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Show GENERAL FUNSTON AND ARCH-EISHOP ARCH-EISHOP IRELAND. General Funston seems to have allowed al-lowed himself to grow hysterical over the charges made in the San Francisco-Monitor, Francisco-Monitor, on the authority of a Mr. Fox, that he had participated in church desecration des-ecration in the Philippines. Archbishop Ireland, having heard these charges, ventured the opinion that the General should contradict them, whereupon the brave Kansan, not having a clear idea of what the Archbishop did say in reality, rushed to the nearest telegraph office and instructed his attorneys at Topeka to institute libel proceedings against the Monitor and Archbishop Ireland as well. . We have no doubt that General Funston Fun-ston has cooled off ere this and will see the folly of acting hysterically in the matter. The Chicago Evening Post, in the following paragraph, treats the matter with the dignity which the incident, in-cident, in our judgment, deserves: very much to our surprise, auh-bishop auh-bishop Ireland is not in the least alarmed by the intelligence that General Gen-eral Funston is speeding on frorn Albuquerque Albu-querque breathing threatenings and slaughter. "We expected to hear that by thia time the Archbishop was on the high seas seeking refuge in the deepest bowels bow-els of. the .Vatican. Under all the conditions con-ditions the calm demeanor and tranquil poise of the Archbishop command our admiration. It is true that we are unable un-able to fix any tremendous degree of offense on the Archbishop, but these are troublous times, and General Funston Funs-ton is a man of the loftiest spirit and the most undaunted mettle. "Much depends on the skill of hia lawyers, who, we trust, will seek to dissuade him from the perils of forced marches to Minnesota. We do not doubt that his regiment would cheerfully cheer-fully accompany him and gladly swim the many rivers along the line of invasion, in-vasion, but we hope that this method of revenge and vindication will be abandoned. aban-doned. "As a point of law we cannot see that the General has any ground of action against the Archbishop, although his valiant services in the Philippines might be taken into account by the loyal and patriotic bench. We repeat that we hope the General will cool off and show himself worthy of that high Senatorial position to which he is soon to be called. Our valiant young friend should quench his fighting spirit for the time and cultivate the impulses of the statesman." |