History Quiz / Quotations, Slogans, Mottoes: 1897- 1900

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1897: Naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan
in his book, The Interest of America in Sea Power,
arguing against isolationism

1898: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in her book
Women and Economics, arguing that women
performing housework 'enables men to produce
more wealth than they otherwise could.'

1898: Slogan promoted by William Randolph Hearst's Journal, helping to ignite the Spanish-American War.

1898: Commodore George Dewey's words to the commander
of his flagship Olympia in the Battle of Manila Bay.

1898: Representative Bob Gibson in
a passionate appeal to annex Hawaii.

1898: Captain John W. Philip after destroying the Spanish ships Vizcaya and Colón at Santiago harbor in Cuba.

1898: Secretary of State John Hay to Theodore Roosevelt
near the end of the Spanish-American War.

1899: President McKinley after the US gained
possession of the Philippines for $20 million.

1899: Refers to an article by Elbert Hubbard about a
mission of intelligence officer Lt. Major Andrew S. Owen;
meaning to be resourceful and brave in carrying
out an assigned task without fanfare.

1899: Then New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt
insisting that it is better to have a life checkered with
failure, then to never 'dare to do mighty things.'

1899: The Literary Digest on the 'horseless carriage.'
(4000 were manufactured in 1900, 190,000 10 years later.
Maybe they should stick to predicting presidential elections!)

1899: Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who also said, 'frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me...
You have got to show me.'

1883 - 1929: Inscription on the over 2,500
libraries built by Andrew Carnegie.

1899: Policy towards China, promoted
by US Secretary of State John Hay.

1899: English poet Rudyard Kipling's poem, subtitled,
The United States and the Philippine Islands,
used to promote American imperialism.

1900: Title of a song composed by James Weldon
Johnson to celebrate Lincoln's birthday;
became known as the 'Negro National Anthem.'

1900: Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge on
the divine mission of America to bring civilization
to the Orient, especially the Philippines.

1900: Popular song among US army troops fighting
Emilio Aguinaldo's guerrilla resistance, which called
for civilizing the Filipinos with a Krag (rifle) so
they could return home; authorship unknown.