The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-02-15

IS AWAKENING
4 ..s
Next Thirty Years Will Witness
a Revolution In Industry In
the Continent 49,
tA,.Oci,..d Pres, By FEDERAL wir.i....,

(Associateo PresS by FEDERAL Wirelese.D
PANAMA, February IA vast in.
dustrial revolution in Latin. America
within the next generation is predict
ed in the report of the Commission on
Message and Method which was pre-
sented yesterday to the Congress on
Christian Work in Latin America in
session here.
1.-THE people of the next generation
in the southern continent" says the
report, twill live in very different
world from that Of thdir fotbears.
Great changes. are imminent every
where but perhaps nowhere else will
they be quite so vast during the next
thirty years as in Latin. America. -
The report points out that the enor-
nous natural resources of the southern
half of the continent are on the verge
Of rapid development as the result
of the billions Of foreign capital which
have been invested there within recent
years and because of the increasing
demands by the Old World on the New
for food supplies. ~.
Raw Material Attracts r.
ia very important agency in this
expansion" the Commission finds,
twill be the incoming of the factory
system. Skilled labor once attracted
law materials from a great distance;
we are now finding that in many forms
Of industry raw materials attract eapi-
tai and develop labor for their manu-.
faeture 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." Z.
The Commission forecasts q momen.
tous change in the habits and standards
IL living Of the people Of the Southern
republics as the result of the new era
which 1t sees dawning.
1.-The incoming Of the Factory" II
says, 1.-The opening up Of virgin re-
sources and the development Of com.
merce create conditions Of life as far
removed from those which attend a
civilization primarily agricultural as
the East is from the West. Daily hab.
49, e''S ot"hNuiu VI living, meJnO0B OF
housing, sanitation, the density of
population, the death rate, the marriage
rate, the .irth rate, interdependence
between individuals, classes, eommuni
ties and nations, and a thousand other
things are all profoundly affected by
the Organization Of industry and the
resulting development of mines, rail
ways and factories. -
British Investment
The. report declares that the vast
amount Of capital required to open IN
the resources Of the Southern countries
cannot be supplied by Latin Americans
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. $4,000, 0OO. 900
invested in Argentina alone.
The report accompanies its predic.
ton of a great industrial revolution
with a warning that now is the time
to 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 mart of
the Protestant missionary churches to
save Latin-America from the industrial
ills which exist in other great com.
mercial countries.