The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-11

that promiss without sseiug to t that the government did what 1t promised. j:
 Now. -ssk with sil seriousnsss what the moral effect of such . regims must be. on the Corsan who has heard that the Japa- nese are ciyfiixsd? He can come to but one .conclrsion- -nsmsly. that. esvilintion means fhe obtSining enoush brute force and wolf cunninx to bs able to rob other peo- pie with dmpunity, This. to my certain knowiedxs. Is what the coreans are learns
 Every corean smpIoye of the 'Japauess Is beginhihg to ape the. insolence and bras- sadocio of his masters and the former mildness and geniaiity of the corean is fast giving place to . trucuience the source of which is perfectly apparent. have had this called to my attention by mora than one foreigner in Corea. q;
 seIllns Morphine to .Corcans. s
 I have alluded before to the sale of nor phine by Japanese in Corea. Such thing would bring instant and severe punishment in Japan. The Japanese themselves shun the drug as they would the leprosy. but when it comes to selling to mere Coreans 1t becomes altogether laudabie. There is biz money in it. What other argument is nec- essary?
 I was credibiy informed that . single shop la Pyeng-yang sold thirty yen worth of morphine a day to Cofeenss for hypo- dermic injection know that one foreign hospital in the north had forty cases in q single month of coreans who were despsr~ ateiy trying to get rid of the ugly habit and know of one case where . foreiener caught . Japanese red handed In the act of selling to Corean and when he reported tho case to the Japanese authorities they said:--'We let him off this time for he promises not to do it aEain.s ,
 This traffic shows the low level of Japan ese consideration for the Corssn. He is good for nothing except to make money out of. even if you kill him In the process.
 NBut 1t is not morphine aione by which the Japanses debauch the Coreans. Very many Japanese go to corea without their families The result Is that 1t has become . favorite harvest field for Japanese dis-i orderly women, who have crossed in numer- nus numbers. Not content with their wages of shame from their own countrymen. they have spread throughout the country uncon- trolled by the authorities and have offered to the rural population of Corea opportuni- ties for vice before unheard Of in the benin sula. The good natured Corean Is no match for such an antagonist and readily suc- cumbs to her allurements and 1t is the -evi- dence of more than one foreiKner in Corea that these women are doing more harm to the Corean people than all the good the so-caiied reforms will effect. z Vice Haunted in Seoul.
 The Corean people. low as their standard of morality. is are scandalized by the pres. ence in Seoul of an enormous palace of vice. which. set in a conspicuous place bla5ss out with its thousand lights over the city at night, the most conspicuous object in the city The Coreans are immoral enough in all conscience. but they have the grace to hide their immortality away from sight.
 Then again you will find everywhere in the country Japanese tricksters with little gambling devices. which are so pstently fraudulent that one wonders why the Co., reans will play. and yet up they come and stake their money. with only one chance in six of winning double money. They play simply for the excitement and not out of cupidity, but the Japanese make them pay a shameful price for their fun. I doubt if such things would be allowed on . street in Japan.
 Before summing up the moral influence of the Japanese upon the Coreans shall have to give certain other details which must be reserved for another article.