The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-18

potic power, NOT only 10 the way Of
suppiantine courts ia the adminIstra
ton % Justice, but N dealing out ex
IRENE penalties. even death The men
and unmarried women who carry bur
dens on crotehed sticks tied to their
backs thought few years ago that
they had 40 invincihle organization.
Numbering 10000. self governing and
detached from operations Of law 'like
German university students, who are
responsible 70 the faculty, but not to
the police All that Is of the past. It
was incompatible with order One
would like to know more about it. and
If tie japanese make "the 'front.'
prohibited territory long enough hope
to learn
Perhaps tile form Of government has
had much 10 DO with the failure Of
trade organization. one win need to
remember. however. that China. with
the most elaborate trade unionism In
the world. has not a high standard Of
popular living
1t turns out that my Impression on
landing nc Fusan was correct there
are practically but two classes. "TIo il
neither ox nor horse" IS one Of the pop
ular SOS Ings Yet there are fine sub
ordinate distinctions. EmperOrs, no
bIes and the rest are counted as the
three main divisions. Among the third
there are subdivisions. and in the low
est Of the subdivisions there are still
others. called "the seven vile cailingss =
those OF tile boatlRan. the merchant.
the jailer the mail carrier, the monk.
the butcher and the sorcerer Outside
Of an are the serfs or slaves which are
held as chattels and Inherited like
pieces of land "All that has preserved
tie present mode OF government one
Is informed bg missionary who has
long lived here and observed. rs the
practice of making the whole family Of
malefact0F responsible for his mis-
deeds Thus II is still the law that
the wife aud children Of d condemned
criminal shall become the slaves Of the
eonvlcting Judge Imagine whether
even banded justice is common The
good which IS supposed to reside in the
practice Is that violation Of law and
revolutions are kept down. A man II
likely to hesitate long il the act he pur-
poses to take shall mean moi only pun
ishment TO himself but to all those 10
whom he is tied by blood aud affection.
Curiosity regarding why the Koreans
have not Iii 81 years overturned
grinding dynasty ought ! think to be
somewhat satisfied with the explana-
ton contained in the enforcement Of
this detail Of despotie feudalism.
/ don't blame them fer not crying,
like the murdered empress, s'Korea for
tile Koreans" and suppose no distance
or lack of contact can prevent any one
in Christendom from seeing that the
very circumstance that the court il
outwardly under japanese influence at
present produces a pro Russian faction.
To quote from the Daily Bulletin:
During Marquis Ito's sojourn the pro-
Russians were AL silent AZ II they
had disappeared, but after the marquis
left Seoul III Kun TAX is said 10 have
gone 10 the palace and Xii Yong su is
reported to have opened his doors to
many guests Ito had enough sol
diers here to make the palace COM
pound waste place If lie wanted to;
and as | have said before knowing
what speak Of, the emperor is fearful
Of his shadow and has to have actual
III some one hold his hand when dam
ger threatens Morning calm with him
Is not climatic; it needs human sup
port.