Eureka Reporter | 1904-08-12 | Page 5 | The Stupidest Nation

the dest nat on the wanderer leaves corea with a feeling of having seen how the stupid est nat on of created men can also be the happiest or could were con editions only a trifle more propitious B the evil star of the comeans it has been arranged that their land Is to be the switzerland of the far east a territory to be fought over forever but one that no nation can either itself possess or allow any other to ho corea is the victim of her own geographical advantages and the impressionist carries away with him the picture of a people amy patient dumb with the callous ness of despair that et has the se cret of happiness in its power to ex tract joy from the most tory material a nation stunned by the oppression of the ages out of all moral and mental vigor yet still stout and capable perhaps of both a nation of sturdy apathetic sheep whose silent indifference beneath the driving lash of the world may some day be found unexpectedly to have its limits or its possibilities the living age