The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-01-28
HOLLAND HAS
IDAHO MONEY
Lends Us Large Sums An
nually

Holland, with an area of 12,64S
of almost seven million people, lends
money to Idaho farmers of a state
with $4,000 square miles and with
less than four hundred thousand peo-
pie
1T is not what we make, but what
we save that makes us wealthy"
states Everijn Lange, a prominent
financial man and banker of Amster-
dam, Holland, who spent Sunday in
Idaho Falls, with Mrs. Lange, looking
over the country and the business sit
uation.
Mr.. Lange has financial interest in
this section of Idaho in that the bank
and company that he is with has hun
dreds OF thousands of dollars invested
in this section in farm loans thru
their local representatives.
Mr.. Lange, who has travelled extern
sively thruout the world and being
naturally keen observer, talks inter
estingly of his country and other coun-
tries, and is as familiar with South
Africa, Australia, the East and West
Indies, Asia, Japan and the Philip
pines, as is the average citizen of
this section of Idaho or Salt Lake.
1t is of his own country, though,
that he talks in the most interesting
way, and when he was asked how it
was that country like Holland,
small country, hardly larger than
some of the counties of Idaho, and
with more people than half dozen
of the northwestern states, made so
much money that they had it by mil
lions to loan to western farmers OF
America said: 'It is not what we
make but what we save that counts;
nothing is permitted to go to waste;
every inch of ground is cultivated to
its utmost and made to produce a
great deal. Our cattle and all live
stock are the best, for we can not
afford to feed poor bred stock. One
of our Dutch farmers will save more
money from what he makes on a
ten-acre tract than one of your Idaho
or other western farmers will from
160 acres, and live as well, and j
stead of having interest to pay out
at the end of the year will have
money to loan. 1t is the money OF the
farmers of Holland that our com
pany lends to American farmers"
In discussing the war situation Mr.
Lange shows that he is very pro-Ger-
man, he is very diplomatic in his
remarks. He talks of the wonderful
preparedness of Germany and the
great strides that country has made
commercially and financially within
the past thirty years.
Thirty years ago. he states, Ger
many was made up of a number Of lit
tie principalities, all more or less
Independent, and each j saicus of the
other 1t was then that the great ques-
ton of bringing all of the people of
that nation under one governmental
head was taken up. The result is
that today Germany is strong and is
like an infant grown up and, like the
strong man, is reaching out for things.
While old Germany is really the youn
ooct nation of E,,ropo ond ic raachiup
out for things, is growing and expand
ing with vigor and the great war is
the natural cause of that condition.
England, Russia and France, all old
nations and well established, are like
the man who has made his fortune
and wants to retire to quiet life.
full flush of youth and wants to ex-
pand. The war is the result"
Mr. Lange did not venture a pre-
diction as to the result of the war
nor would he.
His country, Holland, had occasion
recently to raise one hundred million
dollars as war measure. There was
NJ trouble bout it. Tic farmers of
cLat little country invested thsi' say
ings ir the bonds of their co Intry |
Tho farmer of the r,w world and |
the rev part of the ew word, the |
northwestern part of the United |
States, might well profit by the meth
DDS used by the successful farmer
from whom they borrow money and
pay big interest. True, the Holl-
and farmer has the advantage of big
markets and cheap transportation
and cheap labor, but it is what he
saves that makes him wealthy, not
what he makes.-Idaho Register !