Note 51 — Chapter VII · Insurgent Rule in the Visayas and Elsewhere

The kind of independent “government” these men established is the kind that they would again establish if they had the chance,51 but among the persons to be tortured and murdered would now be those Americans who failed to escape seasonably. I do not mean to say that such a state of affairs would come about immediately, but it would certainly arise within a comparatively short time. Sooner yet “the united Filipino people” would split up on old tribal lines, and fly at each other’s throats.