Synopses & Reviews
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE BUILDER OF REPUBLICS Military Governor of Cuba?Gains good-will of the Catholic Church?Wood's modest summary of his work?The scourge of yellow fever?The fever eradicated?A Cuban republic set up?Secretary Root's appraisal of Wood?The Rath bone charges?Appointed civil governor of Moro Province in the Philippines?His studies en route?The prejudice against him in the army?Studying the Moros upon the ground? War with the Datu Ali?Fierce battle in a volcanic crater? A congressional inquiry?Changed feeling in the army? Made grand officer of the Legion of Honor. The remarkable success which had been achieved by General Wood as Governor of the Province of Santiago led to his appointment as Military Governor of Cuba, in which office, as a result of centuries of misrule, vast problems of reform had to be taken up and solved. None of these were more delicate for a Protestant Governor to handle than the questions concerning the Catholic Church, which was established here in power as it was in every other Spanish colony. It is a tribute no less to the firmness than to the tact of the Governor that when he was stricken down with typhoid fever, the Bishop of Havana led the people of the island in solicitous interest and had prayers offered in the churches throughout the island for his recovery. General Wood was Military Governor of Cuba from December 12,1899, until the transfer of the government to the Cuban Republic on May 20, 1902. His own modest summary of the transformations which had been wrought during this period has been published in volume xxi. of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, from which article the following paragraphs have been taken: Conditions in Santiago at the time of occupancy were as unfavorable as can be i...
Synopsis
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.