Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-06-12
economic cripple. Her body is r~,

Wv" - strong. One arm. agricuTtura I
% o'erdeVeloped. and its overdevelap /
"ielll mas been at the sacrifice OF th.
o'her arm. Russia. economically in
Tl nv physical respect, reminds me OF
"hhern Hohenzollcrn. late Of PruS
S."' now living in Holland. refer 10
ms Withered, undeyeloped baby arm.
i>uNSiA undeveloped industrial arm i,
just such crippled useless arm. Ref,
ereice 10 the eX-cmperor, who is now
saving wood in Holland. suggests to
my mind the words of a great German
economist, List:
nation cannot promote ana fur,
ther It's civilization. its prosperity and
us social progress equally as well by
exchanging agricultural products for
manufactured goods as by establishing
manufacturing power of its own. \
merely agricultural nation can never
develop To any extent a home or
foreign commerce, with inland means
of transport and foreign navigation
increase It's population in due proper
u"n to their wellbeing, or make no
aole progress In its moral. intenoc-
tuai. social and political development:
II VIII never acquire important p0liti-
cal power or be placed I'm position t.
influence the cultivation and progress
or less advanced nations and to form
colonies Of its own. A mere agricultu-
raj state is infinitely less powerful
pgr~ip IL trro OF 20 rriYN.
state. The former is always econOm-
ically and politically dependent on
those foreign nations which take from
II agriculture in exchange for manu-
featured goods. It cannot determine
how much 1t will produce. if must wait
and see how much others will buy from
it, The agricultural-manufa
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 a I IA :.
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 aH1cultural-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 Ii 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 necessariE capital in an agricuitu-
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 ii. AS q conse
ouence 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. TIC
nse Lists words: "Go TO fallen Poland
and ask its hapless people now whether
If is advisable for nation TO buy the
fabrics of a foreign country so lon2
| rs it's native manufacturers are mo-
sufficiently strengthened to be able t'
compete in price and quality with the
foreigners"
Bolshevism has set out to sociaiizt
nolItical agricultural and industrial
Russia and as expect to examine TN
effects of communism in each of thes'
departments of Russian life have Sc
down some historical and economical
truths which must be kept in min'
when examining the Lenine panacea
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