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When cuba was at war America tried to stay neutral, however in march 1898 the US asked spain to stop fighting and make peace with cuba. On April 11, Mckinley told the people that the war needed to end in cuba. He began by saying that the war was among the many in the country against their oppressor of spain, and that the US tried to stay out of it, but the nature of Sapin made us feel for the cubans. The US trade took a bad turn due to the war, and alot of capital was lost. Becasue neither spain or the cubans had definitively won, the war was going to end only if somebody gave up. Mckinley sated he could either make a rational compromise between the two, or help one part win. McKinley's plan was each side needed to end the barbarities, killing, starving, and torture, the US people there would be helped, and that the US would have to intervene if its trade were hurt even worse, and lastly they would consider a semi-war against spain. Since "maine" had already been sunk, it gave the US the decision to go against cuba. So Mckinley told congress to let the Us go in and restore the gov. and send supplies to citizens