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Excerpt from The New-Born Cuba
The old saying that to start right is half the battle never had a better opportunity for exemplification than in the first steps of the reconstruction of Cuba by the United States. The world never saw a similar situa tion. An attempt has been made in these pages to tell what certain of the problems involved were and how they were met. Most of the chapters of this book ap peared in a series of articles printed in harper's weekly early in 1899, but it has seemed best to supplement them with others giving a fuller account of what took place in Cuba in the first sixty days of American occupation and control, when the twig was bent for future growth. Whether the grown tree shall bear the fruit of national independence or of colonial dependence or of complete political assimilation depends largely upon the develop ment and conditions of the future. The twig certainly was trained to stand erect and to grow straight and true by the American army officials and others, so as to pro duce national independence. What some of the agencies were that were used to that end and who some of the leading men were that carried out with absolute fidelity and most faithful zeal the orders issued in accordance.
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