Show lull RE OF APS OVIR aw senator stone of missouri declared Decla rei that from a korean standpoint t the h e situ situation at on Is pathetic seoul S L ott dvoria ivor 1 senator william I 1 stone of hlis hristou tou I 1 who a w week pek investigating tile the kortan 8 situation i lia tion wis received in audience ou on wednes day by the and ami the retired emperor under tinder maique ROB chaper conage senator stone in fit summing up the situation said from a korean standpoint the sit elt nation is pat pathetic hetle for the first time in my life I 1 have seen the mailed hand of a foreign power pomer matred lessly oti onci a conquered red reI people ono one emperoti lias bas been forced to abdicate to wale make place for a weakling liling goth both are held in practical imprisonment by their conquerors there la is an armed japanese force about the palace and koreans are denied the right of access or communication with tho the ull all save the suppliant ministers doing the he bidding of marquis ito and who dare not show themselves in the reeta slee a tB of seoul reoul without a japan ese tary guard no man kocean oi 01 foi elgner can have an audience with aith the hie emperor except by and in the presence of marquis ito tito the emperor and his hie father ate aie in thir own palace anil the inai quia la Is the real ruler the Is a despotism of foreigners upheld by a military foi boire cc line of korea ate aie over awed ond and su subdued blued and well they hey may be fol foi lie he who fulps them Is as ruthless and as aa arbit arbitrary iary as a savage and Is it Is pitiful to note the hopeless ness and helplessness helpless neBS of 0 this unhappy af pf people ople no american could wit witness iless this his national tragedy without a feeling of pio profound found pity toi foi the victims but unhappily in fit biow of the I 1 the Anic american rican I 1 p potest Is measurably fit al fenced from an ined national stand point the of the Ja parise Is to boien and make it a gate way for upon china the chinese policy of japan Is one of territorial and commercial comme iclal agg ligament and fand this policy japan Is carri ing mith a ruthless ruthlessness un in modem times right Is IR bused based on might while the looks on indifferently dut but history is surdy being mado here which in its ultimate and intended consequences reaches fir beyond the confines of this coun conn try and involves Ini olves fir more thin tho the destiny of this unhappy empire soma day there hero will be there must lie a reckoning |