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......COREA.

A Soont correspondent of the, N... Daily There has been much written of late with regard to Cores and her responsibility as to the wor, and we regret to say that much of what has boon written will mislead the Coreans and do them a grong. It will also allenato the sympathy of the Japanese from the very people i whom we desire most of all to help in their

time of need.

the outbreak of the war, there were just as many na thero aro to day, and yet private citizens were thugged and violated until they had at last, in the interests of common safety, to pro- vide a man for every fire houses to patral the streets and shout off the robbera. Sufles it to say that there is no longer need of patrols in civilisp dross, or man with rattling sticks to go howling about the streets at night.

Cores is no easy task to deal with, oven though the people are Lind, trustworthy, and Joven lo. Westerners have in the past at. To the ignorant people of this country, the tempted more than one small change with this responsibility for the war resta, horvon knows easy going peoplo, silk-culture, paper-making, where they know not and care not. All they army training, glass manufacture, education, soe is an invasion of Japanese pouring into the And they have all failed not because the land; a railway of theirs tunzing the whole foreigners in charge wore failures, but becauso XTRA COPIES of Daily PR length of it: ringstraked and spotted ecobes the toros mind does not yet moro along any sale day at Mr. AH YAU'S FERRY from the 1sland Empire batting into them of these lines; There is no nentide silk- MANUFACTURERS WHARF STALL. Price 15 cents per copy from the strosta. When the Corean

with his long pipe. fg us yet, no present-day paper-making, no army worth the name, no Flass, and no thoroughly educated men from the schools, of Seoul, though they have had first-class toachers,

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and patriarchal look of wonder, he is fromently waiconod by ouff or a kick to exclaim, "Under heaven and

among mon where um I" He does not wish to awaken to the fact that a pipe so long on a jostling afrost. now-a. days is out of order, and timt if he stands and gapes he will saanrodly I run over by the into no end-of déshabille,

Much forge, much compulsion, and alus, any bitter days are in store for them ere they emerge into intelligence, industry, and honesty.

Of all countries in the world'

Jour corres- pendent desires first the weal of this peniusalu. but at present he cannot see it apart from

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This same Corean talks over the wrong he would retorn 43 speedily as possible to the con- way, it suffers at the hands of the Japanese. He vus kickad. Ile has been kicked before for hisition of ten years ago, and the Palace would be stupidity, we are sorry to say by a missionary goblins, that have constituted the real Cabinet

rug us more bi sororers, fakirs, but that is not the question none. It is thes Japanese West matter to him if three hun- in the past. There would be no reform, and no dred and sixty thousand, or inff a million of desire for reform, and men like Yim Chi-ho, and them are among the deal, woundied, or missing Sangria, and others, who are true mesi and on the battle field, thin is his land to do as he intelligent, would be imprisoned puddled, pleases in, and he calls ou the gads to back lim nehogy for Corea alone. none;

Mtortaret, exilel, and, beheaded,

There is up in it. He absolves limself from all respon

Japan sibility for the war, and aufortunately inchst do the work. We trust that she will net the part of a great and trus protector. As yet that is written encourages him in thy sholation.

we she no reason to think otherwise of her. It in an ally short-sighted way. This is up too early in the day to hold up irrelevant

Many of the more enlightened Corcans_talk

fault of

state of affairs is our govern

thing us

us evince and pass judgment. When mont's faulty also fall in phong thut Cost has suffered as Japan, and Manobarin, ible for their gretumus, that for the sins of with ur blood from a war that she is equally down through the ages peoples are held respond Bussis; and who all the bills are marked King Manasseh Israel went inte exile; and that responsible for having brought about, then in the trail of grasping Cassinis, Parks, and Isra's sighing will surely be heard and Mosrs

the deliverer will come. Alexiefs are the flood drops of half a millker poor Rumian peasants. ~ Bol what of that? say they, we must be free to waste the utoraal the sin of the Palace."

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Ian wand the bony of Cerea to-day is not the Taput, bus the Palace, where ignorance, super stition, and cruelty hold sway, Enslertsighted is

These Coreaus do not remember that not they

when there will be no more slaughtering of men themselves, but Coneral Hasegawa Held off, like Chang Halk, Cha Tak-hyun, and Kim zi-is year, an invasion of Cossacks by way of Hong jur. whose sin was a desire to clean out Tara-Kyung on invasion that would have done a whopt of the present, et to, learn her

Augen stable and revive the land this

Lot incalculably more mischief than many years of the Japanese. You ask them about it and they les, und teus God for the future. To the Bay! Why, yos, that is something to be fullest extent of bur territory and influence, she thankful for, we navor thought at that before.

stards responsible for the war. In Glas blood The Corean is not an unfair inan or unkind, and sweat and suffering of it she has shared but he does net think, Ho has no view of the 20thing. Let us help heran se her faults, her world in proper perspective. His sight extends sins, a good-for-nothingness, help her to just to his own limits, front yard and ends wace to ati oarnest, diligent, honest life, and it thers, and has to do with ity farm more

will be fine annagh then to declaim against a than reality and truts.

protectorate and the high-handedness of the Japanese

There is another, group of Coreans, however, who say: “This waą serves us jolly well-right. We have been larynd-for-nothing, sinful, deceitful, indifferent to all reform, unwilling to learn, and this is our day of judgment. Lu's, confess our sius and awaken to the lesson.”

SEA GUNNERY DEFECTS,"

HAD VENTILATION- BLAMED FOR FOOD

SHOGTING.

A naval gunmory offer, frash home from hypical station, told an Express representative at Devonport some things which appear to throw a now light upon the recent allegations with regard to the armummut of our battleships.

Thus men do not recept the theory that are net responsible; and vat as no of them remarked the other day: We have got off scot-free in comparison with others. Our little wrongs are not to be compared with Elo

Saffer- ings dough which Japan, Russia and Man charia a passing." These are the Corenus

Ta

-eur

help smiling at the manner in which people

· We folk in the servico," he said, “ cannot ashore gat hobl of the wrong end of the stick. that one can rest his hopes on and feel usstrad

A few weeks ago a terrible blen Alt they will yet do much for their country.

raised about the 12-inch Mark VII gus. The Japan, meanwhile, is being soundly rated by critics hirmed the gaus, bút in this case it is the ignorant classes and by some foreigners not a question of defective inuer tubes, bad for her whole course of action during the past mountings, or family sights. All those things year. She is threatening a protectorato, we are told. But what of that? We have had a

ure the best that money and mechanicalingen- protectorate over since, the treaty was signauity san produce. The fault is the notoriously and sines war broke out. As to what a prodefective system of ventilation in rogue in e toctorate is lof the "Contury Dictionary warships. Let me explain. We size cordite ia the Naty Now cordite is very capricious. You must keep it gool,or it deteriorates surpris. A relation assumed by a strong nationingly, and besides playing all sorts of pranks with toward a week one, whereby the former protects your calculations of muzzle velocity and trajec the latter from hostile invasion or dictation,

tory, if shortens your range. And so you do not aod interferes more or less in its domnestic

hit the target, when you know perfectly well that concerns."

your elevation and direction, are absolutely and that your gun is marvel of precision. We corrent, that your sighting gear isirreproachable,

Buswer:

However, Japan's wrong-doings do seem to stand out on the face of things, no question

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One is that has sho not romoved from there supposed never to let the temperature of tho palace the corrupt, lying, lazy, ignorant officials, magazines risa above 90degs. But bon are we to help it! In my last ship the hooday who have brought the country to this pass, the friends of Russia, who would sell the land to temperature of the lower deck flats averaged about 30degs, and, in spite of all our precau morru if they had their way. Does Japan tions, I am sure the marozino frequently think she has won these men over? Not at all.

reached this. The result was that our cordite Is he ignorant of their inner mind? By no affered, and our last two quarterly practicos

hans. Then why dos sue not at one oust thom from power and instituio real reformstore when we paid off. It will be isaned to were very bad. That cordite was returned to That might seem very easy matter to us onlooker, but it is by no meus so. To in augurate any such radical change, at the present time, would please a few reformers only; it would alienato His Majesty more than ovor, and would stir up a hornet's nest, that might be very embarrassing indeed at this point when a great war is on her handa. Coros lus of her ow free will-kept these men in office for the last it seems hardly fair that Jupan hould be ordered to house-cleau sono one else's national boards, which are seeking to eliange A Washington, D. C., cable says -Inter- neglect and disorder, when she is confronted the monetary system of China and place it by h

half a hundred problems at home and half thoroughly on a gold standard basis, are en- million wisdom on her part to koop Corea as quist as

It surely countering anmerous obstacle arising from New possible till her hands are fre

the peculiar customs of the people practised througli

1,000 Again it is stated that the Japanese Gorern-

allied with religions of which are closely precepts. George E. ment allows her people to come in great Anderson, of Illinois, until recantly Consul at

and settle any whore.

Haugehan, has called attention to one of the though a close watch

peculiarities of the Chinese people which every year, upsets the monetary system of the or makes the banking business hazardous, contributes to the gouoral unrest of tho country. The custom of the Chinem is to pay all debts on the Chinese New Year. Invariably

results in breaking several batiks.

of Russians abroad.

numbers dently true,

This is

is

is being kept on the landings at Fasan, and in some cases objectionable partics are being turned back, yet great numbers are coming in It is unfortunate, but it cannot be held up as a of bad faith. The right to laud and five pieza anywhere in Cores has been contended for and established, tiret by the missionaries, tho French Fathers, then the Americans, and lastly the English. right tunt missionarios hare claimed and secured the Japanese may sarely huze n share in.

·AN OLD STORY RE-TOID.

The last New Year in China oecarred on

February 3, 4, and 6 during which period no mails were transported into the interior, all mail connections between Hangchu and Shang- bai were suspended, few newspapers, were published, and business came practically at standstill. The official court vielration lasted two weeks, and the offices of the provincial gorernirent were closed not only for that period ut antil such time as the officials had recovered from the celebration.

It is said again that they are securing land in unfair ways and that their Government shots ther. In refutation of this we would state that it is just the other day that the Japanese Government made one of their most powerful Mr. & Mrs. Zapf and banking companies restore a large property in Songdo on the demand of the Coreaus, bocnuse

According to custom every Chinarasu pays the title › the same did not soam elenc.

his debts during the celebration, in money, if We know that Japanese subjects are in some

possible. Ho may "rab Peter to pay Paal" cases very objectionable, and that they are

by borrowing from one friend to pay another, beyond the reach of law and do as they please but in some menner he pays the old dots. The among the Coreane. This, too, is a situation

consequent dein on the banks is enormous and following in the dread wake of war, and ons' interest rates go up. that we hope to see rectified in due timo cer "It is much as it would in the United -tainly as soon as peace is proclaimed, if not. States if all debts were payable at the same before. But the Japanese cannot possibly, on time, and banks should refuse creclit until, they -a moment's notice, provide police to safe-guard know what the outcome of the situation was to

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Coreans against all frams from their own be," writes Consul Anderson to the State DIRECTORY--- AND country, and so it seems unfair in this time of Department. During this period he states that their struggle with the mightiest on earth to interest rates sometimes rise as high as 20 por hold them responsible for every act of violenescent, a month, which is five times the ordinary perpetrated by their private citizens,

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