The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-03
THE JAPANESE m KOREA
How Marquis Ito Won conoes-
sions For His Country.
gYMPAFHY OF NATIvEg DIVIDED

Powerful Classes In Favor of Japan,
Tong HaIss ana southern Rice
Growers Are Opposed-Ixorean Em-
peror said 10 BE Entirely sub
servient 20 japanese Demands.
Indifference Of Koreans TO OUT
come OF the War.
A stan correspondent Of the New
York Post at Seoul, Korea, recently
sent 70 his paper the following article
on japanese influence in Korea.
How it feels to be the bone Of con-
tention has been the subject OF diigent
inquiry. Altogether it appears that
the Korean people do not care which
side wins or whether the established
government Of their country is over
thrown This is because Of popular
dissatisfaction with the dynasty which
has held sway for oil years Corrup-
, tion that makes American boss meth
DDS seem like a code Of political NOR
, ais has thriyed hi Korea and grown
during authentic history, which means
since 81 b. G. There can scarcely be
any preference for Japanese suprema-
cy over Russian, for this is the fifth
time that Japan has entered the coun-
try to its damage Traditions 400 years
old tell what rayages she has commit
! ted in Korea, and she is still referred
D to as that accused nation" Yet
[ such men of consequence as / have
gained touch with declare that the
4 sympathy OF powerful classes is with
t Japan IT IS not credible, even If the
emperor has expressed cordial sentl-
, ments to the Marquis Ito. He is capa-
r Bile Of expressing the same sentiments
t to Russias prime minister, for he is
an arrant coward a man who weeps
from mere apprehension who looks
4, like the residue Of a deeadent line (as
1 be nearly is. for his son, the crown
a prince, can never have an heir), and it
5 is not long ago that he escaped from
r his palace in a woman's palanquin to
e the Russian legation 10 save himself
from Japanese plottings
l. The class which favors Japan is that
it OF the oiiiceholders. They have made
= a guess as 10 the outcome Of the war.
!. Tiger hunters Of the north are anti
Ii Russian They have attacked outposts.
IA Tong Haks of the middle procedures
q are anti-Japanese and within q few
n days destroyed a Japanese scouting
le force Rice growers in the south are
a frankly opposed TO the island people
II for, besides legends, there is daily eFi
ID dence Of their innate brutality Every
le English person on the ship We voyaget
by remarked upon the .'heastly way
4 the Japanese treated the Koreans Al
It the ports we stopped at Indiana o.
Delaware would not offer a negro sucl
ut general indignity and rough usage.
a You may infer what the emperor
own secret human feeling Is TOWARD
the japanese by recalling the incident
of Oct. Z, 1926. That was the nigh
: that forty five japanese in Seoul, will
the taeit approval Of the Japanese min
lister. Miura as afterward proved a
!, the trial-pIanned and carried out tn
assassination OF the empress. accord
n ing to General Dye, an American wh'
q was the emperor's military adviser anC
\ was present in the palace, the Japa
n nese rushed the guard. some Of then
r assuming Korean uniforms. pulled thu
palace women by the hair TO compe
r. them to indicate the whereabouts O
!. her majesty, threw some off the We
q randa roof, cut and kicked others, muir
q dered two, slashed the crown princes
with sword and threw her downstairs
Tho af,,praos ,y-os ,7waantprr vt-bar kho,
= found her The minister Of the house
If hold stood at the door with hands out
" spread to keep the Japanese back, an,
Il his two appraised hands were choppe,
.e Off The empress ran. Out on the We
e randa she was oyertaken and stabbed
y She asked If the crown prince wa
II safe, "and a Jap jumped on her breast
d and ran a sword through her The
is her body, alive or dead, no one knows
. was taken to the deer park. sprinkle,
with kerosene and burned so that moth
N ing remained for interment but on
It bone Of one finger
.e This woman was the emperors wife
IS She ruled him, no doubt, but he care
Is for her He refused TO sign the edie
n which the Japanese caused to be pre-
Ie pared reducing her to the lowest or
der which is about the only admira
" bic action Of his that one casual,
l, hears about He feared to eat any
is thing except what was sent in a lock
cd box from the United States iega
ton, and he had to fee at last to Thu
Russian legation on account of anoth
N er edict which the Japanese caused t
a. issue abolishing the topknot Of hal
ig which Koreans have worn for 200
u. years. lie and the people resented th
n abolition as an attempt 10 make then
OF look like japanese.
d, Is It possible that the compliment
g to Marquis Ito have any lasting sig
nlhcanceg
The other day north Korean wa
shot by Japanese as a Russian spy
ID In Itos prefecture people have sui
lit fered much from the present invaders
e Phyongyong, for example, was reduce,
ID in the Japan-China war from popula
Of ton OF 10000 to population 81 10,