Show I THE WORK PERFORMED IN CUBA Not many people realize the work that the Americans have performed In I Cuba They found the island prostrate after years of war It was in part a race war and had been attended by unusual ferocities A deliberate attempt at-tempt had been made by the Spaniard in command to starve to death something some-thing like one million of people He I had half succeeded and quite four hundred hun-dred thousand wretches needed food Of these perhaps onefourth were past cure and had to be buried The fields had been devastated the people were both idle and embittered chaos ruled Order htid to be established and maintained main-tained the people l had to be fed the cities that were pestholes had to be cleaned and the rebellious clement In the island had to be restrained For the six months ending Juno 30 ISDJ there had been expended for sanitation SI712011 for charities and hospitals S203SS127 for the aid of the destitute SS9H 03 Over 6503000 rations had been issued to the destitute people The island was divided Into four provinces prov-inces and In Havana a house to house canvass was made to search out the cases of destitution and outside the city a wagontrain service waskcreatcd for the same purpose Time most difficult duly was 1 to find employment for tho Idle and the needy The utmost exertion was made to accomplish ac-complish this Vc can recall no similar simi-lar record on tho part of any conquering conquer-ing power 1 The poor wore fed the cities made as healthy as the cities of our Southern coast the children were sent to school the sick were given modern mod-ern treatment in modern hospitals so far as possible the former Industries of the island were revived and order was maintained It is a great record and reflects as much honor upon tho United Slates as did the feats of arms I performed by the navy and at my It I ought to be recorded as the greatest I triumph ever wrought by a free people in behalf of an oppressed people who when liberated were found be starving starv-ing It Js a triumph of free institutions and It has no parallel on earth |