Goes back MUCH further than that.  Remember the USS Main:

“…we could not leave (the Filipinos) to themselves— they were unfit for self-government—and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s was… there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all… to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died.”

“Incidental to our tenure in the Philippines is the commercial opportunity to which American statesmanship cannot be indifferent.”

William McKinley--25th President