GERMAN INFLUENCE IN TUBKEY.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3794, 4 January 1899, Page 4

GERMAN INFLUENCE IN TUBKEY.

GeBMAWY SUCCEEDING WHEBE ENG

X.AND HAS FAILED

Discussing the German Emperor's trip to the East the London ' Times ' makes the following pregnaDt remarks : — ' One may be permitted to regret that British statesmanship missed the opportunities that Germany has seized. One regrets it the more because our statemanship is everywhere a generation behind that of Germany ix\ the use of the methods appropriate to an industrial age. Our Foreign Offioe does not understand the fostering of material interests, but is always knocking its sublime head against the stars of high policy. Englishmen have always understood the methods by which the Germans are now prospering, but they have to fight their individual battles, while German industry is orgauised and led by the State, which is a formidable rival to the finest individual enterprise. It must be regretted that this country has missed its chance in Turkey, but apart from that regret we have no reason whatever to be jealous of Germany. She is doing a work which, ought to be done in the interests of the world. Her merchants are doing more than all the diplomacy of half a century to promote good government in Turkey and to introduce Western ideas. Her material interests thus fostered through years of ostensible indifference to Turkish politics have now given her a position of political influence which it is good for us that she should occupy, since we failed to occupy it ourselves.'

An up to date farmer says a correct theory of farming, requires that the fertility of the land be maintained. This is the farmer's capital, not the land itseK, but the valuable fertility of the land. The exhaustion of this is" the exhaustion of the farmer's capital stock. In selling grain we simply sell our land by piecemeal, not the profits, but the land itself. The correct theory, therefore, of farming involves not merely graiu pro luctioD, but meat production, nud ok at production primarily becaus< .n producing it we are selling our lo the best market, and can thereby keep up the fertility of the farm.

Solitary confinement ia certaii. eases is advocated by Captaii. Barrowes, who speaks from a long experience as governor of thifelbourae gaol. He told the Habitual Drunken, ess Board siting Mt Melbourne, that if this form of punishment were abolished ihe whole of the prison system would become of no avail. StiL he thought 30 days' solitary wa* too long.

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