4 era una fuente de materias primas un mercado para los productos industriales de las potencias y una reserva de población para incrementar sus ejercicios en una época en que se reducieron las guerras locales

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.