The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-22
KOREAN JUNTA'S
LURID APPEAL
National Preservation Union in
America Inv0kes Murder
Upon Traitors.
(The Japan Times.>


The Koreans in America have re
| Gently organized a new society called
Tai-tong Po-kok Hoi (Great Nationa
Preservation Union). The following i:
! our translation of a circular sent out
| by the society and now being secretly
distributed in Korea. 1t has an apt
| caption, MAX Roi" or BURSTING
| Thunder and reads:
I'm a great voice we declare to the
world, Korea is the Korea of 20, 900 ,00C
Koreans and not private property in
the hands of a few villains. Nor is it
an object Of theft for foreigners. How,
then. can we bear to see 5000 miles of
our beautiful rivers and mountains and
twenty millions of our noble and en-
nghtened race thrown away of a morn
ing to feed ferocious tigers and savage
lions, through the conspiracy of a few
traitors and villains? Who would sub
nit to the fate of falling into the hell
prison of a thousand depths and under
going the cruel torture of eternal dam
nation? With swords drawn we roar
at few traitors and villains.
did your mothers bear you for for
eigners? Do your wives bring you the
children of foreigners? You, who de-
sire the ruin of your country and court
your own ruin, why do you busy your
selves day and night scheming for the
ruin of your country and conclude
agreements to sell it? IF you are not
bastards by foreigners, how dare you
to breathe the Korean air and live on
it's soil? Where were you born? Where
do you expect to die? Dare you deny
that you are perpetrators of crimes
against twenty million Koreans, or
that you are treacherous scoundrels
condemned by public justice for a
hundred million years? That you have
secured your offices is not by the fair
choice of our twenty millions. Nor is
the convention you have concluded
from the public desire of 20,000,000
Koreans. Tt is only mad convention
and the wild view of you few villains.
In these days of the twentieth century,
public justice is more and more clearly
recognized in all the civilized countries,
and public law, too, is greatly flourish
ing. Behold! the State is the public
property of the upright people, and
should never be turned into an object
of secret dealing for a few villains.
The choice, be it of a single official or
the decision, be it of a single affair,
can only be null and void ualess sup
ported by the public mind ard consent
of the nation. This heavens law and
mans path, always beholden and never
changing. Now, we twenty million
Koreans not only regard you few /
as mere lunatics, but have
long known of your traitorous crimes. 7
Every word, each character of the |
seven articles of the Japan-Korea /
convention, so called by rumor, is but I
a part of the scheme of enslaved /
knaves bent on selling their country. I
What an insane convention! What an
absurd idea! It is something to which /
none of our political parties or ma
tional organs, no class of our people,
not one of the twenty million Koreans
has ever lent. ears. Boiling and gush-
ing are our twenty millions. The
breath of their anger fills the air and /
their manly blood floods the seas.
You villains, your houses we may
burn down, your heads we may cut off,
your I6Sn we may CIlUp luLO twenty
million slices, and let our compatriots
feed on them. Yet we would not feel
Your blood we may pour
into twenty million cups and let our
drink of them. Yet cheer
less and heavy in heart, we would not
De merry. You have committed
crimes against mans race of heaven
and earth and have no heads to hold
lp. Rat-like you lay concealed in
'oreign embassy and fox-like you visit
he foreigners war-camp. Even a
child of three feet knows how to be
of such conduct and thinks
f beneath contempt to talk of such ex-
1ibition. Even little boys and girls
would laugh at and regard it madness
20 believe the words of such lunatics
Ind outcasts. And who of the civil
lied world with public spirit and eyes
# justice place any reliance on the
alse agreements and wild absurdities?
Here is point too plain for any
Suppose Japan is an abso-
ute monarchy and few of her traitor
JUS subjects enter into secret and ar
,itrary treaty transferring all her ma
ional rights to Russia. Her political
,arties. other classes of people, the
Whole nation viii never acquiesce In
uch an arrangement. 1t will merely
'e mad convention by few traitors
md lunatics and not even the stupid
nd barbarous Russians would accept