In the four years that the Reguladora corner lasted, more than $200,000,000 in advanced prices were taken from American buyers, an average advance of more than 200 per cent. Thus, granting a legitimate doubling of the price of the fiber in keeping with the doubling of the costs of other commodities in this period (1915-1919), the accepted figure of $112,000,000 of direct loot through the Alvarado henequen corner may be taken as literally true. And this was loot that never reached either the cruel hacendados who owned the farms or the workers who furnished the labor for the creation of the product. All this and more went into the bottomless pit of Mexican revolutionary graft. This henequen corner was, it must be remembered, created in the name of socialism and the salvation of the downtrodden peon. Along with it went a mass of other activities, wherein the funds derived from the sale of henequen at the advancing prices were turned to schemes of ostensible government ownership, socialization and coöperation. Before even the hacendados were given the 4 cents a pound guaranteed them as first payment against the great profits to come from the “corner,” the Reguladora funds were invested in the purchase of the state railways, at prices to this day unknown. These funds also financed the organization of the _Compañia de Fomento del Sur-Est_ (Development Company of the South-East) and bought nine old Mexican coasting steamers at a cost of $4,000,000 so that the socialists of Yucatan might not be dependent on capitalistic steamship lines. The Reguladora also financed the drilling of oil wells, and built a flock of tanks to contain the oil--which never came out of the ground. It also built a railway, confiscating therefor, “for the common good,” one-tenth of all the rails and equipment of the private plantation railways on the henequen farms; in a few months it sold this railway to a favorite for $150,000, a tenth of its cash cost, payable in ten years. The _Cia. de Fomento del Sur-Est_ entered upon the business of relieving the oppressed proletariat from the wicked prices for the necessities of life fixed by capitalistic grocerymen. It bought its own supplies in the United States, transported them in its own steamers, and sold them--for more than the current retail rates! The proletariat did not benefit from any of these schemes, but the government henchmen who bought in the United States, and those who sold in Yucatan, waxed fat and comfortable, although remaining firm and loyal socialists to the end.