Mexican Problems (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Mexican Problems In the meantime, his wife, poorly fed, ignorant, without money to buy milk, perceived that only the stronger children could be expected to survive infancy. This increase in the price of food was due partly to better railway communications between local markets, partly to the depreciation of silver, partly to the failure of production to equal that of population, since the feudal landholders were too lazy to place under cultivation a larger extent of the land they owned than was necessary for securing the customary income without personal inconvenience or effort of any kind. As the "haciendados" refused to increase salaries while the price of necessities rose, the peon, conquered by hunger, was forced to escape and try to secure work in the mines or in the cities. The inhabitants of the farms near the railway were often successful I in their flight; but in sections farther from the railroad they were caught and if the first and second attempts resulted simply in a beating-, the third meant two years in the army. Although he called himself a "liberal" in the beginning, shortly after his accession to power in 1876, Porfirio Diaz converted himself into the voluntary instrument of the land-holders and speculators who managed the Conservative Party. He perfected the body of Rurales for the capture of the slaves, and found it most useful for the "adjustment" of industrial strikes, by means of the simple process of consigning the leaders of the latter to the army or to the grave. In order to replace the peons who escaped from the "haciendas" situated in the highlands, and to obtain new victims for the inhuman conditions of tropical agriculture existing in Yucatan and in the Valle Nacional, the system of "enganche" was installed with the help of the Rurales. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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