Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-04

which they have brought to a successful
conclusion during the past year,
He thanks the officers and the enlisted
men who have been maintaining order and
carving on the military government in
Cuba because they have faithfully given
effect to the humane purposes OF the Amer
lean people. They have with sincere KIND
ness helped the Cuban people to take all
the successive steps necessary to the es-
tablishment of their own constltutlonai
government. During the time required for
that process they have governed Cuba
wisely regarding justice and respecting in
d!yidual liberty; nave honestly collected
and expended for the best interests OF the
Cuban people the revenues, amounting TO
over sixty millions of dollars; have carried
out practical and sanitary measures, great
" improving the health and lowering the
death rate of the island BY patient, sci
entiiic research they have ascertained the
causes of yellow fever ana by gooo ADMIN
istratiou 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 ex-
pedited Justice and secured protection Tor
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
substantial basis adequate hospitals and
asylums for the care of the unfortunate
They have established general system OF
free common schools throughout the is
land in which over two hundred thousand
children are in actual attendance. They
have constructed great and necessary pub
lie works. They have gradually trained the
Cubans themselves in all branches of ad-
mnist ra ton so that the new government
upon assuming power has begun its work
with an experienced force of Cuban CIVIL
service employees competent to execute It's
orders They have borne themselves with
dignity and self-control so that nearly four
years of military occupation have passed
unmarried by injury or insult to man or
woman. They have transferred the gov
eminent of Cuba to the Cuban people amid
universal expressions 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
The President thanks the officers and en-
| listed of the army in the Philippines,
both regulars and volunteers. for the cour--
age and fortitude, the indomitable spirit
and loyal devotion with which they have
put down and ended the great instruction
which has ragged throughout the archipela
go agains: the lawful sovereignty and just
authority of the United States. The task
was peculiarly difficult and trying. They
were required at first to overcome organ
lied resistance of superior numbers, well
| equipped with modern arms of precision, in.
| trenched in an unknown country Of NOUN
| tain defiles, jungles and swamps, apparently
capable of irterminabl defense When this
| resistance had been overcome they were re-
| quired to crush out a general system OF
| guerrilla warfare conducted among a peo-
| pie speaking unknown tongues from whom
| 1t was almost impossible to obtain the IN
| formation necessary for successful pursuit
| or to guard against surprise and ambush.
| The enemies by whom they were sur
rounded were regardless Of all obligations
| of good faith and Of all the limitations
| which humanity has imposed upon civilized
warfare. Bound themselves by the laws of
| war, our soldiers were called upon to meet