The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1920-05-20

economic cripple. Her body y great
and powerful: the physical eonstita-
tien u strong. One arm. agriculture.
10 overdsvelopsd, and it, overdevslop-
ment has been at the sacrifice Of the
other arm. Russia, economically. In
one physical respect, reminds me Of
Wilhelm Hohensollern. late Of Prus-
sia. now living in Holland. refer to
his withered, undeveloped baby arm.
Russia's undevelopsd industrial arm IL
Just such crippled. useless arm. Ref
erencs to the ex-emperor. who 10 now
saving wood In Holland, suggests to
my mind the words Of 4 great German
economist. List:
"A nation cannot promote and fur
ther Its civilization, it, prosperity and
it, social progress equally ~ well by
exchanging agricultural products for
manufactured goods a. by establishing
. manufacturing power Of its own. A
merely agricultural nation can never
develop to any extent q home or .
foreign commerce. with inland means
Of transport and foreign navigation,
increase its population In due proper
ton to their wellbeing. or make no
table progress in it, moral. intsllec-
tual. social and political development:
It will never acquire important politi-
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 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 1t will produce. It must wait
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
more or less bountiful harvest In the
Observation-Disclosures nat 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 agricultural-manufac
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
failing to obtain supplies Of the man.
ufactured goods they require. An ag-
ricultural nation IL a man with one
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 IL man who has two
good arms Of his own at his disposal.
Poland Cited ~ 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 popu-
lation twice to three times as large
as 1t 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 Ii
not necessarily capital In an agricultu-
raj country. Countries which produce
such 4 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 q conse-
Quence she fell like q house Of cards
when organized nations attacked her.
List considers that had Poland devel.
opetl 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 In advisable for q nation to buy the
fabrics Of q foreign country no long
as its native manufacturers are not
sufficiently strengthened to be able to
compete In price and quality with the
foreigners"
Bolshevism has set out to socialixe
political. agricultural and industrial
Russia. and a. expect to examine the
effects Of communism In each IT these
departments Of Russian life have set
down some historical and economical
truths which must be kept In mind
when examining the Tenine panacea.
Copyright. 1870. Western Newspaper Unies1
France Nssds Raw Materials.
Economic disturbances In France
during the period Of readjustment OF
wages to high prices were predicted BY
Leon Jouhaux. chief labor representa-
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