The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-20
OUTRAGE UPON
LITTLE KOREA
American Educator Comes
Home to Tell Truth About
Japanese Injustice.
INSULTED AND DEBAUCHED
FLAeRANT CRIME AGAINST CIV
ILIZATIoN.

New York, July 19-Declaring that
bauching the Koreans and fast tend
ing TO complete eradication of Korea
as state, Homer B. Hulburt, for
many years engaged in educational
work in Korea, is here on a mission
from Korea to bring to the attention
of the United States government and
the people of this country the condi-
lions i'm Korea under the Japanese
protectOrate. Mr.. Hulburt arrived to-
day upon the steamship Deutschland
with his family after a two months
journey from Seoul. He said the send
ing of the Korean delegation to The
Hague had been made a preteXt of by
Japan to force the abdication of the
emperor and so gain further control
over Korea.
Mr. Hulburt went to Korea over
twenty years ago to engage in edu-
cational work at the request of the
Korean government.
Insuited and Debauched.
Korea is thoroughly outraged"
said Mr.. Hulburt, "over the injustice
which the japanese are heaping upon
her. and the Koreans are angered be
yond words. Still they feel the dread
Koreans look upon the Japanese as
savages. They are insulted and de-
bauched. but can do nothing. 1 have
seen a Jap boy rush out into the street
and belabor a Korean gentleman with
a stick and laugh. The Korean could
do nothing, for protests to the Japan
csc would avail nothing. The Japan
csc have seized their salt works, driv-
en- away the Korean fishermen from
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form of profitable industry in the
country foi themselves. The Koreans
viii tell you that the japanese are
striving to drive them from the cOun-
try that they may occupy il for them
selves. Japan wants Korea for herself
and while the government at Toxic is
openly declaring that Korea is open for
the trade OF the world, she is seeking
by every possible secret act to aid her
merchants by creating conditions
which Will drive every foreign mer-
chant out Of the country.
Japan is debauching the morals of
the Koreans by selling them morphine
in great quantities. Especially is this
true in northern Korea
Despair in Seoul.
Mr. -Hulburt said that the accession
of the crown prince to the throne
AOuiu itlCci IO tildliSt lOE the better
in the intOleTable conditions. Despair
reigns at the emperor's palace i'm
Seoul, and while the emperor, who has
now abdicated desired to create i'm
proved conditions for his people he
knew that he was utterly unable to
do anything. Mr.. Hulburt said the
emperor's last almost despairing at
tempt was sending a delegation to The
Hague to protest to the nations that
HE,a To-
was Illegal and that Korea had never
acquiesced in her seizure two years
ago.
The crown prince. who now succeeds
10 the throne, Mr.. Hulburt said is a
perfect prototype of his father, a man
of good education and q disposition to
be fair and honest for the material
well-being of his people, but somewhat
lacking in those qualities of resolute-
ness and executive ability that differ
entiates a natural ruler of men and the |
cOmplacent head of a state whose only
qualification for Office is the right of /
birth
Korea never consented to the jap
anese taking control of her territory"
continued Mr.. Hulburt. 1.-THE Japan /
csc caused it to be reported to the I
powers that Korea had acquiesced to |
the prOtectorate, but that is not the /
- oiiN II Nc'9 W BAoLtSt against TINS ]
that the emperor sent a delegation to /
The Hague This led to Japan bring 1
ing about the abdication
The treaty between the United 1
States and Korea, which Japan guar !
anteed to preserve, will not stand i'm /
the way of Japan's ambition to gain
exclusive commercial mastery over
Korea. Japan will effect a customs /
union with Korea unless she is checked /
that will shut out all industrial com /
petition. The aim of Japan today Is |
to drive out American and British 1
trade i'm Korea. Every one in Korea /
knows IL and every EngIishman and
American in Seoul will tell YOU of
Japan's cutrages upon the Korean peo-
pie. Had the protectorate which ia
pan placed over Korea been attended
by honesty of purpose and the forma-