There is also the opinion that those who bought what Hearst had to sell and acted on this as a government was indeed the case of the weakness of the government. You want to blame wealth for all the ails in America. Yes, indeed, Hearst did set up the conditions of the Maine but it was the reaction that took us to war. Right or Wrong was exposed at the time and yet it was all the other newspapers that folded leaving the Hearst papers running for over a century. My daughter just drove up and we are going to the movies.
