Annual Report of Brigadier General James H. Wilson, U.s.v., Commanding the Department of Matanzas and Santa Clara: To which is Appended Special Report on the Industrial, Economic and Social Conditions Existing in the Department at the Date of American Occupation, and at the Present Time

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Page 123 - SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report covering the operations of the bureau of posts for the fiscal year ending June 30.
Page 24 - AMERICAN HISTORY AND ECONOMICS FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOSÉ AUGUSTO ESCOTO OF MATANZAS. CUBA...
Page 87 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 243 - it exceeded that of any other tropical area of its size in the world." When this in considered in connection with the further fact that the trade of the United States with tropical countries amounts to about 65 per cent of its total trade with the remainder of the world, it will be seen that the establishment of proper economic conditions in this island, and of proper trade relations with the United States, is of even greater importance than the establishment of proper political institutions. The...
Page 239 - The actual situation of affairs, it is believed, is different from any that has ever prevailed in a civilized country. It is difficult to perceive how the devastation in the Palatinate or in the Netherlands could have been more complete. The persistent call for assistance in the various agricultural districts is based upon the fact that the island itself, although not deprived of capital — but having no banks and being left in a state of uncertainty as to the particular form of government and the...
Page 230 - ... courts, and of orders from these headquarters in regard to shooting without sufficient justification, has greatly checked this evil. As before stated, the natives are naturally a sober, orderly, and inoffensive people, who willingly obey the constituted authority and rarely give violent cause for arrest. The most serious, in fact the only, disturbances which have occurred in this department were between the police and drunken and disorderly American soldiers or quartermaster's employees, who...
Page 232 - ... governmental machinery seriously deranged, a proper idea can be formed of their situation and of what they have accomplished in eight months. It is true that in reaching this result the municipal authorities have had the benefit of the advice and supervision of the intelligent officers of my staff and of local commanders where troops are stationed, but it is equally true that those officers were, in nearly every instance, novices in such work themselves, and that the work could not possibly have...
Page 74 - I must again urge the necessity of some action to relieve the wants of the agricultural population, and to put agriculture on a sound basis with the least possible delay. Many of the small farmers, and some of the owners of
Page 5 - ... those of his tent mates, as also the tents of the troop to which he belonged, were carefully disinfected. The department commander, Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson, United States Volunteers, has referred in the following language to the exceptionally good health enjoyed by the troops under his command : While the health of the troops in this department has been exceptionally good, there can be no question that this, in a great measure, is the result of the thorough sanitary regulations which have...
Page 250 - the most-favored nations" clause, or that the United States could not spare the revenue which itwould lose on Cuban products, and especially on Cuban sugar, this would perhaps be an argument in favor of the early admission of both Cuba and the other West Indian islands into the Union, or at least for much closer relations with the United States than they have hitherto enjoyed. The settlement of these questions must necessarily be left to Congress, and hence I do not discuss them more fully in this...

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