Can you please explain what this means? :))?

Question

"Should our power by any fatality be withdrawn, the commission believe that the government of the Philippines would speedily lapse into anarchy, which would excuse, if it did not necessitate, the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 Philippine commonwealth at all conceivable. And the indispensable need from the Filipino point of view of maintaining American sovereignty over the archipelago is recognized by all intelligent Filipinos and even by those insurgents who desire an American protectorate. The latter, it is true, would take the revenues and leave us the responsibilities. Nevertheless, they recognize the indubitable fact that the Filipinos cannot stand alone. Thus the welfare of the Filipinos coincides with the dictates of national honour in forbidding our abandonment of the archipelago. We cannot from any point of view escape the responsibilities of government which our sovereignty entails; and the commission is strongly persuaded that the performance of our national duty will prove the greatest blessing to the peoples of the Philippine Islands."

Answer 1

It is essentially bombastic, paternalistic, and self-righteous blather rationalizing the U.S. occupation of the Philippines beginning in 1898 and lasting until 1946.  This sort of rhetoric is typical of arrogant and megalomaniacal leaders who think that only they and their country have the solution to all the world's ill and that they can do no wrong.  It's sort of reminiscent of some of the politicos playing their parts on the world stage from Washington today, isn't it?  

Here's a link to a website about the U.S. occupation of the Philippines.  To find more, just google the term "U.S. occupation of the Philippines," or "American-Filipino War."

http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/...