LAD #22: McKinley's War Message

Read President McKinley's War Message - summarize

 

President McKinley's War Message was created as a response to the Cuban revolution against Spain. The Cuban Revolution was a conflict that McKinley had a desperate desire to end.  In his letter to Congress, he talks about his hatred towards this battle, which has been occurring for over half a century. It also required the United States to continuously enforce its neutrality laws, which in turn frustrated and ticked off the citizens.  The revolution has had a vast amount of negative impacts on the United States economy, especially because it impaired trade.  In this message, McKinley influences Congress to go through with ending the war. The two possible ways of doing so included either creating reasonable compromises, or even an promoting a particular side.  President McKinley decided that he would most likely side against Cuba, in an effort to end hostility. However, he revealed that he preferred using a more neutral approach.  He determined it was necessary to first must evaluate the state of rights of life, as well as the rights of property protection, that the Cubans had. He also requests that all hostiles that pose a threat to the United States must be priority to get taken care of.  Because the two nations, Cuba and the United States, are reliant on each other for many different things, it was stated that conflicts, at all costs, needed to be eased. In the end, Congress had the final decision as to either coincide with the requests, or go about other methods of treating these issues.