Excerpt from A Star of Hope for Mexico Another difficulty was the poverty of the treasuries of both the States and the nation. Continuous revolutions had left the. People in a wretched condition and almost without funds. Haciendas, churches, and towns were alike stripped of every form of wealth-the people were bled white by war. Such conditions gave the national government the excuse to turn over the financing and control of the schools to the States and the weak and impoverished States proceeded immediately to pass the ...
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Excerpt from A Star of Hope for Mexico Another difficulty was the poverty of the treasuries of both the States and the nation. Continuous revolutions had left the. People in a wretched condition and almost without funds. Haciendas, churches, and towns were alike stripped of every form of wealth-the people were bled white by war. Such conditions gave the national government the excuse to turn over the financing and control of the schools to the States and the weak and impoverished States proceeded immediately to pass the business on the municipios, which, like our New England towns, covered large country districts. Nothing was accomplished by this shifting of responsibility. If the nation was bankrupt, the States were also exhausted; and, if the States had no money, the towns from which they derived their revenues were, of course, equally impoverished. So that, even after the authority was given them to establish schools, the towns were' unable to support the stupendous undertaking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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