304Roosevelt, Theodore—continued
Caribbean Policy, 191-94, 151
52; and Cuban policy, 213-14,
238-39; friendship of, with
Leonard Wood, 2; instructions
of, to re-establish a new govern
ment, 192, 194; intervention
policy of, 63-70, 89, 92-102,
144-46, 261-62; hope of, for
peace without intervention, 89,
92-102; and justification for
intervention, 111; ordered am
munition and ships to Havana,
109, 111-12; personal diplomacy
of, 78-79; and publication of
correspondence leading to Peace
Mission, 108-9, 160; on recon
struction of Cuban armed forces,
221; and relations with Estrada
Palma government, 98-99, 110
11; on restoration and with
drawal, 245-46, 250-52
Root, Elihu, 4, 6, 8, 11, 64-65, 67,
80, 102; appointed Gen. Wood
military governor (1899), 36-37;
correspondence of, with Taft, 92,
107; on Cuban people, assess
ment of, 35-36; on Cuban politi
cal system, 146-48; on Platt
Amendment, 40-43; and policy
of independence for Cuba, 36;
as Secretary of War, 6, 35-36,
40, 42; on yellow fever control,
210
Rural Guard, 37, 51, 61-62, 70,
71, 134, 151, 222-27; American
officer-advisers of, 191-92, 223
27; creation of, 222; morale of,
225-26; police work of, 222,
223, 226, 228; posts of, 222,
225; proposal to enlarge, 227
Ryan, Capt. James A., 151, 153,
181, 224, 232
San Miguel, Antonio, 72
Sanitation, Department of, 208,
210-13
Sanitation program, 35, 48
Santa Clara province, 21, 30, 44,
50
Santiago-Puerto Principe, 30, 33
Scott, Gen. Hugh L., 5-6, 31, 121,
155
INDEXSecond Intervention; see Interven
tion, Second
Sewerage systems, 38, 205, 206
Sierra Maestre, 21
Slavery, 22, 24
Sleeper, Jacob, 63, 68, 69, 71-72,
75-76, 80
Slocum, Maj. Herbert J., 151, 153
55, 224, 226, 227, 230, 232, 252,
263
Sobrado, Manuel, 207, 253
Social structure, Cuban, 23-24;
revolutionary changes needed in,
24, 190, 262
Spaniards: antipathy of Cubans to,
23-24; and immigrants, 23, 49,
203; interest of, in annexation,
98, 171, 184; investments of, 25
Spanish-American War, 5-12
Spanish influences, 19, 21-22
Spanish law, 30-31, 198
Speck von Sternberg, Baron Her
man, 247-48, 251
Stability, Cuban, 190-220, 249;
and American policy, 265-67;
effect of economic conditions on,
43; Provisional Government and,
190-220
Steamship lines, 19, 25
Steinhart, Frank M., 71-75, 76,
80, 94, 152-54, 180, 212, 252
Sterling, Manuel Marquez, 258
Strikes, labor, 178, 203
Sugar industry, 21, 24, 38, 104,
190, 201, 203; and arson in the
fields, 173-74; centrales of, 22;
and cycle of business, 25; ex
pansion of, 25; foreign invest
ments in, 25; locations of U.S.
garrisons and, 126-28; mechani
zation of, 21-22; strikes in, 49;
and U.S. tariff policy, 19
Taft, Charles, 107, 169
Taft, William Howard, 12, 64, 67,
176; on American agitators, 169;
and attempt to negotiate com
promise, 92-102, 197; on cause
of revolt, 107-8; as civil gover
nor in the Philippines, 10-11;
on Cuban political system, 146;