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long stroke shall be put to the credit side for what 

 has been done in the Philippines under Taft and his 

 associates. 



In the same way Leonard Wood worked in Cuba. 

 Put down there to do an absolutely new task, to 

 take a people of a different race, a different speech, 

 a different creed, a people just emerging from the 

 hideous welter of a war, cruel and sanguinary be- 

 yond what we in this fortunate country can readily 

 conceive, to take a people down in the depths of 

 poverty and misery, just recovering from suffer- 

 ing which makes one shudder to think of, a peo- 

 ple untrained utterly and absolutely in self-gov- 

 ernment, and fit them for it; and he did it. For 

 three years he worked. He established a school 

 system as good as the best that we have in any of 

 our States. He cleaned cities which had never been 

 cleaned in their existence before. He secured ab- 

 solute safety for life and property. He did the kind 

 of governmental work which should be the undy- 

 ing honor of our people forever. And he came 

 home to what ? He came home to be thanked by a 

 few, to be attacked by others not to their credit 

 and to have as his real reward the sense that though 

 his work had been done at pecuniary sacrifice to 

 him, that though the demands upon him had been 

 such as to eat into his private means, yet he v had 

 worthily and well done his duty as an American citi- 

 zen and reflected fresh honor upon the uniform of 

 the United States Army. 



I have chosen Taft and Wood simply as instances 



