Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-01-30

.arIeties of ii than it has been the lot
of many men ever to have placed up
on their shoulders.
Not long after this there came the
greater opportunities in Havana. 1t
was necessary to re-write the election
laws to make them tit 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-
lished law and order protection Of
life and property, and liberty witch
in the law.
These were the foundation stones.
Wood knew that the government must
be run by the Cubans, and so so per
cent of the officials engaged in the
great work of reconstruction were
selected from the people of the island.
The Cubans were 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 to reer-
ganize the Cuban railroads Wood Sc
cured the services of Sir William Van
Horne, president of the Canadian Pa
cific, and of Granville VI. Dodge, build
er of the Union Pacific.
The same general policy was fol-
lowed in deaifng 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 tie
establishment of system for placing
and permanently caring for these lit /
tie deSolates. Chief Justice White (
of the Supreme court of the United
States. mt that time an associate jus !
lice, was consulted as to the method to |
he pursued in recognizing the courts /
Leonard Wood was in Cuba about /.
four years. He left there reOrgan- /
lied and sound banking system. Il
good railroad system. no debts, nearly /
100000 unncumiered money in the /
treasury, a sugar crop of nearly 1.OOO.-
00G tons, sound municipal laws. fine
public works. firm agricultural
and an absolute respect
among the people for life and prop
arty. The school system which Wood
established was founded on the laws
If Massachusetts and Ohio. Roads 4
we're built which made communication .
peedy. The hospitals erected under his
were of the highest type
Lord CrOmer said he wished this
American officer was available to fol- .
ow him in his reconstruction work
n Egypt. Elihu Root said this work
lever was paralleled. in colonial pos 4
essions anywhere. Theodore Roose- I
-elt said that Leonard Wood has
endered services to Cuba of a kind
which, if performed three thousand =
ears ago, would have made him a Z
ero mixed up with the sun god in va
ious ways"
After the Cuban experience Wood '
as for five years in the Philippines :
onfronted with the difficult labor Of .
a civil government, this
me among M0hammedan people.
here he did the same successful .
'ork he did in Cuba. .
This period of residence in the Phil
pines gave Wood an opportunity to .
.udy conditions in the British colo >
les. Borneo. Singapore. and to keep :
close touch with conditions in
lpan and along the China coast =
'ood Travelled through India, spent :,
,me time with the Dutch in Java, and =
18th Lord Cromer in Egypt He :,
aimed and retained knowledge of all '.
hich at that time came under his stu =,
Gus observation. .
Then Leonard Wood became chief Z
the general @aff of the United '.
-ates army, in whose hands rests "a
ny largely the direction and admin o
jration of The military establishment. =
hich afrr all is 80 per cent bust
,ss matter. %
The administrative career of Leon ..
q Wood is spread upon the records y
his country. The work which he
IS done is lasting It is a states 20
ms work -