What led Americans to set their democratic scruples aside and wage a trans- Pacific war of conquest? T
It was against this martial backdrop that the United States confronted the Philippine issue. The ascendant belief that martial endeavors were good for the nation because they vitalized American men made overseas colonies ap- pear desirable not only for their economic and strategic benefits but also for their character-building potential. This assumption was particularly notice- able in the thought of the prominent imperialists Theodore Roosevelt, Albert
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Beveridge, and Henry Cabot Lodge, all of whom regarded manly character as the bedrock of American democracy. . . .