The following quote is from Henry Cabot Lodge in 1895 in an article he wrote titled Business World vs. Politicians. How do you think Marti would have responded to this quote? “Our American economy has grown leaps and bounds in the recent past, maintaining the growth is our utmost concern. In the interests of our commerce . . . we should build the Nicaragua canal, and for the protection of that canal and for the sake of our commercial supremacy in the Pacific we should control the Hawaiian islands and maintain our influence in Samoa . . . and when the Nicaraguan canal is built, the island of Cuba . . . will become a necessity. . . . The great nations are rapidly absorbing for their future expansion and their present defense all the waste places of the earth. It is a movement which makes for civilization and the advancement of the race. As one of the great nations of the world the United States must not fall out of the line of march.”