The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-05-01

and powerful; the physical conStitu |
ton is strong. One arm, agriculture.
Is oyerdeveloped, and its overdevelop I
ment has been at the sacrifice Of the |
other arm. Russia, economically, in !
one physical respect. reminds me OF
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, late of Prus- I
sia. now living in Holland. | refer to
his withered, undeveloped baby arm,
Russia'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 its 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
| tion TO their wellbeing or make no
| table progress in its moral intellec
| tual, social and political development
it will never acquire important politi-
cal power or be placed in a 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 gricultural-manufactu
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. 1t cannot determine
how much 1t will produce, it must wait
and see how much 'thers viii 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-
rfon. The purely agricultural nations
are thus dependent for the power of
effecting sales on the chances OF a
more or less bountiful harvest in the
ural-manufacturing n :.
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-manufact
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 ag-
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 it always
available. An northumberland
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
alive cultivation of the agricultural
and manufacturing arms of a. country
possessed of an ample and fertile ter
ritory viii give that country 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
tion in much higher degree of com
fort. Surplus agricultural produce |:
not necessarily capital in an agricultu
raj country. Countries which produce
such q surplus and remain dependen
upon manufacturing countries ar
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 t,
obtain the goods which she could hav,
manufactured from ii. As a conse
i quence she fell like house of card
z when organized nations attacked her
List considers that had Poland devel
i oped her manufacturing arm, beside
J. retaining her national independents
she would have exceeded any othe
European country in prosperity. It
/ use Lists words: Go to fallen Polan
: and ask It's hapless people now whethe
It is advisable for nation to buy tn
; fabrics of foreign country SO Ion
/ AS its native manufacturers are no
5 sufficiently strengthened to be able {
/ compete in price and quality with tn
: foreigners"
II Bolshevism has set out TO Socializ
i political. agricultural and induSuiG
Russia. and as | expect to examine tn
% effects of communism In each of theS
u departments of Russian life | have sc
: down some historical and economics
truths which must be kept in min
e when examining the Lenine panace;
IS Copyright 1920. Western Newspaper Union
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