The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-04-24
PROBLEMS FACING
A STRICKEN WORLD
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economic cripple. Her body is great
and powerful; the physical constitu-
ton is strong. One arm, agriculture,
is OverdevelOped, and its 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. 1 refer to
his withered, undeveloped baby arm.
RuSsia's undeveloped industrial arm Is
just such crippled, useless arm. Ref
erence to the ex-emperor, who is now
saving wood in Holland, suggests to
my mind the words of q great German
economist, List: :
"A nation cannot promote and fur
Their it's 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 a 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's moral. intellec-
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 advspced 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 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 1t will produce, 1t must walt
and see how much others will buy from
it. The agricultural-manufac
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 a
more or less bountiful harvest in the
gricultural-manufactu n I / o s.
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
I trading with Observation-Disclosures
! ing nations by war or new tarins,
whereby they suffer the double disad-
vantage of finding no buyers for thSir
surplus agricultural products and OF
failing to obtain supplies Of the man
ufaetured 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 man who has two
good arms Of his own at his disposal
Poland Cited as an Example.
List further points out that the rel
ative cultivation of the agricultural
and manufacturing arms of country
possessed of an ample and fertile ter
/ ritory will give that country a popu
lation twice to three times as large
as 1t could secure by the development
of the agricultural arm alone, anC
maintain this vastly increased popula
ton in q much higher degree Of com
fort. Surplus agricultural produce II
not necessarily capital in an agricultu
raj country. Countries which product
such a surplus and remain dependen
upon manufacturing countries arr
often obliged to pur hase these manu-
featured goods at an enhanced price
He points to Poland as an example
She exported the fruits Of her soil t.
obtain the goods which she could hav'
manufactured from IL. As a conse
uuence she fell like q house of card
when organized nations attacked her
List considers that had Poland devel
oped her manufacturing arm, beside.
retaining her national independence
she would have exceeded any othe
European country in prosperity. II
use Lists words: '.Go to fallen Polan'
and ask its hapless people now whethe
1t is advisable for a nation to buy tn
fabrics of a foreign country so loni
as it's native manufacturers are no
sufficiently strengthened to be able &
compete in price and quality with tn
foreigners"
Bolshevism has set out to socializ
political. 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 MINI
when examining the Lenine panaces
; Copyright. 1890. Western Newspaper Union
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