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ruary, 1900), 368-79. For a detailed account of Wood's work in San
tiago and Habana, see Hagedorn, Leonard Wood, I, 184-392.
- Wood to McKinley, April 12, 1900. Quoted in Hagedorn, Leon
ard Wood, I, 285. - Ibid., p. 323.
- For an eye-witness report, see Robert P. Porter, Industrial Cuba
(New York, 1899), pp. 63-65. Porter was McKinley's special com
missioner in Cuba; he lauded Wood, but advised against forced
annexation. - Leonard Wood, "The Existing Conditions and Needs in Cuba,
North American Review, CLXVIII (May, 1899), 593-601. Wood re
peatedly told Cubans that "one cannot advance liberty by the same
methods and same laws that served tyranny." Rafael Martinez Ortiz,
Cuba: los primeros anos de independencia (2d ed.; Paris, 1924), I, 388. - Wood's report on the Department of Santiago—Puerto Principe
is part of Brooke's Civil Report, 1899, pp. 834-57. For the text of the
Provisional Constitution of Santiago de Cuba, see Ramon Infiesta,
Historia constitucional de Cuba (Havana, 1951), pp. 354-55. - Wood to Roosevelt, July 12, 1899, and August 18, 1899. Quoted
in Hagedorn, Leonard Wood, I, 251-52. - Root to Eliot, May 4, 1900. Quoted in Philip C. Jessup, Elihu
Root (New York, 1938), I, 288. - Ibid., pp. 304-5.
- "Annual Report of the Secretary of War," U.S. War Department,
Annual Reports, 1899 (Washington, 1900), I, 31-32. - The primary printed source for Wood's proconsulship is his
multi-volumed reports: Civil Report of Brigadier General Leonard
Wood, Military Governor of Cuba, for the period from December 20,
1899, to December 31, 1900 (12 vols.; Washington, 1901); Civil Report
of Brigadier General Leonard Wood, Military Governor of Cuba, for the
period January 1, 1901, to December 31, 1901 (15 vols., Washington,
1902); Civil Report of Brigadier General Leonard Wood, Military Gov
ernor of Cuba, for the period January 1, to May 20, 1902 (6 vols.,
Washington, 1902).
For his own analysis of his administration, see Leonard Wood, "The
Military Government of Cuba," Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, XXI (March, 1903), 153-82. - Hagedorn, Leonard Wood, I, 260-61.
- Scott, Some Memories of a Soldier, p. 237. The conservatives
revered Wood and hoped his authoritarian regime would continue
indefinitely. Wright, Cuba, p. 190. - Wood's economic views may be found in the following sections
of his Civil Reports: 1900—1, 89-92; 1901—1, 33; 1902—1, 12-13. For
a contrasting view, see the report of Perfecto Lacoste, Secretary of
Agriculture, Commerce, and Industries in Civil Report, 1900, VII, 10-15. - For a complete copy of the Constitution of 1901, see Civil Report,
1902, I, 243-64. For analysis, see Infiesta, Historia constitucional de
Cuba, pp. 283-323.