The Story of Mexico: Complete-Authoritative-Up-to-Date : Giving a ...
The Story of Mexico: Complete-Authoritative-Up-to-Date : Giving a ...
Morris Charles
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+i,*^i^^® those landowners can be sure that if they plant crops the land, crops and all, will not be turned over to their farmhands. ^ u ver Gonzalo Bautista, a member of con- gress, opened the public eye to the country's decrease in crops when he presented to the chamber of deputies official figures showing that the out- put of corn and beans, the country's prime necessities, had dropped in 1929 and 1930 to not much over one-fourth of the output in 1910, Porflrio Diaz's last year in office. De...creased production was attributed to two principal results of the agrar- ian law: that large landowners hesi- tated to plant in view of the possibil- ity of losing their land before the crops could be harvested, and that peasants, to whom land has been dis- tributed In small parcels, either could not finance crops or lacked Initiative to work the lands efficiently _ *P*^^^ ^ Digitized by ^^UU^IC Poifirio Diaz, the grand old man of Mexico, has had one of the most spec- tactdar of careers. Bom in 1830, he was educated for the priesthood but at sixteen forsook that for the law.
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