The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-03
KOREAN KING:
IS BUSTED
VIM. Haywood Tells of
Politics Around
Seoul.

he physician Oh MARQUIS ITO, lHe
Grand Old Man" of Japan, and now
the Viceroy of Korea. commanded Will
liam Haywood, United States Consul
General at Seoul, to leave Korea and go
| to Arizona for the benefit of his health
if he desired to live at all. Mr.. Hay
wood took the advice and left at once
and yesterday passing through Homo
lulu on the steamship Korea, he was
greeted by a host of friends. Mrs. Hay
wood and the children accompany him
home.
Mr.. Haywood, who was formerly Con-
sui General of the United States in
Honolulu, and later the representative
at Washington of the Hawaiian Sugar
Planters Association, was recently as
signed as Consul General to Korea, a
post which, in reality, means United
States Minister.
Mr.. Haywood is now a very sick man
and he is eager to get to Arizona. He
is unable to move about the steamer
without assistance and has to be car
ried up and down the companion~ays.
He was unable to leave the vessel yes
terday, but sat on sofa in the writ
ingroom near the doorway, where he
could see and meet all of his old-time
friends and incidentally gaze out to the
hills. Honolulu was always a faVorite
sojourning place with Mr. Haywood.
In appearance he is but a shadow of his
former self.
Mr.. Haywood talked interestingly of
Korea yesterday, although he had been
there only a few weeks when a pull
monary affliction caused him to leave.
81 was appointed to the post at Seoul
just before the executive order went
into effect concerning those who had
formerly been in the consular service,
and by accepting then I did not have
to go to the foot of the list said Mr..
Haywood.
THE American legation is a large
compound and is adjacent to the shack
that the Korean Emperor now lives in.
He has been leaving one palace after
another until he has picked out this |
shack. Well, I could carry on a con-
versation from the end of my piazza |
with the Emperor if he was on the end |
of his piazza. |
THE Emperor showed his cunning |
when he went to that shack. You see,
it's next to ours, and I believe that
the Emperor would not hesitate to drop
over the fence into our compound if
some unruly faction got after him. OF
as a Consul General / cannot /
harbor any one there, but at the same
time the Emperor is taking his chances.
In fact; believe he passed through the
American legation grounds to get to his
shack when he first went there.
t., OK
an autocrat and formerly had his hand
On all the funds there We're in the
State, but with the Japanese protector
ate over his kingdom he appears to
De poor. However, he tres to be square
n most of his dealings. He OCCASION
Ally digs up some coin, probably from
some part of his palace, where it may
nave been sailed down.
There was an American in Korea
who had a mining concession. But he
had to close down while I was there.
The Emperor or the Government, owed
linn some money. The American went
broke. He pawned his watch and jew
Try and it had to be redeemed before
October J. and he came to me and
lsked me if / could help him. I made
request for him through the usual !
hannels, and finally / was surprised to !
,et an order from the Residency for the ;
mount owing. The Emperor had dug
ID the coin from somewhere. s
The Japanese have a protectorate ,
yer Korea and they will undoubtedly /
ventually control Korea entirely. And V
Thy shouldn't they? They were robbed I
f the fruits of the Chinese Japanese c
5ar. They are restoring the govern v
lent to what it should be. The Korean
overnment was altogether corrupt. c
Marquis Ito is the power and the
rains of government in Korea. Ev- L
ry official matter that issues from the v
error has it's inception in Toxic or in
ne Residency General where Ito pre- u
des. Ito will probably leave Seoul a
December and go to Japan to remain u
uring the winter, as the cold weather
Korea does not agree with him. d. Il
Y. Stevens, the American adviser to u
lie Japanese who is now in Seoul, will q
2 practically in charge of affairs in
is absence, although of course the Jap
nese official under Ito will personally t
cad all affairs there. ?
Mrs. Haywood and daughter visited v
any friends in Honolulu and returned ii
the boat about 4 o'clock. Governor b
arter had quite chat with Mr.. Hay h
God and brought him many delicacies. d
mong them was a big bottle of milk, | p
hich caught Mr.. Haywood's fancy: t
MY. but that milk looks good he o
,mmented. =