Ch. 6- Anti- Imperialist League

Dear Journal,

The days seem to be getting longer. America is not the same since the Spanish American War, even though the war is over, I feel we are in a worse war now- with ourselves. America has a decision to make, we can either leave the Philippines to Spain, or we can fight a brutal war for it. Therefore, America is splitting, we are splitting into either the anti- imperial or imperialists. We are at this crossroad because we have gotten ourselves into a mess with the Philippines. The imperialists wants to keep the Philippines. The anti-imperialists believe that it would be a immoral war and would end up with the Filipinos not having any constitutional rights. This would mean the Constitution would not work if you are not of the white race and did not live on the American continent. It is also a time when they think that America should not join with other races, as we are already having problems with the African- Americans. The anti- imperialists saw McKinley and Roosevelt as people to make anew of the country, but they cannot do this without corrupting the society in use.

Many, like Mark Twain, thought that America was trying to get the Philippines from Spain to help them, to let them create their own government, not trying to use them to our advantage. Now we are in a mess, America is split into two and I have no idea what we are going to do.Now the Anti-imperialists have Andrew Carnegie as there sponsor. I heard that he tried to buy Philippines for $20 million dollars, and McKinley turned him down, now he is starting to support the anti-imperialists.

Even with all the anti- imperialists, it still was not enough to stop what we are doing because there are so many more imperialists than there are not. The anti- imperialists barely made a problem for the imperialists. Even with all the horrible things we are doing in the Philippines, imperialist stick together and support it 100%.


Until next time...

Cites:
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http://greatimmigrants.carnegie.org/images/1835_ac.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Bridge_of_Binondoc_in_Manila,_early_1800s.jpg

http://www.solpass.org/7ss/Images/war.gif