hate for the Friars ...
Apparently the Catholic Friars, more than rule by Spain, was their chief hate ... and apparently the Catholic Friars did things to the people to earn their hate.
Well sometimes instead of frying a Friar, you slow roast.
"128 THE PHILIPPINES AND THE FAR EAST.
friars. Another was saturated with kerosene oil and set
on fire, and a third was bathed in oil and roasted over a
slow fire on a bamboo pole run through the length of his
body. I do not mention these instances of atrocities committed
against friars because I approve or even condone
them. They are facts, and they tell beyond all hope of
successful refutation of the terrible hatred borne the friars
by Filipino people as a whole. What was done to these
friars would have been done to all if they could have been
seized in the early days of the insurrection. There seems
to be no sufficient reason for thinking that Aguinaldo
ordered these murders, or sympathized with them. He
treated such friars and women as fell into the hands of
troops under his immediate control with a degree of
humanity. "
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