Comparing Carnegie And Beveridge's The March Of The Flag

The United States of America was torn in the year of 1898 along with two of its most influential citizens. In the late 1800s and early 1900s the United States started to become more involved in foreign affairs and the outside world. One of the ways the United States began getting more involved was through imperialism. The thought of imperialism made many people around the United States want to voice their opinions on what America should do. Two of the people who had voiced their opinion were Andrew Carnegie and Albert Beveridge. Andrew Carnegie wrote Distant Possessions with his thoughts on imperialism and Albert Beveridge wrote The March of the Flag. The two disagreed on what the United States should do with foreign countries such as the Philippines;

would have to govern them as dependant since they cannot self-govern, while Beveridge believed they would benefit the U.S. economy and trade. Carnegie did not want to maintain the Philippines as a colony because the U.S. would then have to be armed and ready to fight and protect the Philippines from foreign invasion, however once again Beveridge believed the U.S. should do the opposite of what Carnegie had said, and wants to maintain colonies abroad. Albert Beveridge and Andrew Carnegie had different opinions about what the United States should do when it came to imperializing other nations; Beveridge believed that the United States should join other imperialistic nations and imperialize smaller nations, while Carnegie believed the United States should not imperialize.

The time period during this conflict of ideas between Carnegie and Beveridge happened right as when the

An immigrant from Scotland who turned into an American millionaire. Adjusted in 2014s economy, Carnegie would have been worth three-hundred and seventy-two billion dollars. Carnegie was extremely rich due to his ownership and monopoly he had on American steel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This made Carnegie someone who worried about the U.S. economy quite often, leading him to write his essay about the Philippines. Carnegie wrote Distant Possessions after the United States had fought in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American war with the knowledge that America was more than likely going to decide what the fate of the Philippines was going to be. Andrew Carnegie wanted nothing to do with the Philippines as an American colony. Carnegie was very worried about what the Philippines would do to the U.S. economy as he believed they would be a burden, “they will yield us nothing, and probably be a source of annual expense.” Carnegie says this because the main goal of imperialism is to produce more goods, however he also mentions that the U.S. was already number one in world exports and questions why the U.S. would need distant possessions. They wouldn’t create anything new for the United States and would only need protection from foreign invasion and also U.S. government would have to govern them as