The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-05-27

economic cripple. Her body Is great
and powerful; the physical constitu-
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. refer to
his withered undeveloped baby arm.
Russia's undeveloped industrial arm is
just such q 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
Their its civilization, its prosperity and
its social progress equally as we'll 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 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 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-
featured goods. It cannot determine
| how much it will produce, it must walt
and see how much others will buy from
it. The agricultural-lnanufa
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
more or less bountiful harvest In the
gricultural-manufactu n a tt Ons.
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
failing to obtain supplies Of the man.
ufactured goods they require. An ag-
ricultural nation is a 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 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
alive cultivation of the agricultural
and manufacturing arms Of country
possessed of an ample and fertile ter
ritory will give that country 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 a much higher degree Of COM
fort. Surplus agricultural produce Is
not necessarily capital in an agricultu-
raj country. Countries which produce
such 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-
uuence 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
it Is advisable for 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 expect to examine the
effects of communism in each Of these
departments Of Russian life 1 have SET
down some historical and economical
truths which must be kept In mind
when examining the Lenine panacea.
| fcopyrisht, 1920. Western Newspaper Union)
France Needs Raw Materials.
Economic disturbances In France
during the period Of readjustment OF
wages to high prices were predicted Dy
Icon Jouhaux, chief labor representa-