The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-03-11

Great has been unceasing in its efforts
for the creation and development of
home manufactures. All of the evil
dence I have examined refutes this
statement. There never has been any
security to the worker in Russia. The
only protection he has had has been
his interest in the family allotment.
He could go back there and be hun
cry; in the city starvation was the
danger.
The czars put every obstacle in the
way of education and Of course this
prevented the growth of industry.
In 1902 the principal Industries in
Russia, representing all of the facto-
ries throughout the empire. of which
the annual production was valued at
more than $1,000, were textiles, food
products, animal products, wood, pa
per- chemical products ceramics, min
ing, metal goods, miscellaneous, and
all Of these employed only 2.259,773
workers.
Led Up to BoIshevik Problem.
This dwarfed, stunted, paralyzed
side of Russia-its industrial side
has direct bearing upon conditions in
Russia today and is an important part
of the problem Of the bolshevik gov
ernment.
A nation to be economically normal
must have balanced agricultural. man.
ufacturing and commercial sides. II
these three departments of activity
are not proportionately developed the
nation is economically cripple. Rus
sIa has been and Is in this sense an
economic cripple. Her body is great
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. l 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 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 us by establishing
a manufacturing power of Its own. A
merely agricultural nation can never
develop to any extent home or
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;
1t will never acquire important pollti-
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 agricultural-manufac
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 1t will produce. 1t must walt
and see how much others will buy from
II. The agricultural-manu
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
Observation-Disclosures natl n s.
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 agricultura;-nanufact
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.
lfactured 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 1t always
available. An ngricultural-mnnufac-
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 manufa cturing arms of country
possessed of an ample and fertile ter
ritOry Will give that country popu-
alton twice to three times MS large
IL II could sec',~r by the ueve'nr rnant