The economic power acquired by the Order in its diverse Counties of America was enormous. The creators of the first industries are considered and, acting interrelacionadamente their diverse "counties", they operated like a true transnational" "company they Regulated the price of the leather and livestock with the production of their vast country properties in all America and they were able to impose in the whole environment of the south cone of America the habit of the consumption of the dull herb, taken place by the reductions Jesuit in the county of Missions .

At the same time, their theologians refuted the genuineness of the concept of divine" "right that sustained the power of all the monarchies of Europe

The economic might and a revolutionary conception religious-politics, besides the prevailing laicismo in the intellectual class and European politics, they developed a strong antagonism against the Order.