The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-10-24
THE FRIARS.
Archbishop Chappelle on Church
Work in the Philippines.
FRIARs CIVILIZED THE sAvAGEs.

The Archbishop Discredits the Report
That General Funston Urged Confis-
eating Church Property. and Asserts
That Troops Looted No Churches.
Washington. Oct. 24.-Archbishop
Chappelle, of New Orlans, apostolic
delegate to Cuba, Porto Rico ard tho
Philippines. yesterday gave out tho
following statement to the press:
I'm answer to General Funston's
statement made in an address to the
students of Stamford university that
If congress would drive out the
friars and confscate every inch of
church property the bottom would
drop out of the insurrection within
one week; the inhabitants of Luzpn
are completely under the church,
deem it proper to make the following
public statement:
knowing what l do from most re-
liable authority of General Funston's
broad mindedness and sense of fair
ness, do not believe that he has been
quoted correctly He may have stated
that the insurgents demand this as
condition of peace, but that he gave
them as his own sentiments | cannot
credit. From my own experience |
know how easily it is to be mis-
quoted. All | can say is, If General
Funston did make this statement, he
manifested a dense ignorance of the
work done by the religious orders in
this archipelago On the very face of
it, however, it shows quite plainly
that it 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,
l would ask how can this be possible
when every priest with the exception
of a few natives) in the Island of
LuzoE outside of the walled city of
Manila is a prisoner of the insurgents?
"That the insurgents have asked as
one of their terms of peace the ex-
pulsion of the friars and the eonfisca-
tion to the insurgents of all the church
property is a fact well known, but we
are told by the government officials
land l know it to be a fact from other
reliable sources) that the insurgents
represent only one tribe out of the So
tribes peopling the archipelago, so 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 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
influences of Christianity BY them
they were educated, not only in the
schools, but in the fields and the work
shops were taught by them the very
industries which are now the source
of their prosperity"
Archbishop Chapelle then quotes
many Protestants in support of the
above statement. and continues:
GAS to the confiscation of the es-
tates, you might as well talk of con
fiscating the estates of the Wander
bilts. the Astors, and other million.
aires whose estates have, in tn course
of years, grown so wonderful s. here
would be just as much right nd jus
tice in one case as in the ota r. The
estates of the religious orders have
been acquired in the usual way by pur-
chase, anu III Ine COURSE OI nearly lOu'
centuries have naturally grown large
but if even unbiased Protestant wit
nesses are to be credited, large as they
are, all are used for the betterment
and uplifting of the natives.
"In short time l will start for the
Philippines, and l will personally in
vestigate all charges made against
religious orders, titles of property, ETC.
Until l have completed my work l
would ask the good people of the
United States not to be too ready to
swallow as facts the opinions of gen.
tlemen whose previous training ano
lack of opportunities to get at the real
facts do not warrant their statements
81 see that it is said that the object
of my visit to the White House on
Saturday was to protest against the
looting and desecrating of the church
es in the Philippines. This was not
the case. AS to the looting and desc
Grafton of these churches | am inform
ed by a person whose word | cannot
doubt that this looting was not done
by our American soldiers. but by the
insurgents and the Chinese
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