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Write a yellow journalism about imperialism during the year 1898
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HEADLINE: THE EAGLE SOARS! AMERICA GRABS HER GLOBE — EMPIRES BOW OR BREAK!
New York — The hour has struck! From Manila's burning guns to Havana's smoking ruins, the thunder of our cannon and the flash of our standards have announced to the world that the Republic has ceased to be a sleep-walker and awakens as a mighty Power, determined, inexorable, and glorious!
Last spring the cry for justice — for American honor outraged by Spain's perfidy — swept across this nation like a prairie-fire. Our fleets, under bold commanders whose names will be wrapped in laurel, steamed into distant seas and shattered the rusty chains of a decaying empire. Dewey, with the coolness of a veteran and the fury of a patriot, blew away the Spanish squadron in Manila Bay in a fashion that will make tyrants tremble and lovers of liberty rejoice! The Stars and Stripes wave now where they never waved before — in the Orient, in the Antilles, on islands that for centuries were the spoiled toys of weak kings and vicious priests.
We did not seek conquest in the mean spirit of old-world despots — no! We marched not as plunderers but as liberators, to unshackle the oppressed, to spread the great Anglo-Saxon blessings of law, education, and honest trade. Yet, make no mistake: when the world yields a place for the brave man it will be seized; when flags fall short, the strong fill the breach. Providence itself points to the Pacific and whispers: The American eagle must take its place upon the world’s map!
Hearken to the scene! The tropical islands that once harbored pirates and stayed the progress of commerce now offer harbors for our steamers and markets for our goods. Consider the sugar groves of Cuba, the harbor of Puerto Rico, the far-flung anchorage of Guam — jewels suddenly within our reach and our duty. The Filipinos, swept by fierce leaders and dreams of independence, stand dazed before this new order; some hail their liberators, some plot, but all recognize that a mighty nation has planted its standard where it will not be plucked down!
Let those weary murmurers at home — the timid men who hug constitutions as excuses to do nothing — remember that nations are not sustained by indolent sentiment but by iron will. Empire is not a dirty phrase; it is the expression of national destiny. It is the remedy for European jealousy and the check upon old tyrannies that would devour weak peoples. If the choice be between anarchy under feeble rulers and the firm hand of an American magistracy, the sensible citizen of republican blood will pick the latter!
Our press, fired with the sense of duty, has told the plain truth in plain words! The people have answered the clarion call; merchant men load their ships; young fellows leave plow and forge to shoulder guns; men in office who dally with cowardice will find the ballots and the bayonet much more convincing than their timid whispers.
Across the ocean the map is changing. Spain, that long-sick lion, has been smitten and humbled. Her colonies are slipping like rotten fruit from her grasp. Will she cling like a dying spider or will she accept this new distribution of power? Let her pick her choice. But America — America is strong, and the strong must and will lead.
Be not fooled by sentimentality! The world is a theatre of action, not of idle sermons. The United States has earned and accepted its charge. Our ships have crossed oceans; our merchants will fill ports; our schools will teach strange tongues to read the language of progress. The sun never sets on opportunity — and the American sun will make the night in foreign parts a little less dark.
Rally, then! Let every true man and woman declare: We are a people not of cowards but of conquerors of ignorance, champions of law, and champions of the oppressed — even when the path to their deliverance demands iron. The trumpet has sounded! The Eagle has soared! Sit up, ye cities and ye farmsteads, and hear the roll of destiny — America has taken her place among the nations, to rule, to redeem, to remake the world in the image of liberty and enterprise!
END OF SPECIAL EDITION — Read the next dispatch for accounts of the capture of new ports and the speeches of our triumphant commanders!
New York — The hour has struck! From Manila's burning guns to Havana's smoking ruins, the thunder of our cannon and the flash of our standards have announced to the world that the Republic has ceased to be a sleep-walker and awakens as a mighty Power, determined, inexorable, and glorious!
Last spring the cry for justice — for American honor outraged by Spain's perfidy — swept across this nation like a prairie-fire. Our fleets, under bold commanders whose names will be wrapped in laurel, steamed into distant seas and shattered the rusty chains of a decaying empire. Dewey, with the coolness of a veteran and the fury of a patriot, blew away the Spanish squadron in Manila Bay in a fashion that will make tyrants tremble and lovers of liberty rejoice! The Stars and Stripes wave now where they never waved before — in the Orient, in the Antilles, on islands that for centuries were the spoiled toys of weak kings and vicious priests.
We did not seek conquest in the mean spirit of old-world despots — no! We marched not as plunderers but as liberators, to unshackle the oppressed, to spread the great Anglo-Saxon blessings of law, education, and honest trade. Yet, make no mistake: when the world yields a place for the brave man it will be seized; when flags fall short, the strong fill the breach. Providence itself points to the Pacific and whispers: The American eagle must take its place upon the world’s map!
Hearken to the scene! The tropical islands that once harbored pirates and stayed the progress of commerce now offer harbors for our steamers and markets for our goods. Consider the sugar groves of Cuba, the harbor of Puerto Rico, the far-flung anchorage of Guam — jewels suddenly within our reach and our duty. The Filipinos, swept by fierce leaders and dreams of independence, stand dazed before this new order; some hail their liberators, some plot, but all recognize that a mighty nation has planted its standard where it will not be plucked down!
Let those weary murmurers at home — the timid men who hug constitutions as excuses to do nothing — remember that nations are not sustained by indolent sentiment but by iron will. Empire is not a dirty phrase; it is the expression of national destiny. It is the remedy for European jealousy and the check upon old tyrannies that would devour weak peoples. If the choice be between anarchy under feeble rulers and the firm hand of an American magistracy, the sensible citizen of republican blood will pick the latter!
Our press, fired with the sense of duty, has told the plain truth in plain words! The people have answered the clarion call; merchant men load their ships; young fellows leave plow and forge to shoulder guns; men in office who dally with cowardice will find the ballots and the bayonet much more convincing than their timid whispers.
Across the ocean the map is changing. Spain, that long-sick lion, has been smitten and humbled. Her colonies are slipping like rotten fruit from her grasp. Will she cling like a dying spider or will she accept this new distribution of power? Let her pick her choice. But America — America is strong, and the strong must and will lead.
Be not fooled by sentimentality! The world is a theatre of action, not of idle sermons. The United States has earned and accepted its charge. Our ships have crossed oceans; our merchants will fill ports; our schools will teach strange tongues to read the language of progress. The sun never sets on opportunity — and the American sun will make the night in foreign parts a little less dark.
Rally, then! Let every true man and woman declare: We are a people not of cowards but of conquerors of ignorance, champions of law, and champions of the oppressed — even when the path to their deliverance demands iron. The trumpet has sounded! The Eagle has soared! Sit up, ye cities and ye farmsteads, and hear the roll of destiny — America has taken her place among the nations, to rule, to redeem, to remake the world in the image of liberty and enterprise!
END OF SPECIAL EDITION — Read the next dispatch for accounts of the capture of new ports and the speeches of our triumphant commanders!
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