In contrast to the anti-imperialistic views of Sumner, Albert Beveridge supported the expansion on America to other countries in his speech “The March of the Flag” (1898). Beveridge, was born into an imperialist family on October 6, 1862 in Highland County, Ohio. He was the republican senator from 1899 to 1911, and supported Theodore Roosevelt’s policies. He helped organize the Progressive Party in 1912, which lead to the election of Roosevelt. Along with Roosevelt, Beveridge supported America conquering such foreign lands as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. His reasoning for supporting imperialism were to help the growing industries and businesses have a larger market and land to create industries. Getting more land would mean more “opportunity for all the glorious young manhood of the republic”. The fact that many of the places in debate were not contiguous did not matter to Beveridge, “Our nave will make them contiguous”. In 1899, the Treaty of Paris allowed America to take the Philippines, which angered the people. As said by Senator George F. Hoar, a fellow imperialist, “Three cheers for the flag! Who will dare to haul it down?”, which shows the large egos the imperialist had for America. This speech by Beveridge was written primarily for imperialist who supported his cause. He wanted to spread the word of expansion, and eventually expand to foreign nations. There is evidence of bias, however, in his speech toward foreign nations. He states “government of law [will] replace the double reign of anarchy and tyranny!”. He states that all foreign nations are corrupt in the sense that they do not have a democrac

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