El Paso Bureau of Information Quotes
Commerce is the weapon …., the all powerful arm with which we have entered in earnest, with every prospect of success, upon our conquest of Mexico.
There were many Americans and Mexicans who believed that the conquest of all of Mexico was well under way, our having earlier obtained Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, California, and Arizona.
El Paso Bureau of Information, c. 1896, John H. McNeely Papers, University of Texas at El Paso
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While Wilson is often thought of a humanist and a man committed to World peace and national rights of independence, he was also a committed economic imperialist. See {585454} for another example.
The practice became extensively used and the phrase along with it during the William Howard Taft administration where the media popularized it.
The industrial revolution was also creating an entirely new form and structure for international economics.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor
The change in economics was causing a change in the English class system. However, a significant of the English upper classes resisted this class mobility and class mobility has never been as fluid as it was in America, Canada, and Australia. See Defoe {616015} for a similar view.
This is an incredibly prescient quotation. Dewey saw globalization starting before most realized the change. He wrote this in 1916. Almost a century later, we live with the results of the process that he described.
The railroads were nationalized for WWI and he ran them all as a government official
