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William McKinley, né le 29 janvier 1843 à Niles et assassiné le 14 septembre 1901 à Buffalo , est un homme d'État et avocat américain, 25e président des États-Unis.

McKinley commence la guerre de Sécession en tant que soldat et la termine avec le grade de major breveté. Après la guerre, il s'installe à Canton dans l'Ohio où il commence une activité de juriste et se marie avec Ida Saxton. En 1876, il est élu à la Chambre des représentants fédérale où il devient spécialiste républicain des droits de douane protectionnistes qui selon lui apporteraient la prospérité. Sa proposition d'augmenter fortement les droits de douane par le McKinley Tariff est très critiquée et la controverse associée au gerrymandering démocrate lui coûtent son siège lors des élections de 1890. Il est élu au poste de gouverneur de l'Ohio en 1891 et en 1893 où il essaie d'équilibrer les intérêts du capital et ceux des travailleurs. Avec l'aide de son proche conseiller Marcus Hanna, il obtient la nomination républicaine pour l'élection présidentielle de 1896 dont l'enjeu principal est la crise économique qui frappe le pays. Il bat son adversaire démocrate, William Jennings Bryan, en défendant une « monnaie saine » et en promettant que des droits de douane élevés restaureraient la prospérité sans forte inflation.

La présidence de McKinley est marquée par une rapide croissance économique. Il défend le Dingley Act de 1897 destiné à protéger les industries américaines de la compétition étrangère et en 1900 il obtient le passage du Gold Standard Act mettant fin au bimétallisme. McKinley essaie de persuader l'Espagne d'accorder l'indépendance à Cuba alors en pleine révolution, mais après l'échec des négociations, il mène les États-Unis dans la guerre hispano-américaine. La victoire américaine est rapide et décisive ; par le traité de Paris de 1898, l'Espagne transfère le contrôle de ses colonies de Porto Rico, Guam et des Philippines aux États-Unis ; Cuba devait devenir indépendant, mais en réalité, il devient un protectorat américain. La république d'Hawaï, alors indépendante, rejoint les États-Unis en 1898 avec le statut de territoire.

McKinley est réélu contre Bryan en 1900. Il est cependant assassiné par un anarchiste en septembre 1901 et son vice-président, Theodore Roosevelt, lui succède. Les historiens considèrent la victoire de McKinley en 1896 comme un tournant de la politique américaine qui marque le début de l'ère progressiste dominée par le Parti républicain. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. janvier 1843 – 14. septembre 1901
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“Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.”

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Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
1900s

“Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of earth.”

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Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
1900s

“I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.”

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McKinley's supposed reaction to the capture of Manila, as quoted in Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0803893477&id=soIn15_8_BEC&pg=PA360&lpg=PA362&dq=isaac+asimov&as_brr=1&sig=N7a-MSVa9fFYuZBxJbosM31-Y7M, pages 360-361.
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“Under free trade the trader is the master and the producer the slave. Protection is but the law of nature, the law of self-preservation, of self-development, of securing the highest and best destiny of the race of man. [It is said] that protection is immoral…. Why, if protection builds up and elevates 63,000,000 [the U. S. population] of people, the influence of those 63,000,000 of people elevates the rest of the world. We cannot take a step in the pathway of progress without benefiting mankind everywhere. Well, they say, "Buy where you can buy the cheapest"…. Of course, that applies to labor as to everything else. Let me give you a maxim that is a thousand times better than that, and it is the protection maxim: "Buy where you can pay the easiest."”

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And that spot of earth is where labor wins its highest rewards.
Speech in Boston, MA (Oct. 4, 1892) William McKinley Papers, Library of Congress.

“that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died.”

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Attributed by James F. Rusling "Interview with President McKinley" The Christian Advocate (22 January 1903), as remarks from a meeting with clergymen on 21 November 1899. The overtly religious part is disputed in Lewis Gould (1980) The Presidency of William McKinley.

“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.”

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First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1897).
1890s

“Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.”

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First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1897).
1890s

“that we not leave them to themselves — they are unfit for self-government — and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's wars; and”

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“We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.”

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Remark to personal secretary George Cortelyou (1898).
1890s

“When I next realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps I confess I did not know what to do with them … And one night late it came to me this way…:”

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1900s

“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”

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Letter (December 21, 1898).
1890s

“Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.”

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Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
1900s

“The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.”

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Quoted from July 12, 1900, on 1900 US campaign poster, of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt.
1900s

“Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.”

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Speech delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (September 5, 1901).
1900s

“that we could not turn them over to France and Germany-our commercial rivals in the Orient — that would be bad business and discreditable”

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“When the history of his time is written he will stand forth as the great figure in the years which have been so crowded with events. He gained the entire confidence of the nation by his patriotism, wisdom and ability, just as he won its love by his kindness and goodness to all men.”

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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. The Authentic Life of President McKinley, page 413.

“I have been deeply shocked by this crime. President McKinley was not a ruler of exclusive or aristocratic tendencies. He was a good friend of the people, a genuine democrat in the best sense of the word. With regard to Mexico, President McKinley had ever evidenced such friendly sentiments that his death will be mourned in this country hardly less keenly than in the United States.”

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President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz. The Authentic Life of President McKinley, page 398.

“I learn with deep pain that his Excellency Mr. McKinley has succumbed to the deplorable attempt on his life. I sympathize with you with all my heart in this calamity which thus strikes at your dearest affections and which bereaves the great American nation of a President so justly respected and loved.”

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President of France Émile Loubet telegraph to Mrs. McKinley. The Authentic Life of President McKinley, page 398.

“The ocean is not wide enough to hold all the sympathy that is streaming from the Old World to the New.”

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Austrian response to McKinley's death by Vienna newspaper Neues Wiener Tageblatt. The Authentic Life of President McKinley, page 397.

“I am deeply affected by the news of the untimely death of President McKinley. I hasten to express the deepest and most heartfelt sympathy of the German people to the great American nation. Germany mourns with American for her noble son, who lost his life while he was fulfilling his duty to his country and people.”

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William II, German Emperor. The Authentic Life of President McKinley, page 396.

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