Only a few studies have evaluated the movement throughout its full existence, and these are typically descriptive accounts rather than analytical. John Rollins, “The Anti-Imperialists and Twentieth Century American Foreign Policy,” Studies on the Left 1 (1962): 9–24. William Appleman Williams, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1959), 209 Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1963), 412 This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.įred Harvey Harrington, “The Anti-Imperialist Movement in the United States, 1898–1900,” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 22, no. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. It is of age and it can do what it pleases it can spurn the traditions of the past it can repudiate the principles upon which the nation rests it can employ force instead of reason it can substitute might for right it can conquer weaker people it can exploit their lands, appropriate their property and kill their people but it cannot repeal the moral law or escape the punishment decreed for the violation of human rights.

He can stamp failure upon his life and make his very existence a curse to his fellow men and he can bring his father and mother in sorrow to the grave but he cannot annul the sentence, “The wages of sin is death.” And so with the nation.

He can disregard the teachings of his parents he can trample upon all that he has been taught to consider sacred he can disobey the laws of the state, the laws of society and the laws of God. The young man upon reaching his majority can do what he pleases.

Confronting Imperialism by Jim Zwick