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TRUEreferred to by bigoted and ill-in-formed writers as a mild form of slavery, and the Mexican labourers* , so-called degraded condition has oftent ; been blamed to the influence of the Church. / ;Prince A. de Iturbide * furnisheB to the April “North American HeView” 1a descriptive paper on the subject, 1 entitled “Mexican Haciendas—The 1Peon System.” The latter, he says, lt;has stood long and varied tests, and i is the only system in force on the American continent that regulates the 1 relations between capital and labour 1to the satisfaction of both. {.^n the introduction to his article, j Prince de Iturbide says that the , Mexican hacienda or farm is the most j typical institution of the New World. c It is the one establishment of Cau- c casian America that has no proto- t type, reflecting as it does the condi- £ tions of life that followed the Con- quest, and having been little affected J by the social triuisformations that de-veloped the American world of to-day | out of the world that it was when v yet each Caucasian inhabitant of New j Spain was called a “ Conquistador,” . Jj and was distinguished from the con- g qered Aztec as “gente de razon”—a tman of reason!a
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London Monitor Catholic Organ For Great Britain
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, May 26, 1899
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