Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-05-06
economic cripple. Her body is great
and DOWerfuI. the nhySical conStitlI-

ana powerful; the physical cOnSutu-
ton is strong. One arm, agriculture
is Overdeveloped, and it's 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-
STA. now living in Holland. l refer to
his wthered, undeveloped baby arm.
Russias undev lOped 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, it's prosperity and
its social progress equally as we'll by
exchanging agricultural products for
manufactured goods as by establishing
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 it's population in due proper
ton to their Wellbeing, or make no
table progress in it's moral, intellec-
tual, social and political development !;
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 it's own. A mere agricultu-
raj state is infinitely less powerful
than an agricultural-manufac curing
state. The former is always econom-
ically and politically dependent on
those foreign nations which take from
it agriculture in exchange for manu-
featured goods. 1t cannot determine
how much it will produce, it must wait
and see how much others will buy from
it. The agricultural-manufa
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 n a t on S.
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
failing to obtain supplies of the man
ufactured goods they require. An ag-
arm who makes use of an arm belong
ing to another person but cannot, Of
course, be sure of having it 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
ative 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 it could secure by the development
of the agricultural arm alone, and
maintain this vastly increased popula
ton in much higher degree of COM
fort. Surplus agricultural produce Is
not necessarily capital in an agricultu
raj country. Countries which produce
such a surplus and remain dependent
upon manufacturing countries are
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 to
obtain the goods which she could have
manufactured from it. AS a 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: eco to fallen Poland
and ask its hapless people now whether
it is advisable for a nation to buy the
fabrics of a 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 socialize
political, agricultural and industrial
Russia, and as I expect to examine the
effects of communism in each Of these
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)
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