The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-08-16
THE HERMIT KINGDOM.
Es-Hrinister Hubbard on Corea and tn
War In the East.

states Minister TO Japan under Cleve-
lands first administration, and tempo
rary Chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional convention of 1884, was called
upon by a Globe. Democrat correspond
ent and asked for bis views on the Japan
China war. The Governor said:
"The war had its origin as far back as
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Japan and Corea had more than once
bloody wars and invasions of the latter
country, and then Japan and China, and
China and Corea, all of which result
ted, without burdening your readers with
details, in the claim of 'suzerainty,' so
termed, over Corea by both China and
Japan, each claiming as price of con.
quest the exercise of this armed protect.
crate Corea, weak and dependent
people, abjectly acknowledged this pro
.tectorate as n vassa alike to Pekn and
kyoto and Toxic, paying annual tributes
OF rice or money as the consideration of
this protectorate, and yet, strange cor.
tradiction as it appears, neither Japan
nor China conceded, until 1860, under
the treaty of Tien-Ttin, that the protect.
crate was mutual. Under that treaty,
concluded between Japan and China,
succeeding the Formosan troubles of the
two empires, they compromised this old
contention as TO Corea by mutually con.
ceding the right, on giving due notice
to the other, to send and maintain a
given number of troops in Corea for the
purpose of protecting the lives and prop
erty and commerce of their respective
residents, subjects within the treaty
ports of Corea; that the said military
contingents should be used solely for the
purposes named, and not to be increased
save on due notice to each other. The
treaty acknowledges the hereditary mon
archy of Corea and that il is a treaty
power, both said nations having recently
concluded independent treaties with
Corea. Meanwhile Japan, wonderfully
progressive, soon outstripped her great
and rival neighbor China (between whom
there never was any love lost for centur-
les past) in securing the primacy of the
commerce of Corea and the inland seas,
and while Corea favored China and dis
liked japan she yielded to fate, and
early became the debtor nation to Japan
in her trade relations.
CHINA SIDED WITH CoREA.
"Then instructions arose and rebel
lions in Corea and China, which depre-
dated on japanese commerce and result
ed in the murder, not only of many of
the leaders of their own court, but of
japanese subjects and merchants as well.
China, be il said to her infinite credit,
advised Corea to pay an indemnity of
many millions to Japan, and thus avoid
war, and consequently invasions. This
friendly act by China welded, so to speak,
the entente cordiale between Corea and
China, and brought about really better
feeling between the two great empires in
this controversy for the time. China,
however, grew jealous, naturally, of
Japan's commercial power over Corea,
md stickled over the treaty provisions
If Tien-Tsin time and again. Meantime,
Kim o Kim, once member of the Co.
can Cabinet, became involved in con-
piracy to overthrow the Government of
Corea and to murder the King, 80 runs
he current unofficial history of that
ime, and these events are recited in the
egations of treaty powers whilst ! was
n Toxic, from 1885 to 1889. He fled TO
apan and received asylum from that
'ower.
"Demands for Kim 0 Kim by Corea
,ere refused, another source OF bad feel
no in Corea. China sympathized with
he Hermit Kingdom This ill'feeling
ecame intensified when at Shanghai af-
prwards Kim O Kim was assassinated by
,orean and Chinese procurement, so the
ress and people of Japan boldly charged
nd believed. Then recently formida-
IL ;nsurrection against the King and his
vnasty. of which the public is aware.
Iaturally lawless and barbarous, out OF s
IL ;psurrection japanese commerce was
epredated upon and DESTROYED ana
,me Of their subjects murdered within
,eir treaty concessions. Japan resented