Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1920-06-19

economic cripple. Her body q great
and powerful; the physical constltu-
tion IS strong. One arm, agriculture,
Is overdevelOped, and its OverdeyelOD-
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. 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
Their its civilization, its prosperity and
Its social progress equally as well by
exchanging agricultural products for
manufactured goods as by establishing
manufacturing power of its own. A
merely agricultural nation can never
develop to any extent a 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;
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 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. 1t cannot determine
how much it will produce, it must wait
and see how much others will buy from
it. 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
agricultural-manuf9ct lions.
They have, moreover, to compete In
their sales with other purely agTicul-
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 tHr-
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 it 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 a country
possessed Of an ample and fertile ter
ritOry will give that country a popu-
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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 is
not necessarily capital in an agrlcultu-
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 tC
obtain the goods which she could have
manufactured from 1t. AS a 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 othel
European country In prosperity. Il
use Lists words go to fallen POLAND
and ask its hapless people now whethe
it is advisable for a nation to buy tn
fabrics of a foreign country so lonl
as us nduVe NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. arc HO
sufficiently strengthened to be able t
: compete in price and quality with tn
) foreigners"
Bolshevism has set out to socializ
political, agricultural and industria
-, Russia, and as expect to examine tn
} effects Of communism in each of thes
J departments of Russian life have sc
down some historical and economies
. truths which must be kept in min
e when examining the Lenine panaee'
s Copyright, 1899, western Newspaper Union
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