Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-07-05

dertaken any internal improvements
which have not been projected and
planned by British engineers, execut-
ed by British skilled labor, directed
by British foremen and paid for by
British capital. The hand of Britain
is felt in everything in Turkey that
has a moneyed interest. Manufacture
in Turkey is to all intent and purpose
an unknown art. The demand, how
ever, for goods, so far as any actual
demand exists, is abundantly supplied
by English merchants. England, to-
day, has nearly complete monopoly
of the Turkish import trade and this
she expects to maintain so long as
the Empire lasts.
No doubt, greet part of this ad-
vantage was, in the first instance, OBJ
tanned by England's ready power oil
supply, and her eye,-watchtul efforts
in creating demand among all com
mercially-inclined people. She was
ever ready to take advantage of all
the varied circumstances. BY care
fully developed system OF Consular
agencies, England has been enabled
to bring her commercial traffic to the
attention of all peoples, because the
ConsuPs important duty has been tc
be helpful TO the merchant, and te
create demand for English merchan
disc. In this way the English Gov.
eminent has made itself, by its pecu
liar machinery, direct agent to adj.
vance the commercial interests o.
British subjects. In the East ans
throughout the Ottoman Empire, the
English Consul is an important per
sonage, held in high esteem, and hav
ing an eye single to British CONNER
cial interest. In Turkey, he is to be
found in every important town anc
his presence everywhere indicative o
power and English dignity. The
English Consular system is, therefore
an institution OF far-reaching influence
in establishing and maintaining com
mercial supremacy. Our own Gov
eminent might herein learn an i'm
| portant lesson.
Up to the year 1888 all foreigners
had been prohibited from engaging
in trade and traffic in the interior o
Turkey. But at that time England
secured, by special treaty, the RICH
of trade and traffic anywhere through
out the Empire for British subjects, or
the same footing as the natives. Tn
der this treaty, English subjects gained
rights that were denied to all othel
nationalities. In fact, it put th'
Englishman exactly on footing will
the Mussulman, to the exclusion of al
others. Still later, Englishmen il
large numbers settled on large landed
estates as farmers, growing grain anG
raising stock for the English market
1t is thus that England has become
identified with Turkish interests, ant
must of necessity look with no little
anxiety to the outcome of the presen
disturbances in that moribund En-
pire. The English Government ha
also guaranteed large part of Tur'
keys bonden debt, and has on THU
account not little interest as to whC
shall be the successor or successor
Of the present Turkish Government
England must, as a matter of course
feel an interest in the solution of Thu
great and important political problem
Besides all this, the highway to India
-England's Greater Britian-lie
through the heart Of Turkey. 1t j
impossible, then, that England should
be altogether Indifferent as to tn
final solution of what has been anC
still is the great irrepressible conflict
in international politics.