The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-05-20

and powerful; the physical consltu-
ton is strong. One arm, agriculture
is overdeveloped, and Its overdeyelop-
ment has been at the sacrifice OF the
other arm. Russia. economically, in
| one physical respect, reminds me OF
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, late Of Prus
! STA. now living In Holland. | refer to
his withered, undeveloped baby arm.
Russla's undeveloped industrial arm is
just such 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
Their its civilization, Its prosperity and
It's social progress equally as well by
| exchanging agricultural products for
manufactured goods as by establishing
a manufacturing power of It's own. A
merely agricultural nation can never
develop to any extent 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 its moral intellec-
tual. social and political development /,
it will never acquire important polti-
cal power or be placed IN position TO
influence the cultivation and progress
of less advanced nations and 20 form
colonies of its own. A mere agriculul-
! raj state is infinitely less powerful
| than an manufacturing
state. The former is always ecOnom.
ically and politically dependent on
! those foreign nations which take from
| 1t agriculture In exchange for manu-
featured goods, II cannot determine
how much il will produce, II must wait
! and see how much others will buy from
| H. 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-
| tlon. The purely agricultural nations
are thus dependent for the power OF
! effeCting sales on the chances OF =
more or less hOuntiful harvest In the
misunderstanding ma ION s.
| They have, moreover, to compete In
their sales with other purely agricul-
ural nations. whereby the power OF
! sale In itself is uncertain; they are ex-
posed to the danger of ruin In their
| trading with observation-disclosures
! ing nations by war or new tarlhS
whereby they suffer the double dSad
vantage of finding no buyers for their
surplus agricultural products and OF
failing to obtain supplies of the man
ufactured goods they require. An ng
! 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 II always
available. An agricultural.manufac'
turing nation is man who has two
good arms Of his own at his disposal
Poland Cited as an Example.
List further points out that the rel
alive cultivation of the agricultural
and manufacturing arms of country
possessed of an ample and fertile ter
ritory will give that country popu
ation twice TO three times as large
MS It could secure by the development
of the agricultural arm alone, ant
maintain this vastly increased popua
tion In a much higher degree OF com
fort Surplus agricultural produce Il
not necessarily capital in an agricultu
raj country. Countries which produce
such a surplus and remain dependent
upon manufacturing countries ar,
often Obliged to purchase these manu-
fnctured goods Mt an enhanced price
He points 10 Poland as an example
She exported the fruits of her soil e
obtain the goods which she could hav,
manufactured from It, As COnSe
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. T.
use Lists words: eco to fallen Polanl
and ask Its hapless people now whethe
It Is advisable for nation TO buy th'
fabrics OF q foreign country so Ions
rs It's native manufacturers are no
sufficiently strengthened to be able t.
compete In price and quality with tn
foreigners"
Bolshevism has set out to socialIz'
political agricultural and industrial
Russia. and as expect to examine tn
effects of communism In each Of thes'
departments Of Russian life | have Sc
down some historical and economical
truths which must be kept In mine
when examining the Lenine pnnacen
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