The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-06-10

economic cripple. Her ucdy IL grea;
and powerful; the physical constitu
ton Is strong. One arm. agriculture.
Is overdevelopcd. 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 e.
his withered, undeveloped baby arm.
Russia's undeveloped industrial arm il
just such crippled. useless arm. Ref
erence To the ex-emperOr who is now
saving wood I'm Holland. suggests &c
my mind the words of a 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 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 its population in due proper
| ton TO their wellbeing. or make no.
table progress In its moral. intellec-
tual, social and political development
ii 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 its own. A mere agricultu-
raj state is infinitely less powerful
than an agricultural-manufac
state. The former is always ecopom-
ically and politically dependent on
those foreign nations which take from
Ii agriculture in exchange for manu-
featured goods. II cannot determine
how much il will produce, II must wait
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
more or less bOuntiful harvest in the
Observation-Disclosures nat IONS.
They have, moreover. 10 compete In
their sales with other purely agricul-
tural nations. whereby the power OF
sale in itself is uncertain; they are ex-
posed 10 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 10 obtain supplies of the man
ufactured 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. he sure of having 1t always
available. An observation-disclosures
turing nation is a man who has tive
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 II could secure by the development
Of the agricultural arm alone. and
maintain this vastly increased pOpua-
tion 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
from II. As conse-
quence she fell like 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: $50 TO fallen Poland
and ask its hapless people now whether
n is advisable for a nation 10 buy the
fabrics Of a foreign country so long
as it's native manufacturers are not
sufficiently strengthened To he able to
compete in price and quality with the
foreigners"
Rolshevism 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 / have set
down some historical and economical
tr.ths which must be kept In mind
when examining the Lenine panacea.
copyright, 1920. Western Newspaper Union)
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