Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-24

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ORDERS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
BELIEVES GENERAL FUNSTON
HAS BEEN MISQUoTED.
WASHINGTON, October 23.--Arch.
bishop Chapelle. of New Orleans,
apostolic delegate to Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines. to-day gave out
the following statement to the Assoc
ciated Press:
In answer to Gen, Funston's state
ment, made in an address to the stu
dents of stanford University. that III
Congress would drive out the Friars
and conhscate every inch of church
property. the bottom would drop out
of the Instruction within one week.
The inhabitants of Luzon are COM
pletely under the church. | deem It
proper to make the following public
statement:
knowing what l do from most re-
liable authority of Gen. Funston'a
road-mindedness and sense OF fair
ness, l do not believe that he has been
quoted correctly. He may have stat
ed that the insurgents demand this
as a condition of peace; but that he
gave them as his own statements I
cannot credit. From my own exper-
fence. know how easily 1t is to be
,,,i-u,,atua All can c~xr 70 ~ Can
Funston did make this statement he
manifested a denae Ignorance OF the
work done by the religious orders tn
this archipelago. On the very face OF
1t, however, it shows quite plainly
that it did not come from one as well
posted as Gen. Funston should be on
affairs in Luzon. He is quoted as say
ing The inhabitants OF Luzon arc
completely under the church. Now
l would ask how can this be possible
when every priest with tho exception
of few natives on the HAND OF lil-
zon outside of the walled cry u Ma.
Mia is a prisoner of the insurgent7
For the past eighteen months tn
state OF affairs has existed and duTv
| ing all this period mora than 30
Friars have been undergoing unheard.
Of tortures in insurgent dnngeonsl
This being a fact, 1t 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 expil-
sion of the friars and the confscation
to the insurgents Of all the church prop
erty is a fact well known; but we are
told by the government officials (and 1
know It to be fact from other reliahle
sources) that the insurgents represent
only one tribe out OF the eighty-ilye
tribes peopling the archipelago, 80 the
sentiments voiced by the insurgents
about the friars and church property
cannot be taken as the sentiments Of
the great body of the natives. No
more than they can be taken as the
sentiments of the natives toward our
people and government.
"Whatever the natives are or have
they owe to the friars.
"As TO the confscation Of the estates,
Won might as well talk Of conhscating
the estates Of the yanderbilts, the As
tors and other millionaires whose es-
tates have. in the course Of years.
herown so wonderfully. There would DO
lust as much right and justice In one
case al in the other The estates Of the
religious orders have been acquired in
! the usual way by purchase, and In the
course OF nearly four centuries have
naturally grown large; but II even I'M
biased Protestant witnesses are to be
credited large as they are, all are used
| for the betterment and uplifting Of the
natives.
aone word nov on another subject
see that ii Is said that the object q
nv visit to the White House on satur-
dav was 10 protest against the footing
and Decorating Of the churches In tho
PHILIPPINES. This was not the Gaze. AZ
to the lootlng and Decorating Of these
churches, am informed BY person
whose word l cannot doubt, that this
looung was not done by our American
soldiers. but By the insurgents and the
! Chinese.
6signed.1 aP. L. CHAPPELIE,
Archbishop OF New Orleans. Delegate
! Apostle