The Raymer enterprise., 1920-05-27
all Of these employed only 2259, rs
workers
Led Up TO eoIshevIk Problem.


This dwarfed. stunted. paralyzed
side Of Russia-lts industrial side
has direct bearing upon conditions in
Russia today and Is an important part
Of the problem Of the bolshevIk gov
ernmept.
A nation to be economically normal
must have balanced agricultural. man
ufacturing and commercial sides n
these three departments of activity
are not proportionately developed the
nation Is economically a cripple. Rus
sia has been and ls in this sense an
economic cripple. Her body is sreal
and powerful; the physical constitu-
tion 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. refer to
his wIthered. undeveloped baby arm.
Russia's undeveloped industrial arm II
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
ther Its civilization, Its prosperity and
Its social progress equally as well by
exchanging agricultural products for
manufactured goods as by establishing
manufacturing power Of Its own. A
merely agricultural nation can never
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 wellbelng or make no.
table progress In its moral, Intellec.
tual, social and political development I;
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-
factured goods. 1t cannot determine
how much II will produce, 1t must walt
and see how much others will buy from
1t. 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 a
more or less bountiful harvest In the
agricultural-manufacturing nations.
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 observation-disclosures
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
falling 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 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
ative cultivation OF the agricultural
and manufacturing arms Of country
possessed Of an ample and fertile ter
dtory will give that country popu-
Iation twice to three times as large
as II 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 Is
not necessarily capital In an agricultn-
raj 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.
He points to Poland as an example.
She exported the fruits Of her soil to
obtain the goods which she could have
manufactured from II. As q conse-
quence she fell like a 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 foreign country SO long
as It's native manufacturers are not
sufficiently strengthened to be able to
compete In price and quality with the
foreigners"
Bolshevism has set out to s0cialize
political agricultural and industrial
Russia, and as 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
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