Honors History Writing #2

Honors History writing 2#

America is currently experiencing another terrible recession. Unemployment has soared. The economy is causing instability and blame is being placed on our president, Grover Cleveland. Economists are referring to it as the Panic of 1893. The most essential question that we must ask ourselves is, whether the answer to this economic downfall will be added to each of the two candidate’s plates? Will it affect the day-to-day well-being of the livelihood of American citizens? What will our upcoming 25th president do to solve these issues? Where is our man of great ideologies who is able to come to rapid conclusions on ending the insanity of our economic downfall? People are leaning towards William McKinley for these answers. William McKinley looks like the perfect choice.

A former governor of Ohio, William McKinley who is currently running for the position of President of the United States in a highly anticipated election orginated the McKinley Tariff of 1890. William McKinley has pledged an oath to help end the recession by imposing this tariff. McKinley advocates a heavy tariff on goods and commodities being imported into the United States. The tariff has helped American businesses sell their goods to American consumers at a fair price. McKinley states that he wants to eliminate the thought of purchasing certain materials for less overseas as this will only hurt the American economy. His initial goal is extending his hand of friendship to the president of Carnegie Steel Mill and other companies to achieve this goal. “We need to increase business in our companies… buying for cheap prices overseas has come to a halt and does not help the American economy”, says McKinley, being questioned by reporters, yesterday morning. Foreign producers operating factories overseas are required to pay a 48.4% tariff to ship their products into the country for sale. Cheap material will no longer be appealing to American consumers. U.S businesses are now able to compete aggressively with foreign made goods. As a result of the Tariff, American companies have been doing well so far and have gained prosperity. This prosperity has translated into more workers being hired by U.S companies. However, the tariff has brought new troubles for farmers in rural areas. McKinley is also backing the idea of maintaining the gold standard because he feels if we resort to silver, inflation will have a negative effect on the economy.

McKinley is a proponent of a strong American military. To that end, he wishes to annex the two independent kingdoms of Hawaii and the Philippines. Mr. McKinley also desires to expand American military might into Guam, Puerto Rica and Cuba. “I advocate this more than anything else… that the key ingredient to strengthening our naval forces is to establish a secure military base on Hawaii” declared, William McKinley, at a press conference in the urban area of Ohio. President Cleveland frowned upon McKinley’s policies. McKinley thought that it was in the best interest of the country. Cleveland did not realize that European nations like Britain would gladly annex small primitive places like Hawaii for their own benefit. McKinley strongly believes that American superiority in the Pacific is greatly dependent on a naval base located in Hawaii.

Laborers see McKinley as a supporter who respectfully promotes cultural diversity. In the eyes of McKinley, company workers are free to preserve their ethnic identities in America. “Before I thought I was going to be ostracized from conversations regarding my religion and ethnic values… I feel more comfortable to work alongside my American friends” said an immigrant laborer. “Immigrants don’t have to be secretive about their immigrant heritage” said one of the workers, operating an industrialized machine for producing steel for the company. Andrew Carnegie of American steel, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan have contributed heavily to McKinley’s campaign to support American businesses. Campaign manager, Mark Hanna, has journeyed across the states of America, recruiting voters and sending out invitations to accompany him back to Canton, Ohio, where William McKinley gives his speeches from his front porch. In the meantime, his opponent, William Jennings Bryan, has been traveling by train across America campaigning in the rural areas in the mid west, west and the south. A large German American voting block supports McKinley. Several skilled factory workers, middle class, railroad workers and large scale farmers are behind him.

American prosperity and future well-being depend on a charismatic candidate like William McKinley. His vast experience as a governor of Ohio and a United States senator gives him the unique ability to fulfill the demands of the Presidency. A distinguished veteran of the Civil War, McKinley has firsthand knowledge of the perils of conflict. His hope is that through a strong economy, America can become the great nation it was meant to be.