The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-04
coon Work.

Line government seems to nave the
Cuban problem we'll in hand and "recon-
struction' is proceeding there in very
reassurng way. General Wood receives
encomiums on all sides as being the
right man in the right place He found
difficulty at Santiago, where for years
had been the focus of the Cuban
instruction, and where agricul-
ture and practically all the arts
of peace along the coast and in the in
terror towns, had been abandoned on ac-
count of grim visaged war" in gener-
al, the blockade by the Spanish includ-
ed. Disease and famine and filth pre-
vailed at Santiago, the stencil was fear
full and there We're sometimes two hun
dred deaths day in the hospitals
there. Starvation and death We're on
every side, and dread of yellow fever
was universal. The work before Gen.
eral Wood in this field alone suggested
the cleaning of the Augean stables. The
energetic sanitary measures enforced
by General Wood soon, however,
brought down the death rate until
now the number of deaths is very small
comparatively. Then the restitution
had to be faced. Want and woe were
encountered on every side. Hundreds
Of thousands of rations We're fed to
the starving, work on roads and else
where was supplied to those needing it
and able to do it, the invalids were
cared for by competent doctors, and the
result is that altogether highly cheer
full state of affairs now prevails in this
region. Also in Holguin in eastern Gu
ba the situation was like that at San
tiago, and no less than three thousand
cases of smallpox, most of them of vir-
ulent type, were found there. But by
similar work done by the American of
ficials there to that at Santiago, in two
months time wonderful change for
the better was secured. These results
are most gratifying, and similar work
has been done in many other places on
the island
Reforms have been also instituted in
the administration of law. Spanish
methods and practice which forbade "a
prisoner to know the charge against |
him or to have access to counsel have |
been abolished, and the common law
right of habeas corpus, which was de-
MED under Spanish law, is now allowed.
no longer prevails So radi-
can and energetic has been General |
Woods treatment of this long existing !
and crying evil in that region that it
has practically ceased, and the brigands
their business being over,
have asked to be enrolled on the local
police force or for road patrol duty. A
strong incentive to their aba ndonment
If business was an attack by detach-
nent of our soldiers upon a leading
1and of the brigands and the killing of
eight of them and the capture of forty
,r fifty Of them. Would that similar
'esults as regards the suppression of
in the Havana section of
he island, where General Wood is not
n control, could be reported.
Common schools and kindergartens
lave been established with most salts
actory results, and the natives general
y, of all ages are learning to talk Eng
ish rapidly, especially the trading
md shopping phrases. The currency
question has been adjusted, and the
luctuating double standard which was
cry annoying has been abolished and
he American standard substituted.
In Havana and other places on the
sland notable sanitary reforms have
een instituted greatly lessening the
cath rate and the Spanish and other
Id residents are not only astonished,
ut overjoyed at the splendid results as
egards public health and comfort al
eady resulting from the enforcement
y the wise sanitary measures.
Now, also, Santiago rejoices over the {
act that the railroad so long projected {
etween that city and Havana will soon I
e authorized and begun.
BY and by, after the good United t
tates system Of running things be- s
ONES established in the island the tide =,
public opinion in favor of annexation | !
i'll become so strong that Uncle Sam
Ill have to extend his arms and annex {
ne island to his domain for good and
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