The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-04
PRESIDENT PR0CLAIMS PEACE
In PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO
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duties, and the Philippine commission is
made the superior authority in the fol-
lowing order.
The instruction against The sovereign
authority of the United States in the
Philippine archipelago having ended, and
provincial civil government having been
established throughout the entire terri
tory of the archipelago, not inhabited by
Moro tribes, under the instructions of
the Philippine commission dated April
Z, 800, now ratified and confirmed by the
act of Congress- apr owed July I, 1902.
entitled, an act temporarily to provide
for the administration of affairs of civil
government in the Philippine Islands and
| for other purposes. the general COM
handing the division Of the Philippines
is hereby relieved from the further per-
Torrance Of the duties of military gov
err ment snd the office Of military COVER
nor in said archipelago Ia terminated.
! The general commanding the division of
the Philippines and all military officers
in authority theI Elm, will continue to OBJ
| serve the directions, contained in the
aforesaid instructions of the President,
| that the military forces in the division Of
the Philippines shall be at all time sub
/ ject under the order of the military
commander, 70 the call of the civil au-
thorities for the maintenance of law and
| order and the enforcement of their au-
thority"
President Thanks Army.
Finally the President through Secretary
Root prcnounces the following eulogy
upon the United States army:
General Orders No. &c.
/ Headquarters of the Army,
Adjutant Generals office.
Washington, July L. 1902.
The following has been received from
the War Department.
Washington. July l. 1902.
The President upon his anniversary of
national independence wishes TO express
to the officers and enlisted men of the
United States army his deep appreciation
of the service they have rendered to the
people in the great and difficult u.der-
takings which they have brought TO a
successful conclusion during the past
year.
He thanks the officers and the enlist
| ed men who have been maintaining order
and carrying on the military government
In Cuba because they have faithfully CIV
en- effect to the humane purposes of the
American people. They have with sincere
kindness helped the Cuban people to take
all the successive steps necessary to the
establishment of their constitutional gov
eminent. During the time required for
that process they have governed Cuba
wisely, regarding justice and respecting
individual liberty, have honestly collect
| ed and expended for the best interests of
| the Cuban people the revenues amounting
to over sixty million dollars, have carried
out practical and thorough sanitary meas
ures, greatly improving the health and
i lowering the death rate of the island.
Put an End to Disease.
By patient. scientific research they have
ascertain the causes of yellow fever and
by good administration have put an END
to that most dreadful disease which has
long destroyed the lives and hindered the
commercial prosperity Of the Cubans
They have expedited justice and secured
| protection for the rights of the innocent
while they have cleansed the prisons and
established sound discipline and healthful
conditions for the punishment of the
| guilty.
They have re-established and renovated
and put upon a substantial basis ade-
quate hospitals and asylums for the care
of the unfortunate. They have estab-
| lished a general system of free common
schools throughout the islands in which
over two hundred thousand children are
In actual attendance. They have con-
structed great and necessary public
works. They have gradually trained the
Cubans themselves in all branches of ad-
ministration, so that the new govern.
ment on assuming power has begun Its
work with an experienced force of Cuban
civil service employees competent to exc
cute its orders. They have borne them
selves with dignity and self-control, SC
that nearly four years Of military occu-
patton have passed unmarried by injury
or insult to man or woman. They have
transferred the government of Cuba to
the Cuban people amid universal express
sions of friendship and good will, and
have left record of ordered Justice and
/ liberty, of rapid Improvement In material
and moral conditions and progress in the
art of government which reflects great
credit upon the people of the United
| States.
Thanks Officers and Men.
The President thanks the officers and
enlisted men of the army in the Philip-
pines, both regulars and volunteers for
the courage and fortitude, the indomita-
BILE spirit and loyal devotion with which
| they have put down and ended the great
| insurrection which had ragged throughout
the archipelago against the lawful SOW
ereignty and just authority of the Unit
ed States The task was particularly Diff
| ficult and trying. They were required
! first to overcome organized resistance
| of superior numbers, well equipped with
| modern arms, entrenched in an unknown
country Of mountain defles, jungles and