Their assumed anxiety to stay, is false pretense.

They will be hurt if they do not go home.
The exasperation of the Filipinos toward the church is a phenomenon, and they usually state it with uncandid qualifications of the inadequate definition of the opinions and policy made by General Aguinaldo.

Representations of my representative character as an American journalist, that gave me an importance I do not claim or assume to have, caused the appearance at my rooms, in Manila, of insurgents of high standing and comprehensive information, and of large fortunes in some cases.

I was deeply impressed by their violent radicalism regarding the priests.

At first they made no distinction, but said flatly the priests were the mischiefmakers, the true tyrants, and next to the half-breed Filipinos crossed with Chinese--who are phenomenal accumulators of pecuniary resources--the money-makers, who profited wrongfully by the earnings of others.
And so "the priests must go," they said, and have no choice except that of deportation or execution.