The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-24
FUNSTON
CALLED
DOWN.
For an Assertion he is Alleged to
Have Made in a Speech at
Stanford University /
AS TO PHILIPPINE SITUATION
That Friars Should be Driven oua
and Every Inch of Church
Property Confiscated.


WASHINGTON. Oct. 2a.-Archblshop
chapelle, of New Orleans. apostolic deli
egate to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil
ipplnes, to-day gave out the following
statement to the Associated Press:
In answer to General FunstOn's state
ment, made in an address to the stu
dents Of Stanford University, that iii
Congress would drive out the FriaTs
and confiscate every inch of church
property, the bottom would drop out Of
the insurrectIon within one week. The
inhabitants OF Luzon are completely
under the church." deem It proper TO
make the following statement:
knowing what do from most relis.
BILE authority Of General Funston's
observation-disclosures 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 condi-
tion Of peace; but that he gave them
as his own sentiments cannot credit
From my own experience, know how
easily It is to be misQuoted.
All can say is, II General Funston
did make this statement he manifested
dense ignorance Of the work done by
the religious orders in this archipelago.
On the very face of it, however, 1t
shows quite plainly that 1t did not come
from one as well posted as General
Funston should be on affairs in Luzon.
He is quoted as saying The inhabitants
Of Luzon are completely under the
church Now would ask how can this
be possible when every priest. with the
exception OF few natives in the island
of Luzon outside of the walled city of
Manila, is prisoner of the insurgents?
Friars are Prisoners.
For the past eighteen months this
state OF AFFAIRS has existed and during
all this period more than $50 Friars
have been undergoing unheard of tor
lures in Insurgent dungeons. This le-
ing a fact, 1t is hard for me to see how
the islands can be under the Frlsrs.'
1t looks to me as though Just the oppo-
site were the case.
"That the insurgents have asked as
one Of their terms OF peace the expul-
sion of the FrIars and the confiscatIon
to the insurgents of GIl the church prop
erty is a fact well known: but we are
told by the government officials (and
know 1t to be fact from other reliable
sources) that the insurgents represent
only one tribe out of the elghty-five
tribes peopling the archipelago. so the
sentiments voiced by the insurgents
about the F'riars and church property
cannot be taken as the sentiments OF
the great body of the natives toward
our people and government. Whatever
the natives are or have they owe to the
Friars.
Conflscntion of Estates.
"As to the conflscatIon OF the estates,
you might as we'll talk of conhscatlng
the estates OF the vanderbIlts, the As
tors and other mIllionaires whose Is
tates have, in the course OF years,
grown so wonderfully. There would ce
Just as much right and Justice in one
ease US III lue OlHGT' 4He cSthlSS VI tlS
religious orders have been acquired in
the usual way by purchase and In :he
course of nearly four centuries have
naturally grown large; but IL even un-
biased Protestant witnesses are to be
credited, large as they are, all are used
for the betterment and uplifting OF the
natives.
zone word now on another subject.
I see that it is said that the object of
my visit to the white house on satur
day was to protest against the lootlns
and desecrating of the churches In the
Philippines. This was not the case AS
to the lootlng and desecratng of these
churches. am informed by a person
whose word l cannot doubt, that this
looting was not done by our American
soldiers. hut by the insurgents and the
Chinese"
(slEncd} "P. L. cHAPELLE,
Archbishop of New orleans, Delegate
Apostle"
MINISTER BUCIhANAN