LAD # 22

Many people wanted to go to war in Cuba who desperately wanted freedom Spain. The yellow journalists would make up headlines whether they were true or not to play up sympathy. One such occasion that caused much havoc was the blame on the sinking of the USS Maine. Basically McKinley goes on about how he supports the war and that it had been dragging out for three years. The atrocities that they found in Cuba were inconceivable. Because of this it was directly affecting American citizens and the baseline, the economy. McKinley urges that we should either become neutral or commit fully to the war with more troops. He ends with the intolerable act of the Maine being blown up, just another reason to stop the madness.