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Excerpt from The Commercial Side of Territorial Expansion: Speech of Hon. Wm; M'. Howard, of Georgia, in the House of Respresentatives The decision to go to war with Spain was suddenly made, not withstanding the long-continued existence of the causes which we proclaimed as justifying hostilities, and the public mind was as little prepared for the ready comprehension of the consequences of victory as was our Government for the conflict; and it was, therefore, but natural that the hysteria of our exultation should be prolonged by mysticism on the part of those who conceived that the golden opportunity was present to convert a war begun for humanity into one of conquest for commercial gain. The change of purpose was as radical as it was sudden, and involved our plighted faith to the world and with each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.