New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-13

export one and light import one to beconin,
heavy import one aud light export one--.hsr,
must have been great Increase 10 the dome.a.
consumption Of food and raw materials, with
corresponding 1iminu,ion in the necessity 70,
dependence on the distant market. As regard,
Russio, we would beg to suggest to him a refer.
tnee to the latest nuiober cf tue Journal d.s
Economistes, a radical British Free-trAde pub
LEGATION, in which be will fad II gwen as.
fact that is undeniable that the export.
Of food from Russia have gone on dimin
ishing from year to year since lsH. How, ia.
deed. could it be Otherwise The manufactures
Of Russia are growing rapidly, AMI manufactures
reopi-e men. women and children who must
eat food. aud il they eat iS i cannot remain 10
swell the exports. Were We now to close the
furnaces and factories Of this country aai turn
the whole of our population to agriculture.
should we not have more food to export AMI
should We not obtain lover pieces Tor itt We
beg our contemporary to lay sside bis statistics
and reflect calmly upon the question, alter "hieA
we shall hope TO have from him reply OF very
different character-a frank aud honest one.
Before he again tells US that he knows Of
"no such tendency to high prices IN the Eaglisa
"market." We beg that he will stufy the facts
of the past tso years, and explain why IL shosh
he that extra consumption by soldiers produces
q rise of price in Germany and England that
...-..,i -1-is. P.-'''uVvd o. sstuiHss cum
sumption by German apd Russian mechanics.
We sre told that free schools aud free religion
would effect the changes desired; but does NOS
our contemporary know that association and CON-
bnation Of action are as,r.oed TO the establish
ment Of such schools, ard TO that improvement
of the modes of thought which leads to freedom
Of relieiOnl Does he not know that the tea
dency of British Free trade is toward compsll-
ing all India to become cottou-growing country,
all Germany to be wsol-growing one, aud an
Russia aud all Northern America to be food
growing ones-aHd that when there is no diver
sity of employment there can be no association.
no Development of miud, no schools, no free
DOM Does he not know that the tendency to-
ward the establishment Of schools is in those
countries that resist the British system and
not in those that submit to tin France, Bel
GUM, Denmark, Germany and taese Northers
States-and not in Portugal, Turkey, India. or
our Southern States We entreat him to
study the facts and enable himself TO answer
these questions.
"Nould not the creation Of domestic market in
Turkey tend greatly to produce the same en5ct and
on an enormous scale; and not farmers there
fore directly interested in the incorporation Of that
country into Russia "
To this question we are at length favored
with an answer-and in the negative, as the
reader here sees:
No: for the plain reason that grain is not staple
production OF Turkey aud OF course the decrease Of
what is already uumportan could not produce any Of.
fecis on an enormous SCALE The remedial measures
for Turkey area better religion, education, the ab0-
htoD Of the export duty, reform IN its internal admin
ist aOn and the extinction of those runOus Govern
ment mOnopolies which grind the faces Of all its
producers. Our farmers therefore, not directly or
indirectly interested in the incorporation Of Turkey
into Russia
We are glad to meet at length with plain
swer even though it be denial of a fact that
cannot seriously be questioned Equally with
our contemporary were we aware that British
Free trade has destroyed not only the manufac-
lures but the agriculture of Turkey, and that
her people starved while surrounded by the
richest lands of Europe uncultiyated but equally
with him were we aware that all the food of the
Dsnubian Provinces passes by Constantinopls
on its way TO Engl,nd and conld there DO in
tercepted were market create for it nearer
home. This very fact we have stated, and it
could scarcely hase escaped the notice of TAe
Era, which nevertheless ignores it aud tnus OBJ
Jams the foundation on which to rest its first
distinct reply to the questions we have sub
mitted. good cause would release him from
all necessity for closing bis eyes to this reason
ing Of his opponents. As regards all the other
charges he has to suggest, we beg to inquire Of
him if there is any country Of the world now
in wealth or freedom that is subjected
to the tyranny Of British Free trader In CON-
mon with English writers he tells US Of the OPP
preston of Turkish export duties, when he can
scarcely fail to know that they are resorted to
solely because Britain and France permit no
duties on imports, and thus deprive the Govern
ment Of the means Of raising a revenue except
by that direct taxation of which tho export
duties form part. They are tax on land and
nothing more; sud yet none are more vocferous
in their denunciation of the Turkish system
than those who seek its introduction amo,g our
selves
We are, as our readers see, answered in the
negatives but will our contemporary venture TO
repeat the assertion that If maaufictures were
to grow up ia Turkey-Ja great market were
there made for labor aud for fOOd-if che corn
that now passes from the Black Sea to England
we're arrested in Constantinople and distributed
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