<P> "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" is a 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Philippine--American War (1899--1902), which invites the U.S. to assume colonial control of that country . The poem was published in The New York Sun on 10 February 1899 . </P> <P> Originally, Kipling wrote the poem for the Diamond Jubilee celebration of Queen Victoria's reign (1837--1901), but it was exchanged for the poem "Recessional", also by Kipling . Later, he rewrote the poem "The White Man's Burden" to address the American colonization of the Philippine Islands, a Pacific Ocean archipelago conquered from Imperial Spain, in the three - month Spanish--American War (1898); the birth of the American Empire . </P>

What was another name for the white mans burden