The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-03-22
MOUrHINGs OF A JAYHAWKER.

MOUrHINGS OF A JAYHAWKER.
Little Fred Funston, of Kansas, who
was made a brigadier-general by
President Mckinley for capturing Ag-
uinaldo, the Filipino leader, has been
the guest OF Chicago imperialists. At
ter drinking high-priced wines, he was
called on to speak, and made an ass
Of himself. He described how he cap
tured Aguinaldo: when ( got into
the house and went up to Aguinaldo,"
he said, 1.-The gentleman was very mel
low, indeed. But he grew a little hys-
terical. oh, he said to me, certainly
this is Il joke, sir, all joke, isn't ity
Not much, old man, l said. It's the
real thing and the little fellow nearly
collapsed"
1t has since TRANSFERRED, and Funston
admits it, that it was Il young soldier
named Taylor who discovered the
place where the Filipino was con-
cealed and told Funston of it. 10 en-
trap Aguinaldo, the little jayhawker
made use Of forged documents and
succeeded in his strategem. 1t was
not by strategy, but by treachery that
he made Aguinaldo captive He calls
it I'll dirty Irish trick" 1t certainly
is !; dirty trick that no Irishman
would employ. He says tl,at-"t am
the sort Of man who is for his coun-
try, right or wrong" and he unques-
tionably is.
When he was on Il leave of absence,
two years ago, a Californian paper
charged him with looting churches.
He threatened a suit for damages, but
when urged to go ahead, he thought
discretion the better part of valor,
when he learned that there was suffi-
Gent evidence to prove him guilty.
What n man like Funston says is
hardly worth noticing. He is IL vul-
garian Of the lowest type and has no
regard for veracity. He hates the Fill
ipino and lies about him. Listen to
the following rigmarole which has
been repeatedly written and spoken
by imperialists, and as often refuted
by patriotic Americans during the
past three years:
ut is a well-known matter of his
tory that when the city of Manila was
surrendered to the army under Cen
eral Merritt and Admiral Dewey, the
United States, which was morally re-
spOnsible for the welfare of some hum
dreds of Spanish families. some tens
of thousands of Spanish soldiers. part
of whom were prisoners in her hands,
part of whom had fallen prisoners to
Aguinaldo-if we had gone off and left
those men to the mercy of an ire
spOnsible, turbulent and uncontrolla-
bic mob which constituted the army
of Aguinaldo, there would have been
a massacre that would have been ut
least equal to the massacres of Bull
garin and Armenia. and would have
been a standing blot and disgrace to
the United States-a thing that we
never could have blotted OUT
Little Funston then turned his mud
battery on he anti-imperalsts of this
country and denounced them in choice
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the men who have fallen since the
month of January, 1000, have died not
because the Filipino really had much
heart in fighting against us, but be-
cause they were kept up by lot of
misinformed and misguided people
here in the United Staes." That was
the kind of talk used in the presiden-
tial campaign and (which bamboozled
thousands of voters to support McKin-
ley in his policy of ''forcible lnnexa-
tion," which he himself had called
criminal aggression"
Fred Funston may be brave man,
as far as physical courage goes, but
morally he is coward. He thinks
the little brown man of the Philip
pines should be slave under tile gov
eminent at Washington He believes
in making of the island of Samar a
desert where even bird cannot
live" He believes in the hanging and
transportation of the natives for OPP