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Show if , KOREANS AND THE JAPS 1 What the Conquered People Think About the Moral Quality of Jap Promise. ( j The Koreans &r so constituted that ' no merely superficial change can par I u unit Tin their Bistury CoeaVTi writer In the Christian Herald. Maty ;. tempted such changes, but always wlto , the most unsatisfactory results. They , have learned better, and they will now ' accept no change that does not proui ' Is a fundamental reform. They ad ' 1 nil t that the Japanese have dona many ' wonderful things and bare effected j many startling changes; but they da 1 not believe that Japan has gotten to J the bedrock o." western civilisation, nor j ever will, ucill the revolution ahall thow aigns of being a moral, aa well as a merely material one. The treatment they have received at the hands of Japan has not as yet warranted them In placing faltb In the moral quality of Japan's promises The Korean does not often formulate bis Idea, but underneath the surface, perhaps only subconsciously, they rea lite that Japanese feudalism, which lies at the root of all her military and social achievements. Is a feudalism without chivalry. It Is lacking In that altruUm which made Lurope a willing missionary to the whole world They believe that Japan has accepted only those forces which -111 make for physl cal power. Whether they are right io this the world must decide for Itself. I only state the fact that tbo Koreans so believe |