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Government and Mercantile Liberties

The struggle for liberty has always been about the freedoms we hold dear in the foundation of trade, religion, and government. In times of war many things we take for granted in a society, such as the liberty to voice our opinion concerning war, or even the music we listen to can be construed as propaganda. James Madison's belief "... That all power is originally vested in and consequently derived from the people..." seemed to fall on deaf ears at the start of World War I as the need to control the shipping lanes of the world invoked the frightening force of rage without wisdom.

In the years of the First World War, the world was getting smaller as ships began to ply the seaports of the world. The road to expansionism motivated our nation on a course that involved seaports in the Philippines, investments in the railroads of China, and the control of the Panama Canal. Immigrants from around the world were encouraged to come to America from places such as China, Japan, and Germany to work the fields, factories and coal mines of our country. This encouragement changed to repression as the burgeoning need for their services were no longer needed. The expanding western frontier was said to be complete. Factories and coal mines became the new mandate of President Wilsons plan to win the hearts of a diversified America. The hope of controlling the markets of the world pitted the globe against an aggressor known as Germany. President Wilson following enacted laws made German Americans the scapegoats for those who were fearful or looking for any excuse to rid them of their competition.

The American organization of President Wilson's plan consisted of the Committee on Public information. "...The work of demonizing various aspects of Germany through pictures and cartoons became the job of president Wilson's new misinformation agency.Headed by journalist George Creel, the Committee on Public Information acted as a propaganda agency.." (Mary Buggie-Hunt,2006 , AMERICA, WAR, AND THE FAILED PEACE). The threat of Germans emerging militaristic hunger soon turned our government to the growing realization that the Monroe Doctrine may no longer be valid (Divine, 2002, p. 780). President Wilson developed various agencies that enforced his takeover of the civil rights in America. The war industries Board(WIB ) was one of the most powerful of the new agencies invented by president Wilson. It was headed by Bernard M. Baruch, a wall

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