Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1920-05-27

economic. cripple. Her body is great
and powerful; the physical constitu-
ton. Is strong. One arm, agriculture,
BIS stasfe atpe&sdsot. its overdevelOpa'
IN sSBasa. -ssAse: s,saseilss Of the
Other ARMS. lR!nSsia. geographically, in
one physical respect, fGnffhts me of
Wilhelm HohenzoHern,= -fate of Prus-
siG:.hSw 1ivihgfn Halafd. al .sefer, to
his Httffered uhdeSelopgfi baby arm.
Rpssias .gpdsy6l9psd INDUSTRIAL ARA /.
just such crippl.eq, useless arm. .> Ref-
ers4l!G;e: TO-; the ,.eK- emRegQr, who Is now
saving wood in. doflaid, Suggests TO
my Mid. fbe' &5fds 81 a great German
ecchoThfst,ss List: -" ss",il." "
~ .natfon' ;d&nhot 'pf66mSte and fur
ther' Its civilikatton,afts prosperity and
its"social progress. equally as well by
exchanging agricultural products for
manufactured goods as by establishing
a manufacturing power Of its own. A
merely agricultural nation can never
develop to any extent a home or a
foreign commerce, with inland means
Of transport and foreign navigation,
increase its population In due proper
ton to their wellbeing, or make no.
table progress in it's moral, intellec-
tual, social and political development;
it will never acquire important politi-
cal power or be placed in position to
influence the cultivation and progress
of less advanced nations and to form
colonies of its own. A mere agricultu
raj state is infinitely less powerful
than an Observation-Disclosures
| state. The former is always ecOnom-
ically and politically dependent on
those foreign nations which take from
it agriculture in exchange for manu-
featured goods. 1t cannot determine
how much it will produce, it must wait
and see how much others will buy from
it. The Observation-Disclosures
states on the contrary produce for
themselves large quantities of raw ma
terials and provisions and supply
| merely the deficiency from importa-
ton. The purely agricultural nations
| are thus dependent for the power of
| effeCting sales on the chances of
more VI less pouhtllu' harvest III 'iie
"Sl 'Nul "'-''i''ll " "'Iuilh6 .
lheE nave moreover To compete III
til'll S"IeS WIN "'ler Pu'eE "sl 'ou'.
| tural nations, whereby the power of
| sale in itself is uncertain; they are eX-
p"Ne" u tile oahsel Vi rum III tiieli
ti"''"s VIII 's'loui'"i az. ~l
NIX ""''oli0 NY val VI ''V" Va, ms
""'r'oE 'I'ey sulie' 'iie u"uple ul""u-
>"l''Et VI iiiiu'HS II" ouHe i' III ''iVi
surplus "SI'cu!'u'"' P.ou"CtS anu VI
| i"''''lS ~ ""'al" N"Pp''eH Vi 'iie ii'"Ai-
| u'arlureu So"'iS 'ileS require All az
f''"''utal ll"'lo'' - "l'h VII" o'ie
| arm VINO H'lNeS use Oh an arlh pe'ohS.
| INK 10 uhol'er person. puI 'a'l''ot' o'
! '"uIH'' ne SURF VI H"NllS II "l""'
"N"i'"pie' AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS "c-
turing h"ll"H IL MA" WI" mas wv"
S""" arms vi HIS ""'' DIT HIS '"'Po"''''
Poland Clted as an Example.
LAST further points our that the rel
| " -
ana manufacturing arms or country
possessed or an ample ana teftlle ter
fltorY VIII give mat country popu-
| latloh tWlce 10 three tllheS as large
as II cohId secure by the deNeloplneht
OF the agricuItural arm alone ana
maintain this vastly increased popuIa-
tloh IN huch hIgher degree OF COM
tort. Surplus agricultural produce IS
not necessarily capital IN an agricuItu-
raj country. countries when produce
such surplus ana remain dependent
upon manufacturing countries are
often obliged to purchase these manu-
featured goods at an enhanced price.
He points to Poland as an example
| She exported the fruits Of her soil TO
monufocturad from If AS q conse-