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Millegan Stews
The First Casualty
By Kris Millegan
9/17/01
The ends justifies the means . . .
Everything is quiet here. There is no trouble. There will be no war. I wish
to return.
�Fredric Remington
You furnish the pictures. I will furnish the war.
�William Randolph Hearst - 1897,
This exchange was first reported by Hearst correspondent James Creelman in
his 1901 memoir, On The Great Highway. He was quite proud of his boss and the
methods used to whip-up war hysteria.
�The time has not come when all the machinery employed by the American press
in behalf of Cuba can be laid bare to the public. . . . Things which cannot
be referred to even now were attempted.
. . . If the war against Spain is justified in the eyes of history [and
Creelman clearly thought it would be], then �yellow journalism� deserves its
place among the most useful instrumentalities of civilization. It may be
guilty of giving the world a lop-sided view of events by exaggerating the
importance of a few things and ignoring others, it may offend the eye by
typographical violence, it may sometimes proclaim its own deeds too loudly;
but it never deserted the cause of the poor and downtrodden.�
Reporters, including novelist Stephen Crane and a young Winston Churchill,
had been writing dispatches from Cuba, for years. Some reporters did their
job, others completely fabricated tales from the safety of their hotel bars.
There were several other groups also �looking� into the �Cuban Question.�
Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright took over the Office of Naval
Intelligence in April 1896. One of his first acts was to order a strategic
study of the Spanish-American situation, �War with Spain, 1896, General
considerations of the War, the results desired and the Consequent Kind of
Operations to be Undertaken.� The report outlined quick action towards the
Philippines and to have superior forces in the Caribbean for the action of a
naval blockade of Cuba.
Wainwright most vocal and helpful supporter was Teddy Roosevelt, Asst
Secretary of the Navy, who �assured growing ONI influence . . .in the
incoming administration of William McKinley.�
Roosevelt at the annual Gridiron Dinner, just before the Spanish-American War
said, �We will have this war . . . in spite of the timidity of the commercial
classes.�
In November of 1897, Lt Commander Wainwright was transferred to the USS Maine
. January of 1898 President McKinley ordered the USS Maine to Cuba. On
February 15 the USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor killing 260 American
sailors which then put into play the very war planning that Wainwright had
earlier overseen.
�The Maine disaster mobilized naval intelligence. Between the sinking in
February and the declarations of war in April, ONI undertook extensive and
secret measures for war preparations against Spain. Once again Roosevelt
coordinated activity. �
�The first casualty when war comes is truth."
� Senator Hiram Johnson
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