The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24
Righteous Army" ORGANIZED
to Drive Out Japanese.
Issued to All Loyal Ma
tives of the Country.
SHOOTING OF STEVENS
Is Believed to Be the Result of
This Agitation.
organization Is Said to Number
Over a Million.

San Francisco, March 24.-rhe
Call today says:
The attempt to assassinate Durham
W. Stevens. the political adviser of
the Korean council of state. it is now
SAID, was the result of carefully
Planned conspiracy. inspired i'm
medlately by a manifesto to the
Korean righteous army" callinx
upon all loyal Koreans to consecrate
inmate all Japanese.
RMS manifesto reached here on the
same ship which brought Steyene
The proclamation is signed by Cen
eral e. Yie Lin Yung, general of the
korean righteous army" and Is in
MANIFESTO.
TO all Koreans in all parts of the
Loyalty to his nation and fealty to
his parents is the primal law of mans
nature. The right to live and the
right to die for duty is also the rule
of nature.
but alas, grievous times have come
upon Korea, our compatriots. We
who have been educated by our 500
year old dynasty and raised up by
our 5000 year old ancestry. have
barbarous savage islanders-the jap
anese They have swooped upon
our country and are induIgine
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 abdicated our
emperor, destroyed our villages, killed
our brethren, robbed our land, seized
our benefits and are the enemy not
for they have violated the policy OF
humanity.
"Compatriots, we must unite and
consecrate ourselves to our land to
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 SOL
diers
THE Japanese may compare the
rising of our righteous army to the at
tempt of an insect TO move a 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. We
will sacrifice our lives to their guns
and swords and as the front men
fall, the men behind them will take
their places. Defeated today we will
again attack on the morrow until our
vow to exterminate the Japanese or
die has been accomplished.
"E. VIE LIN YUNG, General Korean
Righteous Army.
"(Date) 4240 after Tan Koon."
l. w. Paik, national president of
the Korean Reform league, in COM
mending the action Of the conspira-
tors is quoted as follows:
Stevens met the fate that comes
to all betrayers," he said "He came
into Korea from America, which we
have always regarded as our best
friend among the nations. He be-
trayed US. He told us that the ma
ton we most hate must be accepted
as our master, and he told us that the
two Koreans most despised In their
own Land, were the only ones to lead
us as we should go. But we are not
fools nor dogs to submit
"Who are the two Koreans most
hated in their own land?" Pafk was
asked.
"Yee Wan Wong, the prime nninfz-
ter, who also Is a japanese spy and
Song Pung Chun, the minister of
agriculture he replied
"And they will be laid low. too,~
he added.
There are said to be 100 Koreans
in the twro revolutionary leagues here
and these are working with NIL
lion who have fed into Siberia and
Russia to rouse the courage of their
countrymen to the point of turning
on Japan and driving her out of the
land, which the patriots here say, Is
being robbed and pillaged by the
brown cOuOuerers.