The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-06-04

economic cripple. Her body Is grea,
and powerful; the physical constitu
tion 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.
sia, now living in Holland. 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 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 q
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;
1t 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. mere agricultu-
rnl state Is infinitely less powerful
than an agrlculturalma
state. The former is always econom-
ically and politically dependent on
those foreign nations which take from
1t 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
II. The agricultural-man
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 |
agricultural-manufacturing lions.
They have, moreover, 10 compete in |
their sales with other purely agrlcul- |
tural nations whereby the power of |
sale In Itself is uncertain; they are eX-
posed to the danger of ruin in their
trading with a-ricultural-manufac
Ing nations by war or new tariffs, /
whereby they suffer the double disad. |
vintage of finding no buyers for their
surplus agricultural products and Of |
failing to obtain supplies Of the man
ufactured goods they require. An ag-
riculturai nation is 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-manu
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.
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 pcpul,.
ton In a much higher degree of com
fort. Surplus agricultural produce Is
not necessarily capital in nm agricrltu.
raj country. Countries which produce
such surplus and remain dependent
upon manufacturing countries are
often obliged 10 purchase these manu-
fnctured goods nj an enhanced price
He points TO Poland MS an example.
She exported the fruits OF her soil to
obtain the goods which she could have
from II. As conse-
nuence she fell like house Of cards
when organized nations attacked her
List considers that had Poland devel-
,ped her manufacturing arm. besides
retaining her national independence
she would have exceeded any ether
European country in prosperity. T"
Use Lists words: go to fallen Poland
md ask its hapless people now whether
I Is advisable for nation 10 buy the
'abrics Of n foreign country so hong
Is Its native manufacturers are not
strengthened to he able to
compete In price and quality with the
foreigners"
RolShevism has set out TO soefaliZe =
political agricultural and industrial !,
Russia, and as expect to examine the
fleets of communism In each of these
departments of Russian life I have set
Town some historical and economical
ruths which must be kept in mind
when examining the Lenine panacea.
1890. Western Newspaper Union,