Bisbee daily review., 1916-02-18
SOCIAL UNREST HAD IN LATIN
 AMERICA
A Vast Industrial and Social Revolution is Predicted for the Next Generation in Gen. tral and Sout America.

PANAMA, Feb. 17.-A vast industri- al revolution in Latin-America within the next generation is predicted in the report of the Commission on Message and Method which was presented to- day to the Congress on Christian Work in Latin-America in session here
 "The people of the next generation in the Southern continent" says the report. will live in a very different world from that of their, forbears. Great changes are imminent every where but perhaps nowhere else will they be quite so vast during the next thirty years as in Latin-Ameriea."
 The report points out that the enor- nous natural resources of the South ern half of the. continent are on the verge of a rapid development as the result of the billions of foreign capital which have been invested there within recent years and because of the in- creasing demands by the Old World on the New for food supplies
 "A very important agency in this expansion" the Commission finds, will be the incoming of the factory system. Skilled labor once attracted raw materials from a great distance; we are now finding that in many forms of industry raw materials attract capi- tai and develop labor for their manu- factlres in close proximity. Many kinds of manufactured goods now cost several times as much in Latin-Ameri- ca as they do elsewhere, which fact of course constitutes premium on the establishment of factories near the source of raw materials and close to markets"
 The Commission forecasts momen- tous change in the habits and stand ards of living of the people of the C~utbern republics as the results of the new era which it sees dawning.
 "The incoming of the factory" it says. "the opening up of virgin resourc es and the dcvelopm&r, Of commerce creaie conditions of life as far remov- cd from those v'r"h attend civiliza- ton nrinia arilv aor1cultural a' the East is from the West. Daily habits. the standard of living. methods of housing sanitation. the density of population, the death rate. the marriage rate. the birth rate. interdependence between individuals, classes, communities and nations. and thousand other things are all profoundly affected by the or eanization of industry and the result ing development of mines. railways and factories"
 The renort declares that the vast amount of capital required to open up the resources of the Southern coun- tries cannot be supplied by Latin-Am- orleans but must come largely from Europe and the United States. As an indication of how far this supplying of capital from the outside has already gone it records that Great Britain has 30 5nO. 900 900 invested in Argentina alone.
 The report accomDanies its predic- tion of great industrial revolution with a warning that now is the time 10 exert every influence to prevent that revolution from developing the evils With which it has been associated in this and European countries. II urges a united effort on the part of the Pro- testant missionary churches to save Latin-Ameriea from the industrial ills which ovist in other great commercial countries.