LAD #22 McKinley's War Message

McKinley starts out focusing on the conflict between Cuba and Spain. He claims that American needed to intervene for many reasons but the most important that war would hurt American businesses in Cuba. McKinley's speech was the min cause of the Spanish American War. In his speech to Congress he states that the conflicts had spread to America and were hurting businesses and scaring people. He continues to say that he believes there are many ways to resolve this issue but without intervention from America. He leaves it up to Congress to decide but mentions a possible negotiator idea. McKinley's had four many reasons to go to war with Cuba. They were, the conflict is taking place right outside American territory, citizens of Cuba deserve peace, war harmed American trade, a mysterious tragedy took place within the region of the war. Continuing on with his speech he asks Congress to let him use force to cease the are and set up a government after saying that the war needed to be stopped. McKinley ends his speech by saying he hopes that there will be a solution but its up to Congress now.