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q powerful; the physical constitu-
tion is strong. One arm, agriculture,
is ov~erdeveloped, 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-
STA. now living in Holland. / 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 It's civilization. Its prosperity and
Its social progress equally as well ny
exchanging agricultural products for
manufactured goods as by establishing
a manufacturing power of Its own. A
develop to any extent a home or a
foreign commerce., with inland means
of transport and foreign navigation,
increase It's population In due proper
ton to their w~elibeiIg, or make no
table progress I'm its moral, intellec-
tual, social and political development;
Il viii. never acquire important rc.s
cal power or be placed In a 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 Observation-Disclosures
state. The former is always econom-
icaIly and politically dependent on
those foreign nations which take from
1t agriculture In exchange for manu-
featured goods. 1t cannot determine
how much II VIII produce, IL must walt
and see how much others will buy from
II. 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 5.
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 dlsad-
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 a man with
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 az 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 will give that country a popu-
! iation twice 20 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
moi necessarily capital in an a%gricultu-
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 1t. 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: "Go to fallen Poland
| and ask It's hapless people now whether
II Is advisable for a nation 10 buy the
| fabrics Of a foreign country so long
| as its native manufacturers are not
sufficiently strengthened to be able tc
compete In price and quality with the
| foreigners"
B~olshevism has set out to socialize
| political. agricultural and industrial
Russia. aud az I expect to examine the
effects OF communism in each OF these
| departments Of Russian life I have set
| down some historical and economical
truths which must be kept In mind
when examining the Lenine panacea
tcopyrixht. 1890. western Newspaper Union)