Show DISCOURAGING EMBEZZLERS EM EMBEZZLERS OF OP PUBLIC MONEY are finding the climate of Korea far from salubrious The minister of finance whose very name bRine Ye Yo Yok sounds like a strangling stran fit fit took a no notion no tIcs tion the other day to check up his rev revenue revenue collectors Their accounts been looked into for a long iong time and the extravagant manner of living into I which several of the officials had fallen tallen excited suspicion Results justified the worst fears of oC Ye Yo To Yak Yok He discovered that the tax gatherers had neglected to turn over to the treasury treasury treas tress ury my the neat sum of yen or about The fact that they managed to hold out so large Jarge an amount of money in a little principality lIty like lIk Korea is sufficient evidence that they had been having things their own wn way for some years Yok Yak was indig indignant indignant nant naturally Perhaps his Indignation Indignation indignation tion was heightened because none cf ef f the rascals was thoughtful enough to divide the plunder Anyway he called the emperors at attention attention attention to it and an suggested that every gentleman who ho had stolen as much as 1000 be separated from his head The emperor very promptly agreed greed and the lord high executioner of Korea will soon be advertising advertising fo for an indefinite number of assistants Such crude methods on the part of the sim simple simple pie Orientals emphasize the need n ed of 0 missionary work As an example of our humane h mane meth methods methods methods we call roU attention to the pardon of Hartley Bartley of Nebraska after serving only four years for stealing In nearly every newspaper the humanitarian reads with eyes eeg the story of ot executive eutie e clemency exercised on behalf of thieves of large degree Only the misguided individuals Individuals who indulge in petty peculations are punished in this land and of liberty lIber The Koreans are certainly in need of en enlightenment enlightenment |