Show our OIN opportunity in latin america A A A by JOHN JOH N BARRETT BARRET Tj in the review of Revie reviews wc these thesa are the times when everybody should be studying the twenty american r republics c p lying south of bf the united states these ore are the days of unprecedented and legitimate opportunity in latin america for the commercial and financial interests of this country this presents year should be the beginning of a new epoch in the material social and political relations of north and south america the next ten years are going to be all american years all america Is to attract the attention of nil all americans this new development Is inevitable the cause Is found in the natural wealth resources and potentialities of central and south america their actual commerce and trade their remarkable progress during recent years tog together ether with the unceasing propaganda of the ran pan american kmer ican union which was at first even ridicule dand little appreciated but Is now generally valued and recognized the occasion of thi tills new interest ai at this moment Is the european war and the emphasis it has PI placed aced upon the geographical segregation and commercial soil boll 1 darity of the nations of the western hemisphere consider latin america in any phase one prefers and it ts is worthy of keen interest let us first look qt at it geographically graphically lind and physically we see twenty countries ranging in area from little salvador with tess less than square miles or smaller than vermont up to mighty might brazil with square miles or greater than ithan the united states proper with great britain th thrown awn in binl I 1 la in nil ali they spread ov ever r nearly neaily square miles or three times the connected area of bf the united states I 1 they contain mountains mountain 1 higher rivers longer and more navigable valleys wider and more fertile and climates more varied thau than those of the united states noting the population wefond we find that costa rica starts the small end of the list with inhabitants and brazil tops it with a ath all latin america supports today approximately a population of 75 which is increasing by reproduction 0 n faster than is the population of the united states when the new emigration from europe starts in titter after the war and when the panama canal is in full use by the shipping of a peaceful europe this total may soon overtake and pass that of the chii big slater bisier nation of north america we ore a almost astonished by the figures of latin american commerce they make us respect many of the southern republics and peoples even if some other influences may not be so favorable last year the twenty southern neighbors of the united states through sheer strength and capacity pushed uli up the total of their foreign trade to the huge sum of nearly this was divided almost equally between exports and imports with the actual balance of trade in their favor argentina tor for example with on an ambitious vigorous a and nd prosperous people numbering about nine millions of souls conducted a foreign commerce valued at the surprising total of which makes an average of about per head chile a lind land of achievement and promise lying on the pacific coast of south america like I 1 the st stated atef of california oregon and washington on the pacific slope of the united states covering an area of nearly square miles or more than that of texas and directly tributary to too panama canal bought and sold in ta foreign com coca merce products valued at nearly |