During the fair, there was a lot of propaganda to show democracy, capitalism, and upper middle class American culture. At the fair there were many exhibits from other countries without any evidence of technical progress, measured according to our Western ideals, which made them seem less civilized, but inferior. The 1904 World's Fair was used by the government to influence public opinion in support of current American foreign policy issues. Imperialism and colonization of Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands. Prove that the United States needed to teach them how to be civilized. In an article from the August 25, 1904 issue of the Monroe City Democrat, the Philippine Exposition is praised and recommended “to the student of ethnology, economics or politics, it is of paramount importance, to the average visitor seeking simply novelty and sensation, has no equal at the Fair. To the businessman