21. Filipino Insurrection 1899- 1902 (1913) Over 1 million Filipino’s dead, 4,000 Americans “ avoid any entangling alliance with the insurgents” "Should our power be withdrawn, the government would speedily lapse into anarchy, which would excuse, if it did not necessitate, the intervention of other powers and the eventual division of the islands among them. Only through American occupation, therefore, is the idea of a free, self-governing, and united commonwealth at all conceivable.