Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05

varieties of It than it has been the 10
OF many men ever to have placed ND
on their shoulders.
Not long after this there came the
greater opportunities in Havana. II
was necessary to re-write the election
laws to make them fit the habits of the
people. Production had to be stimu
lated, for agriculture was the main
| source of the islands wealth. Here
again the same measures were follow
ed and as a result there were estab-
ilshed law and order, protection of
Ire and property, and liberty with
in the law.
These were the foundation stones.
Wood knew that the government must
De run by the Cubans, and so 80 per
cent of the officials engaged in the
great work of reconstruction were
selected from the people of the island.
Inc Cubans We're taught government
while the government was being built
and thus they We're able to run it when
the rule of the island was turned over
to its inhabitants.
When it became necessary 70 reor.
ganize the Cuban railroads Wood So
cured the services of Sir William Van
Horne, president of the Canadian Pa
cine, and of Granville NJ. Dodge, build
er of the Union Pacific.
The same general policy was fol-
lowed in dealing with the problem of
caring for the tens of thousands of
orphans that had been left by the war
Homer Folks, commissioner of chart
ties of the state of New York. was
called to Cuba by Wood to aid in THE |
establishment of a system for placing
and permanently caring for these lit |
Tie desolateS. Chief Justice White |
of the Supreme court of the United |
States, at that time an associate jus
lice, was consulted as to the method to
De pursued in reorganizing the courts. /
Leonard Wood was in Cuba about
four years. He left there a reorgan-
lied and sound banking system, a
good railroad system, no debts, nearly
S2,00OOOO unincumbered money in the
treasury, a sugar crop of nearly 1,O0O,-
JO0 tons, sound municipal laws, fine
public works, firm agricultural
foundation and an absolute respect Il
Imong the people for life and prop 1
'rty. The school system which Wood
established was founded on the laws
Il Massachusetts and Ohio. Roads
we're built which made communication
peedy. The hospitals erected under his
upervision were of the highest type.
Lord Cromer said he wished this
-merican officer was available to fol-
NV him in his reconstruction work
Egypt. Elihu Root said this work
ever was paralleled in colonial pos c
sssions anywhere. Theodore Roose-
elf said that Leonard Wood "has
'ndered services to Cuba of a kind
hich, if performed three thousand
ears ago, would have made him n L
gro mixed up with the sun god in va
Gus ways"
After the Cuban experience Wood t
rs for five years in the Philippines n
with the difficult labor of
tablishing civil government, this
ne among a Mohammedan people.
lere he did the same successful Id
)rk he did in Cuba. h;
This period of residence in the Phil
pines gave Wood an opportunity to
ldy conditions in the British colo "a
IS, Borneo, Singapore, and to keep n
close touch with conditions In
pan and along the China coast. =
BOD Travelled through India, spent
NE time with the Dutch in Java, and
tn Lord Cromer in Egypt He
lned and retained knowledge of all
itch at that time came under his stu
'us observation.
Then Leonard Wood became chief
the general staff of the United
ties army, in whose hands rests
y largely the direction and admin
ration of the military establishment,
ich after all is 90 per cent bust n
IS matter.
The administrative career of Leon
Wood is spread upon the records
his country. The work which he
done is lasting. 1t Is q states
MS work.