Show J i I 3 TIlE THE PASSING OP KOKKA I Minneapolis Tribune Japan has placed her Iron heel acel heelon on Korea OIl and thero there is little expectation that on any nation will date dare to raise its voice olce In ht behalf of or the tho weaker eaker nation Korea during the Japanese Russo-Japanese TIus Japanese o-Japanese war came caine under the latter's domina domination lion and she he has practically controlled affairs and adopted a to which the Korean KOlean emperor an and his subjects objected In vain in iu fact the tho Portsmouth treaty gave Japan a free hand in dealing Korea Koren The latter latte sent a delegation recently to Tho The Hague Iague peace conference to pl present present- their thell case unknown to Japan and the latter altel countr country at once forced the tho Korean lorean emperor to abdicate and will appoint a puppet in rats ills place Upon learning of oC tho lie ab abdication of oC their a recent dispatch says a riot occurred at Seoul fie he Korean capital and the Japanese troops beat tC f the rioters into subjection after 25 Japanese soldiers lad tad been killed Durin During almost the whole of oC tho thu known history of he Korean peninsula the tho rulers and the tho people have confessed subjection to a a. foreign overlord That y was a n shadowy hadow one at times clines nn and 1 J Korea torea orea was ryas Co for 1 a 3 ong time left to its own ova devices and it Il is doubtful if i r land could much lower in fn the mire of stagnation tad nd corruption than Korea has fallen tallen The government o a nominal autocracy supported by br of the grossest sort the people in iii the tho depths jf Jr f poverty crt and physical decline the tho natural resources of oC ho he c country unla almost h wholly 0 II untouched It would seem o 0 o the modern mind high time line that some sonic exterior power amo arno to infuse e a breath of ot life liCe Into this forgotten and hid ten len land Whether lether the Koreans want to be reformed and whether In hi the long run they will be the better or 01 tho the substitution of one orie sort of oC tyranny and Ion 1011 for Cor that to which the they had become accustomed by bynan nan nany centuries of oC use is hardly a practical question AI iU ill it events In the present stage of affairs there appears o be no escape from the doom of or extinction that han hangs bangs s iver ver Korea n as a separate I kingdom From Front tJ the e moment that the tite treat treaty of or Portsmouth rave arc Japan a free rree hand in dealing with Korea the tho isle ible fate Cate of oC the tho country countr has been plain plait to all men Had lot of tho the fortunes of or war made Japan the instrument of or loom oom it would have been Russia A weak unorganized ind nd backward country could have no hope in such a posh posh- lon lion as that In which Korea was placed and the process s sf if f being crushed between the he upper and anel nether mill mill- tone lone Is now being carried out Japan n will soon soon reduce reduce uce the to the position of or Formosa Japans Japan's political necessities are arc paramount to Koreas Korea's national aspirations and lS s pitiful the fate Cate may ma be of The uThe Land of or tho rho Morning aim Jalin alm no mid hands will be raised to stay Japan The mikado rill nil do his will in Korea undisturbed and Korean protests rid nd appeals at Tho Tao Hague Hasue will fall faU on deaf cars I |