
because she has pursued opposite course and has
allowed her manufactures to be annhilated, aud has
surrendered her markets TO the products Of Brming
ham and Manchester She may need more people, and
those Of the right sort but their efforts even though
NewEDeland were smptied into her, would be fruit
les under her present system of import and export
duties If the Sultan could lay heavy mposts on En-
gi.h and French goods and build up the industry of
his own country, he might perhaps save himself But
just so long lie allows the Trojan horse Of the Brit
sh manufacturers TO canter freely about hi, domniOns
Just so long will he be digging grave for his throne
and dynasty And while he is protected by French
and English fleets and armies, what hope i, there
of his escaping from the clutches of that sane British
free trade which reduces hn TO the necessity of beg
eng aid abroad None whatever.