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They are very ignorant, brutal and perfectly contented to remain as they are.  It is this class, which forms the vast majority of the people of the country that forms so unhopeful an element.  They are a millstone about the neck of progress.  In the Haciendas they work for from 25 to 50c silver a day & live little better than the beasts of the fields.  Their one pleasure in life is to secure enough money to become drunk & once drunk they nearly always become quarrelsome.  Both men and women are commanded in the habit of drinking to excess & it is an ordinary sight to see several dozen