Show SENT OUT PRIOR I ITO TO State Department Receives Pamphlet Entitled Adminis Administrative Administrative Reforms in Korea COMES FROM MARQUIS ITO JAPANESE CONSIDER THEM THEMSELVES THEMSELVES SELVES PHILANTHROPISTS Washington Aug far eastern castern malls just arrived contained a pamphlet Issued from the Japanese residency gen general general eral of Korea entitled Administrative Reforms In Korea to vindicate the work the Japan Japanese e in the Hermit Kingdom under the authority j by the agreement of lOOt 1901 whereby Japan was constituted ad riser to Korea document treats of the financIal difficulties that confronted Marquis Ito at the outset owing to the He inadequacy of the Korean exchequer to bear the cost of reform He succeeded In raising a loan from the Japanese Indus Industrial Industrial trial bank ot of yen en guaranteed d b by the customs receIpts bearing interest at C per cent and sold at 00 yn yen per yen The mOley realized was distributed in the reconstruction of In build ing waterworks establishing an educational s system Stem the creation of banks and erection of hospitals It is said the Ko Korean Korena rena rean roads W were re totally unlit unfit f for r hor horse antI and carria carriage e travel sQ so that It became necessary to allot J yen en in laying out four great roads to traverse the r re regions glons gions of best promise and connect the best harbors and railway centers Education Limited Prior to the residency there was in iii vogue ogue a Confucian educational method metho l whereby a village dominee called about him the children of the neighborhood and taught them the rudiments of and writing There were of these schools and at Seoul an institute of higher Confucian learning A prima primary school or promulgated in 1006 was a 11 dead letter and the middle grade schools In Seoul with the exception of one In for foreign eign languages existed In name only An entirely new system has be beta n d first importance being heing given to disseminating common education under Japan instructors The existing ho hospitals defee live tive in management and limited in ac accommodations and equipment have be been n consolidated into the Great Korean boa hos hospital pital The police d department which had really been in triplicate has been uni fled fied Reform Measures Of the remarkable attempt at purifies purIfica tion of tile the imperial court the pamphlet after pal paInting a strikIng picture Of the corruption ani iloth ie r en uJ 1 l l f C CIn In court elides there were up nj doubt some who at first felt alarm at this radl radi c el l tU n of but the sterling ln ceri y of tIle the resident generals becoming gradually bettEr known th force of resentment has slackened until no voice Is now heard in active lion tion The way In h justice has luu ministered in Korea it is stated is too revolting to all sense gense of decent decency to b be told In detail Bribery General The TIte country has not yet a attained th thit state when the executive and Judicial de departments departments are Important so the system of f justice Is regarded as a thing to be farmed out bribery is general innocent people are convicted and their property confiscated and the gUilty are liberated All this sa says the pamphlet Is being re formed b by the Japanese The Tho work of reforming the currency system has pr grossed gressed the gold standard being and private coinage prohibited while th circulation of notes has been encouraged d dand and a n new revenue system adopted In conclusion the pamphlet says the Japanese have hae provIded the Koreans a code of laws Jaws among other things safe safeguarding safeguarding guarding the transfer or of real estate for formerly many merly any prot protection regulating the development nt of native mines provid Ing for the protection of immigrants anti and encouraging the development of productive tive industries |