Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-05-13
No. 9

economic cripple. Her body is greai
ami powerful; the physical constitu
ton Is strong. One arm, agriculture
Is overdeveloped, and its overdeyelop
ment has been at the sacrifice of tn,
other arm. Russia, economically. In
one physical respect, reminds me Of
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, late of Prus
sla. now living in Holland. l refer e
his withered, undeveloped baby arm
Russias undeveloped industrial arm ii
! Just such a crippled, useless arm. Ref
erence TO the ex-emperor, who is now
saving wood in Holland, suggests te
my mind the words of great German
economist, List:
"A nation cannot promote and fur
ther its civilization, its prosperity and
its social progress equally as well BY
exchanging agricultural products fW
manufactured goods as by establishing
a manufacturing power of its own. A
merely agricultural nation can neveI
develop to any extent home or q
foreign commerce. with inland means
of transport and foreign navigation
Increase its population in due proper
tion to their weIlbeing. or make no
table progress in its moral, intellec,
tual social and political development;
1t 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 agricultural-manufac
ically and politically dependent on
those foreign nations which take from
it agriculture in exchange for manu-
factured goods. 1t cannot determine
how much it will produce, it must wait
and see how much others Will buy from
It. The agricultural al-manufacturing
states on the contrary produce for
themselves large quantities of raw ma
terials and provisions and supply
merely the deficiency from importa-
ion. The purely agricultural nations
ire thus dependent for the power OF
,ffecting sales on the chances Of a
more or less bountiful harvest In the
ricultaral-manufacf nations
hey l1gF norea 81 COM. -s''Has' Z
heir sales WIN 6lis purely a iGs.s, :
uraI nations; whereby the power OF
ale in itself is uncertain: they are ex-
osed, to the danger of ruin in their
rading with agricultural-manu
ng nations by war or new tariffs,
hereby they suffer the double dlsad-
antage of finding no buyers for their
lrplus agricultural products and of
liling to obtain supplies of the man
factured goods they require. An ag-
cultural nation is a man with one
rm who makes use of an arm belong
e to another person but cannot, of
)urse, be sure of having it always
vailable. An agricultural-manufac-
ring nation is a man who has two
,od arms of his own at his disposal.
Poland Cited as an Example.
List further points out that the rel
i've cultivation of the agricultural
I'd manufacturing arms of a country
assessed Of an ample and fertile ter
tion twice to three times as large
it could secure by the development
the agricultural arm alone, and
lintain this vastly increased pepula-
IN in much higher degree of com
rt. Surplus agricultural produce Is
t necessarily capital in an agricultu-
country. Countries which produce
ch surplus and remain dependent
on manufacturing countries are
.en Obliged to purchase these manu-
'tured goods at an enhanced price.
! points to Poland as an example.
e exported the fruits OF her soil to
tain the goods which she could have
Inufaetured from it. As conse-
ence she fell like q house of cards
zen organized nations attacked her.
It considers that had Poland devel-
I'd her manufacturing arm, besides
aiming her national Independence
would have exceeded any other
ropean country in prosperity. To
! Lists words: eco to fallen Poland
| ask its laplesS people now whether
Is advisable for nation to buy the
rics Of a foreign country SO long
its native manufacturers are not
iclently strengthened to he able to
lpete in price and quality with the
aigners"
.olsheyism has set out to socialize
tical. agricultural and industrial
'sia, and ms / expect to examine the
cts of communism in each of these
artments of Russian life | have set
n some historical and economical
hs which must be kept In mind
m examining the Lenine panacea.
wright 1890 western Newspaper Unionl
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