Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-10-24
Archbishop LhapelIe's Reply to
Gen. Funst0n's Statement.
PRIESTS ALL IN PRISON
hcnc4,,he Inland OF Luzon Cannot be "Un
der the Friars,' Argues the Prelate.
he Discusses Religious Inttnen-
ces In tho Philippines.
Dry Iniaoranhl

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Chapele, Of New Orleans. apostolic
| delegate to Cuba. Porto Rico and the
Philippines. today gave out the follow
ing statement 10 the Associated Press.
In answer TO General FunstonS
statement. made in an address to tie
students of Stanford University that
If Congress would drive out the friars
and contisaate every inch Of church
| property. the bottom would drop out of
the insurrectiun within one week The
inhabitants of I-uzon are completely
| under the church. l deem it proper to
| make the following public statement:
knowing what do from most relia-
Bile authority Of General Funston's
broad mindedness and sense OF fair
ness, | do not believe thar he has been
quoted correctly. He may have stated
that the insurgents demand this as a
condition Of peace, but that he gave
! them as his own sentiments, l cannot
credit From my own experience
know how easy it is to be misnuoted.
| All can say is if General Funston
| did make this statement. he manifest
| ed a dense ignorance of the work done
| by the religious orders in this archipel-
! ago. On the very face of it. however
ii shows quite plainly that it did not
| come from one as Well posted as Cen
| eral Funston should be on affairs in
Luzon. He is quoted as saying: The
| Inhabitants of Luzon are completely
iunder the church,
| PRIESTS IN PRISON.
| Now. l would ask how can this be
| possible when every priest with the
| exception of few natives) in the is
land Of Luzon outside OF the walled
city of Manila is prisoner Of the in
I pan 70 Eny~ no -
tmonIhs:t this state Of affairs has exist
ed. and during all this period more
than three hundred and fifty friars
have been undergoing unheard Of tor
! ture in insursent dungeons. This being
| fact. 1t is hard for ME to see how
the island can be under the frarS It
| looks TO me as though just the opposite
We're the case.
THAT the insurgents have asked as
| one of their terms OF peace. the expul-
| sion of the friars and the ,ontiscation
| to the insurgents of all the church
property is fact Well known: but We
are told by the government officials
! (and know it Ia be Il fact from ether
reliable sources) that the insurgents
represent only one tribe out of the
| eghty-tive tribes peopling the archl-
pelaso. SO the sentiments voiced by the
property cannot be taken as the senti-
| ments Of the great body OF the natives
| No more can they be taken as the sen
| timents of the natives toward our poo
| pie ana the government.
FRIARS CIVILIZED THEM.
| 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 int1u-
ence Of Christianity. Ry them they
| We're educated. not only in the schools,
but in the field and workshop: were
taught by them the Very industries
which are now the source of their PROS
| perty. Mr.. Peyton, the agent Of the
! Episcopal foreign mission association,
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 cannot be such men as
| some narrow-1ainded people would try
| TO have Us believe. Rev. DR.. Abeel. a
Scotch Protestant missionary, also tes-
titles that nearly the whole population
! Of the Philippine archipelago has been
converted TO the Catholic faith by the
! Spanish monks, and a wonderful i'm
provement in their social condition has
| been the result fIe then goes on TO
show that if any one doubts the i'm
provement it can easily be made mani
feet by comparing the Christian native
| to his southern neighbor of the same
! blood-the fanatical Moro.
AS TO CCNFIsCATICN.
! LAS to the confscation Of the estates,
you might as we'll talk of contiscating
the estates of the Vanderbits, the AS
| tors and other miilionaires whose es-
| tltes have, in the course Of years,
| grown so wonderfully. There would
be just as much right and justice in
one case as in the other. The estates
| OF the religious orders have been ac-
CURED in the usual way by purchase
and in the course of nearly four centu-
ries have gradually grown large; but
if even unbiased Protestant witnesses
are TO be credited large as they are,
all are used for the betterment and
uplifting of the natives.
"A former British consul Ca Protes-
tanD writing on this subject. says: 1t
was by means Of these estates the fri
| ars introduced agriculture and settled
habits Of life among tribes originally
nomadic. 1t was by means of these
estates that they got them to live in
villages and introduced amongst them
the arts Of civilized life. 1t was by
means Of these estates that they ac-
quired the power or inducing them to
| ty and method-the great safeguard
against a relapse again into their for
mer state OF savegery.
| tNAT'I VEcS LNEHE1D TCTELACE.
| The natives he says. are with