The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-08

gage in war, must demand large sup
plies from some source to sustain them
during their strife. But It does not fol-
low that any large proportion Of those
supplies will be drawn from US.
1t must be remembered that both Rus
sia and Turkey are very productive
countries, as we'll as vast In extent.
There is no probability that Turkey can
be ravaged by the invading army to any
great extent, so as to materially inter-
rupt her production Of such supplies as
her armies require. And Of what they
mostly require, We have not much to Of.
fer. AS Mahommedans, our pork they
will not use. or their staple for bread,
rice, we raise none to spare. As
long as they have the granaries OF Egypt,
of Syria and Armenia al their COM
mand, the Turks will require little OF
our grain. Besides their African and
Asiatic resources in this regard, they
have likewise access to and control over
some of the finest grain growing regions
OF the world in the great plains south
of the Danube, including the fertile
plain of Of Hungary.
Russia is likewise quite as wen, prob-
ably better, situated i'll this regard than
Turkey. She is absolutely exempt from
invasion. She presents an impregnabie
front to all military attack. So long as
Germany remains her friend, her from
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cultural industries will proceed without
disturbance from the war, and even
Quickened by its demands. The sum-
mons Of her armies Of a million of men,
out of a population of eighty five millions
can not weaken her home industrial
force so as to cause diminution of her
agricultural yield. The capacity OF her
territory for the production of wheat and
forage crops is almost incaicuIable. The
wheat fields Of Central and Southern
Russia in Europe are unriyaled. Poland
is one vast wheat field. Cattle and
sheep are innumerable over all the i'm
mense plains stretching from the Pruth
to the Volga. In times of peace, from
her great grain mart Of Odessa, Russia
supplies all Western Europe with wheat
for their bread. Her surplus is immense.
The supplies from that region are the
chief rivals of our grain crops in this
country in the European markets. Her
, barley crops are equally luxuriant.
In feeding her armies there will be no
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were their troops at home; though waste
and loss would be considerable, OF course.
And as her agricultural population will
still remain abundant for all demands
Of tillage, and as her fields can not be
ravaged and laid waste by any invading
army, there is nothing, but the natural
J and common contingency of the seasons,
to prevent Russia from producing as
much or more ofaher food products as al
any other time; and this has always
been more than sufficient to supply her
own people. twill be remembered that
: during her struggle in the Crimean war,
when England had b1ockaded all Rus.
sian ports, English people were still fed
on Russian bread, brought out overland
through Germany; and England had
herself to pay for the additional cost oil
transportation in the high price she
paid for Russian wheat.
i Now, in view of all these circum
stances, we would quietly suggest that
too high fever Of speculation in bread.
stuffs, here at home, may be followed by
chills that will be found more cooling
than agreeable. In all this we have
vaken no account OF the surplus that
Western Europe may have to afford,
and which can reach the vacuum,
should any occur, much sooner than
ours can. During our war, though more
than million of men were placed in
the field, we had no occasion to buy our
food and forage supplies from abroad
Russia, with twice the population and
three times the area, can scarcely be
expected to be worse off in that regard
than we were. We would, therefore
though granting that the Eastern war is
: to be a great one, advise prudent eau
tion in the trade movements here based
on the commercial influences that that
war is likely to exert. AS to arms and
munitions Of war, great demands may
arise. But as these will become contra
band Of war, speculators in them must
count their great risks against their
great gains.
1t is very common blunder to call the
President OF the French Republic Mar.
shall de MacMahon. The prefix "de''
implies feudal tenure, from which the
family name. coming after it, was AIKEN
1t was brought into France by the
Franks, and it is the translation Of the
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