The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-08-08
KOREA HES|TATES
TO Be SWALLOWED
BUT PREFERS THE NAV OF JAP.
AN TO THAT OF RUSSIA.
Two ENJOYS From Hermit Kingdom
Seek Offices of President
Roosevelt.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 3.-Two
Koreans are waiting at Oyster Bays
only hotel this evening in the hope
that President Roosevelt will receive
them tomorrow morning and accept
from their hands memorial from the
people of their little empire.
Rev. p. X. Yoon and Mr.. Syngman
Rhee, the ENJOYS in question, assert
that they do not represent the en-
peror, as he is under Russian influence.
They are spokesmen for a powerful
society, II Chin Hoi, which translated
means THE Daily Progress" and hope
that the President will use his
good Offices to prevent their little
country from being partitioned off or
gobbled up entirely by the warning
powers in the east.
I'VE wish it distinctly understood
that we are not representatives of the
emperor" said DR.. Yoon, the spokes-
man, ''for our emperor does not now
represent the best interests of the peo-
pie of Korea. There has been a won
derful awakening in Korea within the
last few years, but it has all taken
place among the lower classes The
officials are tainted with the influence
of Russia. The people of Korea want
the friendship of the American people
and the American government. The
American government was the first
tn all uif
rean government and that treaty, made
in 1880, still stands. The Korean peo-
pie feel that unless this government
continues to befriend them, the Rus
SLAMS and the Japanese will grind them
to pieces like grain between the mill
stones"
In further conversation, DR.. Yoon
declared that the protectorate eXer-
cised over Korea by Janpan was OBJ
tanned by trickery through incorrect
translation of the language of the Dr.
iginal treaty. STILL as between the
japanese and'the Russians, they would
have little hesitancy in choosing the
former for masters.
The Russians have ever been the
enemies OF our people" he said; they
stand for everything that is hateful
and deceitful, and we rejoice that the
japanese are winning in this VAR"
The President received todaya num-
ber Of important callers, including Sir
Henry Mortimer Durand, the British
ambassador; Lieut.. Commander w.
Sims, of the navy; Judge w. J. Cal
Eoun, the special commissioner to
Venezuela; w. w. Russell, the new
minister TO Venezuela; William Sey-
mour Edwards, distant relative of
the Roosevelt family, and Alvin H.
Sanders, chairman of the reciprocity
convention which is to meet in Chi
cago
Ambassador Durand assured the
newspapers when he arrived and when
he departed that his coming had moth
ing whatever to do with the pending
peace negotiations. He had merely
run down from Lenox, Mass, to see
the President on matter that could
be better discussed by word of mouth
than by letter. Messrs. Calhoun and
Russell came to talk with the Presi-
dent about Venezuelan problems be-
fore starting on their journey to South
America, and the rest of the callers re-
ceived were on social missions bent.
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassa-
dor, will come on the 1920 p. m. train
Friday with Count Witte for the pur-
pose of introducing the latter to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and they will take
luncheon with President and Mrs.
Roosevelt and leave on the 4:20 p. m.
train for New York.