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Moreover, the tremendous increase in the tax burden, the sale of
La Mesilla, the grasping conduct of the government-protected
tobacco monopolists, the confiscatory measures, and the collapse
of the reform program initiated by IIaro y Tamariz all helped
add to the administration's unpopularity.14
Some of the government's concessions to the conservatives like-
wise proved unfortunate in several respects. By espousing protec-
tionism, Santa Anna renounced the possibility of increasing cus-
tom revenues by reducing excessive rates and removing prohibi-
tions. In addition, he damaged his popularity with frontiersmen
and citizens of the hot lands, who were being exploited by the
agriculturalists and industrialists of the plateau.s5 His efforts to
protect the hacendados' monoply of the soil likewise worked against
the stability and permanency of his regime. The revolution of
Ayutla, while not an agrarian movement either in its inspiration
or expressed ideology, attracted many poor people to its support,
and brought forth many popular leaders. This phenomenon cer-
tainly cannot be attributed to political motives, for the masses
were far too ignorant to possess them. On the other hand, the
maldistribution of Mexico's soil was sufficient, at that time, to
12, 1855; and B[enito] G6mez Farlas to Mi queridisimo papd, November
30, 1854, and March 27, 1855-all in G6mez Farias Papers; also, draft of
a letter of Corona to Santa Anna, January 16, 1855, Crimenes de los gen-
erales, I; also, drafts of letters of Corona to Santa Anna, March 29, 1855;
June 12, 1855; June 18, 1855; and July 2, 1855-all in Orimenes de los
generates, II; also, Zamacois, Historia de Mdjico, XIV, 16; Portilla,
Historic, 174.
14Valentfn G[6mez] Farfas to Queridisimo Casimiro, December 9, 1853;
B[enito] G6mez Farfas to Mi querido papd, January 28, 1854, and Feb-
ruary 28, 1854-all in G6mez Farias Papers; also, Mariano Ruiz to Mariano
Riva Palacio, August 23, 1855, and circular of Manuel Arrac6, June 15,
1855, Riva Palacio Papers; Santa Anna to Corona, June 20, 1855, and
July 11, 1855, Crimenes de los generales, II; Weekly Picayune, August 1,
1853; Diario official, July 5, 1855, and July 17, 1855; New York Tribune,
May 2, 1854; Olasagarre, Informe, 2-3, 15, 24-25;Lerdo de Tejada, Memoria,
17; Domenech, Histoire du Mexique, I, 262; Portilla, Historia, 8, 22, 100,
227; Castafios, Discurso, 13-15; Vigneaux, Souvenirs, 279, 298-299; Rivera
Cambas, Historia de Jalapa, IV, 527, 545; Zamacois, Historia de Mdjico,
XIV, 12-13, 24; Revere, Keel and saddle, 191-192.
IsCasimiro G6mez Farfas to Mi muy querido papd, July 6, 1853, and
July 13, 1853, G6mez Farias Papers; Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, Comercio
esterior de M6xico desde la conquista hasta hoy, 31; Prieto, Circular, 13;
Weekly Picayune, June 20, 1853, and November 7, 1853; United States
Congressional Document Series, Thirty-fourth Congress, First Session,
House Executive Document Number 47, vol. I, pp. 578, 589; Santa Anna
to Corona, February 25, 1855, Crimenes de los generales, II; Olasagarre,
Informe, 2.302
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