William H. DAFT

In the middle of the nineteenth century the filibusterer William Walker,
operating on behalf of bankers Morgan and Garrison, invaded Central America
at the head of a band of assassins.

With the obliging support of the U.S.government, Walker robbed, killed, burned, and in successive expeditions proclaimed himself president of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras.

In 1912 President William H. Taft (Mr.Daft) declared:
"The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three
equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the
Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be
ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.”
Taft said that the correct path of justice in U.S. foreign policy "may well be
made to include active intervention to secure for our merchandise and our
capitalists opportunity for profitable investment."

-Eduardo Galeano