The Wrangell sentinel., 1920-08-05

economic cripple, Her body Is great and powerful; the physical constitu- ton Is strong. One arm, agriculture, is overdeveloped, and its overdevelop- | ment has been at the sacrifice of the other arm. Russia, economically, in one physical respect, reminds me of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, late of Prus- sia. now living in Holland. I refer to his withered, undeveloped baby arm. Russia's undeveloped industrial arm Is just such a crippled, useless arm. Ref erence to the ex-emperor, who Is now saving wood in Holland, suggests to my mind the words of a 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 for manufactured goods as by establishing Q 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 propor- ton to their wellbeing, or make no- table progress in its moral, intellec- tual, social and political development; i; 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- ral state is infinitely less powerful than an agricultural-manufa state. The former is always econom- ically and politically dependent on those foreign nations which take from 1t agriculture in exchange for manu- factured goods. It cannot determine how much it will produce, it must wait and see how much others will buy from it. The agricultural-manufacturing states on the contrary produce for themselves large quantities of raw ma terials and provisions and supply merely the deficiency from importa- tion. The purely agricultural nations are thus dependent for the power of effecting sales on the chances of more or less bountiful harvest in the agricultural-manufa n t 0 n s. They have, moreover, to compete In their sales with other purely agricul- tural nations, whereby the power of sale in itself is uncertain; they are ex- posed to the danger of ruin In their trading with agricultural-manuf ing nations by war or new tariffs, whereby they suffer the double disad- vantage of finding no buyers for their surplus agricultural products and of failing to obtain supplies of the man. ufactured goods they require. An az ricultural nation Is man with one arm who makes use of an arm belong ing to another person but cannot, of course, be sure of having 1t always available. An agricultural-manufac- turing nation is a man who has two good arms of his own at his disposal.
 Poland Cited as an Example.
 List further points out that the rel atiye cultivation of the agricultural and manufacturing arms of country possessed of an ample and fertile ter ritory will give that country a pOpu- lation twice to three times as large as 1t could secure by the development of the agricultural arm alone. and maintain this vastly increased popula- ton in a much higher degree of com fort. Surplus agricultural produce is not necessarily capital in an agricultu- ral country. Countries which produce such surplus and remain dependent upon manufacturing countries are often obliged to purchase these manu- factured goods at an enhanced price. She exported the fruits of her soil to obtain the goods which she could have manufactured from 1t. As a conse- quence she fell like house of cards when organized nations attacked her. List considers that had Poland devel- oped her manufacturing arm, besides retaining her national independence she would have exceeded any other European country in prosperity. To use Lists words: "Go to fallen Poland and ask Its hapless people now whether 1t is advisable for a nation to buy the fabrics of a foreign country so long as Its native manufacturers are not sufficiently strengthened to be able to compete in price and quality with the foreigners"
 Bolshevism has set out to socialize political, agricultural and industrial Russia, and as I expect to examine the effects of communism in each of these departments of Russian life have set down some historical and economical truths which must be kept in mind when examining the Lenine panacea. (Copyright 1920 Western Newspaper Union)
 France Needs Raw Materials.