Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-25
A MANIFESTO.
Corean righteous Army"
Calls General Slaughter
Of All Japanese --Contident Of
an ultimate Victory.
Man Who Shot Stevens Makes State.
ment.--Ready For Penalty.

San Francisco, March 24.-The Call
today says: The attempt to assassin
ate Durham w. Stevens, the political
adviser of the Corean Council of State.
it is now said, was the result of a
carefully Matched conspiracy, inspired
immediately byna manifesto of the Co
rean "Rightetns Army" calling upon
loyal Coreans to consecrate themselves
to a holy war and exterminate all
Japanese.
This manifesto reached here on the
same ship which brought Stevens. The
procla mation was signeu by General
F. Vie Lin Yang, general Of the CO.
rean righteous Army" and is i'll part
as follows:
"Manifesto:
ITO all Coreans in all parts of the
world:
Loyalty to his nation and fealty to
his parents is tho primal law of man.
The right to live and the right to die
for duty is also the rule of nature.
But alas! Grievous times have come
upon Corea, our compatriots. We who
have been educated by our 500 year-old
dynasty and raised up by 1000 year old
ancestry have come under the domin-
alton of the barbarouS savage island
ers-the japanese. They have swooped
on our country and are indulging their
barbarous appetiteS with a cruel heart.
1t is SO much we could not say it with
our tongues nor could we write it with
our pens. The japanese have ahdicated
our Emperor. destroyed our villages.
killed our brethren, robbed our land,
seized our benefits and are the enemy
not only of Corea but of all the world
for they have violated the peace of
humanity.
"COmpatriotS. we must unite and
consocrate ourselves TO our land and
restore our independence. We are sure
our God will help us We must all do
our best to kill all Japanese, their
spies. allies and barbarous soldiers
''Tho Japanese may compare the ris-
ing of our righteous army to the at
tcml't of an insect to move d big tree,
but right is on our side and we are
confident that in the end we shall be
victorious. opposing their treachery
with the justice Of our cause Defeated
today we will again attack on the
morrow until our VOW to eXtermnate
the japanese or die has been accom-
plished.
"F. VIE LIN YOUNG,
General Corean Righteous Army.
"Date) 42i0 After Tan Koon"
|. w. Paik, national president of the
Corean Reform League, in commend
ing the action of the conspiratorS, is
quoted as follows:
ha f.fo %
all betrayers He came into Corea from
America. which we have always re-
gardad as our best friend among the
nations. He betrayed us. He told us
that the nation we most hate must be
accepted as our master and he told us
that the two Coreans most despised in
their own land were the only ones to
lead W as we should go But we are
not fools nor dogs to submit"
"Who are the two Coreans most hat
ed in their own land" Paik was asked.
"Yee Wan Wong, the prime minister.
who also is a Japanese spy, and Song
PunE Chun, the minister of agricul-
ture," he replied "And they will be
laid low, too" he added
There are said to be 700 Coreans in
the Revolutionary League here and
these are working with a million more
who have fled into Russia and Sibe-
ria to arouse the courage of their coun-
trymen to the point Of turning upon
japan and driving her out of their
land. which the patriots here say, is
being robbed and pillaged by the con-
querors.
|. W. Chang, Corean. who yesterday
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