Below is an extract from Tragedy and Hope regarding Cuba which also implicates the US as an Imperial Power. Now Quigley is an apologist for the establishment according to Skousen if I remember "The Naked Capitalist", or was it "The Naked Communist?" The agrarian discontent, the growth of monopolies, the oppression of labor, and the excesses of Wall Street financiers made the country (USA) very restless in the period 1890 - 1900. All this could have been alleviated merely by increasing the supply of money sufficiently to raise prices somewhat, but the financiers in this period, just as thirty years later, were determined to defend the gold standard no matter what happened. In looking about for some issue which would distract public discontent from domestic economic issues, what better solution than a crisis in foreign affairs? Cleveland had stumbled upon this alternative, more or less accidentally, in 1895 when he stirred up a controversy with Great Britain over Venezuela. The great opportunity came with the Cuban revolt against Spain in 1895. While the "yellow press," led by William Randolph Hearst, roused public opinion, Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt plotted how they could best get the United States into the fracas. They got the excuse they needed when the American battleship Maine was sunk by a mysterious explosion in Havana harbor in February 1898. In two months the United States declared war on Spain to fight for Cuban independence. The resulting victory revealed the United States as a world naval power, established it as an imperialist power with possession of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, whetted some appetites for imperialist glory, and covered the transition from the long drawn age of semi depression to a new period of prosperity. This new period of prosperity was spurred to some extent by the increased demand for industrial products arising from the war, but even more by the new period of rising prices associated with considerable increase in the world production of gold from South Africa and Alaska after 1895 Dr Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, A History of the World in Our Time, 1966, second printing 1974.
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