The U.S. Navy Is the Big Player in Town, in the World

The us. was ramping up to to intervene in cuba, one senator pulled out all the stops to try to get everybody on board with this intervention. Senator john thurston said it was his wife's dying wish to free cuba and its people. He added that war with spain would increase the business and the earnings of every american railroad. It would stimulate every branch of industry and domestic commerce. And greatly increase the demand for American labor.