Show AMERICAS TASK ifr CUBA The task presented for the Americans In Cuba was no light one for It was to bring order out of chaos and it can be said < wlthout prejudice that mo people peo-ple could have done it quicker or more effectively says J D Whelpley in the July Atlantic The starving were fed life was rendered safe In every city village and neighborhood The customhouses custom-houses were turned into mints and the money collected therein was hon ostly accounted for The entire island was cleansed and disinfected actually and figuratively speaking To sum up everything accomplished Is to say that Cuba was policed as no SpanishAmeri can country has ever been In the his tory of this hemisphere Natives as well as foreigners breathed a sigh of relief Moil ventured into the fields to crop the land The quick soil responded respond-ed gladly to slight encouragement Commerce revived and gathered strength as the months went by for over all floated the flag of the United States which meant that here there and everywhere were the quiet keen eyed resolute ofllcers of the American army with hundreds of sturdy Impetuous Impe-tuous and wellequipped soldiers at their call So far all was well The United States had carried out Its pro gramme The Spaniards had been driven from Cuba and order was restored re-stored This closed the first chapter of American Intervention In Cuba Difficult Diffi-cult and trying as it was It was easy of accomplishment as compared to what was to follow because the Americans Ameri-cans had thus far required no cooperation coopera-tion or assistance They conceived and followed their own plans While earned ear-ned out in a strange land and under new conditions they were not unfamiliar unfa-miliar with the work Distress had been relieved and order restored everywhere every-where It was merely a matter of adapting man material and commonsense common-sense to a tropical climate |