Show ADMINISTRATIVE RAIl YE REfORMS IN KOREA Japanese Residency General Is Issues Issues Issues sues Pamphlet P Vindicating Japans J p r W Work rk 41 FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES State nt of Country ns l l In lit l to All I filings Go Gorl ov o rl Ui Washington Aug 0 Tha far eastern malls mi ls Just arrived contained n a pamphlet let lei Issued front tho the Japanese residency rc general gen ell ral al of or Korea urea entitled Adminis Administrative In Korea Kor a designed to vindicate the ho work worl orl of ot time the Japanese In the tho Hermit kingdom under tile tho auth authority ry conferred by the agreement of at 1004 1504 l O whereby hereby It tt was as cot con advisor to Korea The Tho docu document document ment treats of ot the thu that confronted Marquis Ito 10 at al the oil ot ol owing to tile the the Inadequacy of oC the tha Korean exchequer to bear the lie post cost st of reform Ves Ie e succeeded In itt a aloan I aloan loan from the tue Japanese Industrial Indu bank butk of 91 C yen yea en guaranteed by the tile customs receipts bearing Interest at 6 jS per cent and arid sold nt at SO yen cn per 10 yell n The Tho money realized In the thu reconstruction of ot roads In building waterworks establishing nn an educational system the creation or of banks and erection or no It Ils Is said tire Korean road were woo totally un unlit IH lit l tor or hor horse e and amid Ind carriage travel vol so that It became to tr allot Ilot 1600 1000 o O yen In laying out tour four great roads to traverse the regions of ot best hest promise mind connect the time best besl harbors rs and rail rall rn wn ll centers Prior to 10 the residency there was waa In vogue n a 1 Confucian educational method whereby n a village called about him limo children of tho h hU neighborhood and taught them tile the rudiments or oC rending and writing There were vere of these schools and ut tit Seoul an Institute of oC higher Confucian learning A primary school ordinance e In 1905 letter hotter and thi middle Tirade schools ls In Seoul with Ih tue tle exception of one In a 11 I foreign language existed In name only An AI entirely posY jiow system line has been etab established first Importance being ghen tn tp disseminating dl common education un tm under der Japanese Instruction The h existing hospitals ler defective in management t and limited In tn accommodations rind and equipment l n been heen consolidated In Into Into into to the Great Groat Korean hospital The police d which had really renlY been jeen In triplicate has hus been boon unified Of OC the remarkable attempt nt at lt purl pun purification of the tho Imperial court the Pamphlet after painting a n striking picture of oC the time corruption and sloth that existed S the tho reform measures adopted adapted and amid says In rn court circles there were no doubt some sante who iio nt first felt fel alarm nt at this radical turn tur of ot affairs II Cal Il but hilt tho the sterlIng stellIng sincerity of or the resident gen generals becoming gradually jotter hotter beter known the lie force of at resentment has hns ins since slackened until no voice is isnow 1 now nosy no heard In active opposition The Tho way In which Justice haB hI ha been administered In Korea U it I Is stated Is too revolting to nil all ni sense of oC decency to be told In irm detail Tho The country has hOR not yet et attained that state when the executive anti and In Jn departments are arc Important s ati 0 J JIn tw thui In system af at C Justice Is la regarded as IIA a a athing thing to lo be formed farmed out lut bribery Is gen general oral eral Innocent people are arc convicted ind 01 the tho property and nna time the t guilty are liberated All Al title flits says SIS ho timo pamphlet Is hit being reformed by tile tho The Thai work ork of oC reforming the tho currency system stem has progressed tho gold standard being adopted and private sate vate coinage prohibited while the cir circulation of ot notes line has been encouraged rInd ind a it 1 new ne revenue system adopted In Tn conclusion thin tho pamphlet says Hays Hn R tho thin Japanese have provided tho tile Koreans with wih a n code COd of laws among amon other oilier things safeguarding thin tho transfer of oC real 1101 I formerly without any ion tion ton regulating the development of ot native mineR mines providing for time the the lon tion of q t Immigrants anti encouraging he the Ih development of at productive Indus Ties h |