The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-29
BISHOP HARRIS
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the course which the league took with
Durham W. Stevens before ne was as
sassinated. 1t will be remembered
that the Koreans called at Stevens
hotel in San Francisco with a copy OF
the San Francisco Call, asked him if
his interview in it was correctly re-
ported, and when he acknowledged the
interview. attacked him. A cable mes
sage from Honolulu last thursday
quoted an article saying Harris had
said certain things, and closed with
the words
! WILL YOU ASK HIM"
The discovery that such a message
had been sent caused considerable
alarm, and long before the Korea dock
ed at San Francisco this morning, Bish-
op Harris mad cable advices on the sub
ject
One message was sent from here to
| be taken to the Korea by the pilot
telling Harris what he might expect.
The following from the Chronicle of
March % shows how exactly this course
of action talies with what was done
with Stevens:
"A mass meeting of the Korean pa
triotic and education societies of San
Francisco was held and four prominent
members, Eal Lee, c. X. Chung, Y M.
Moon and T. S. Choy, all enthusiastic
and intelligent young men, were APP
rn Cd To int inN1y
Stevens to ascertain his views as ex-
pressed in the press
The four patriots called shortly
after o'clock last night at the Fair
mont while the strains of soft music
hoated from the balcony through the
large lobby and the after dinner
groups were engrossed in small talk
in the luxurious chairs. Lee went to
the clerk and asked for Stevens, who
came down stairs to meet the delega-
ton. He walked with them to a room
at the extreme north end of the cor
ridor, where the party was soon en-
gagged in earnest conversation.
The spokesman of the committee
was Lee, who speaks the vernacular
fluently He asked Stevens if he had
made the statements attributed to him
in the press, and the diplomatic adviser
replied in the affirmative The interro-
cations took the form of a cross-exa-
limitation, Stevens being questioned
categorically on each sentence. He
added more about the great work Japan
is doing for Korea and how well the
Koreans love the Japanese Government
and policy in their home land
AT this stage OF the interview Stevens
was murderously attacked.
The man who led in the assault, Eal
Lee, gave the following written expla-
nation:
City, March %, 190S.-To the Editor
of the San Francisco Chronicle
Dear Sir: | am a Korean and my name
is Eal Lee and living at 1854 Greenwich
street. city. Although 1 am not able
to write very well in English, l dare
to explain to you the statement of ID.
w. Stevens, which was published in
, your paper of 21st inst. on the page
one, under the title of Japanese Con-
troll a Benefit to Korea so the people
will not be mistaken.
In the first place, Mr.. Stevens said:
Korean people have been greatly be-
MELTED by Japanese protection and that
they are beginning to look more favor
! ably on it," but according to what
= learned of the papers from Korea re-
Gently, Mr.. Stevens statement is but a
! false.
Since the Japanese began to control
e Korea against the Koreans will, they
killed thousands OF thousands of peo-
pie who were rightly resisting them
from robbing their properties and do
ing cruelties. So they had to take uI
arms against them from all parts of the
country, and they are fighting harder
still.
To these can neither be called the
benefit Of the Koreans since the Japa-
nese control nor the Koreans looking
favorably on it. In the second place ne
said: THAT the Korean peasants have
welcomed the Japanese"
In this place, can not say that Mr.
Stevens is only wrong, but it is an I'M
truth; because the most Koreans in the
fight with Japanese are the peasants
who deserted their homes and families
to join the struggle for the safety OF
the life of Korea, which Japan try To