The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-24
REPLIES TO FUNSTON.
Archbishop ChappelIe Comes to De-
fence of the Friars.

Washington, October 24-Archbishop
| Chappelle, of New Orleans, apostolic
delegate to Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines, has given out the follow
ing statement to the Associated Press:
In answer to Gen. Funston's state
ment made in an address to the stu
dents of Stanford university that if
| congress would drive out the friars and
conhscate every inch of church pro-
| perty the bottom would drop out of the
lnSurrectiOn within one week The in
habitantS of Luzon are COMPLETELY IN
der the church., I deem it proper to
make the following public statement:
knowing what do from most reli-
aDIe authority of Gen. FunStOn's broad
mindedness and sense of fairness. I do
not believe that he has been quoted
correctly. He may have stated that the
insurgents demand this as a condition
OF peace, put that he gave them as his
own sentiments can not credit. From
my own experience I know how easy
1t IS to be misquOted. All I can say is
II Gen. Funston did make this state
ment, he manifested a dense ignorance
of the work done by the religious or
ders in this archipelago. On the very
face of it, however, it shows quite
plainly that it did not come from one
as we'll posted as Gen. Funston should
be on affairs in Luzon. He is quoted
as saying: The inhabitants of Luzon
are completely under the church, Now
when every priest with the exception
of few natives) in the island of I,u-
zon, outside of the walled city of Ma
Mia, is a prisoner of the insurgents?
For the past IS months this state of
affairs has existed, and during all this
period more than $50 friars have been
undergoing unheard of torture in in
Surgent dungeons. This being a fact
it is hard for me to see how the islands
can be under the friars.' 1t looks to
me as though just the opposite were
the case. That the insurgents have
asked as one of their terms of peace the
expulsion of the friars and the confsca-
ton to the insurgents of all the church
property is a fact well known; but we
are told by the government officials (and
know it to be a fact from other re-
liable sources) that the insurgents rep
resent only one tribe out of the IS
tribes peopling the archipelago so the
sentiments voiced by the insurgents,
about the friars and church property
can not be taken as the sentiments of
the great body of the natives any more
than they can be taken as the senti-
ments of the natives towards our peo-
pie and government.
Whatever the natives are or have
they owe to the friarS. BY them they
were lifted out of savagery and brought
under the blessed and refining inf1u-
ences of Christianity. By them they
We're educated, not only in the schools,
but in the fields and the workshops
were taught by them the very indus
tries which are now the source of their
prosperity. Mr.. Prieton, the agent of
the Episcopal foreign mission associa-
tiOn tells US that the natives are the
most moral and religious people on the
face of the globe Now, the men who
taught them to be so can not be such
men as some narrow minded people
would try to have US to believe. Rev.
DR.. Abel, a Scotch Protestant mission
airy, also testified that nearly the whole
population of the Philippine archipe-