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 * //__Andrew Carnegie.__//

//Occupation://** I am a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist. I’m one of the famous leaders of industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I built Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Steel Company, which was merged by a couple of another companies to create U.S. Steel. I also found Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. I also established many libraries, schools, and universities in America, the UK and other countries. I’m building the further wealth as a bond salesman raising money for American enterprise in Europe.

//**Position on Issue:**// Like anti-imperialist I’m against the annexing. I don’t want to expend. I only want to improve our country, not to expend my steel industry overseas. I’m trying to arrange for independence for the Philippines. I personally want to offer $20 million USD to the Philippines so that the Filipino people could buy their independence from the United States. I found an anti-imperialist league because of this issue that included some of my good friends and important political leaders of the country Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

//**Reasons for interest:**// It’s hard for me to believe that the United States would be best served by withdrawing quickly from Philippine Islands. As a manufacture I have learned that the trade did not follow the flag and colonies did not mean markets. "Possession of colonies or dependencies is not necessary for trade reasons." What I think is that the annexation of the Philippines would weaken the economy of the United States. The nations of Europe are already spending millions to stay abreast of one another in a feverish, escalating, and increasingly threatening race for foreign colonies. "If we are to compete with other nations for foreign possessions, we must have a navy like theirs." France has 51 battleship, Britain 80, the Americans has only 4...That’s why I, directly against my own interest as chief stockholder of the nation’s leading manufacturer of steel plate and armor, argued that money spent on the military would come out of the funds needed for internal improvements in the U.S.: a Nicaragua Canal, new and improve ports, harbors, canals, and railways. I think that to be more powerful at home is the surest way to be powerful abroad. And the way to enhanced power and prosperity at home was through investment in internal improvements. I also want to mention the moral side of this issue. "Is it possible that the Republic is to be placed in the position of the suppressor of the Philippine struggle for independence...Are we to practice independence and preach subordination, to teach rebellion in your books, yet to stamp it out swords?..." It was so hard for us to establish the secure foundations Triumphant Democracy...government of the people, for the people, and by the people. So is it really the rule of the foreigner over people now? And it’s not right if Philippines will become the first victims of Americans, whose proudest boast is that they conquered independence for themselves.

//**Refrences:**// People who were involved into an Anti-imperialist league: __Samuel Clemens__ (Mark Twain), author, satirist, lecturer __Grover Cleveland,__ former President of the United States (1885-89, 1893-97), __Bourbon Democrat John Dewey__, philosopher, psychologist, educational reformer __Finley Peter Dunne__, columnist, author, humorist __Edwin Lawrence Godkin__, co-founder and editor of The Nation (1865-99), publicist, writer > > __Samuel Gompers,__ labor leader, founder and president of the American Federation of Labor (1886-1924) __William Dean Howells,__ realist author, literary critic, editor __William James,__ psychologist, philosopher, writer __David Starr Jordan__, ichthyologist, peace activist, university president __Josephine Shaw Lowell,__ progressive reformer, founder of the New York Consumers League > > __Edgar Lee Masters,__ poet, dramatist, author __William Vaughn Moody,__ professor, poet, literary figure __Carl Schurz,__ German revolutionary, retired brigadier general, former U.S. Interior Secretary (1877-81) __Moorfield Storey,__ lawyer, former president of the American Bar Association (1896-97), first president of the NAACP (1909-15) __William Graham Sumner,__ sociologist, classical economist, author __Oswald Garrison Villard__, journalist, classical liberal activist, later member of the America First Committee > > //**Work Cited:**// > > [] > > [] > > [] []
 * __George S. Boutwell__, politician, author, former U.S. Treasury Secretary (1869-73)