| OCR Text |
Show oo Licensed Vice And Opium Trade Now in Korea PRINCETON, N. J. Oct. 15 Charges that Japan hai Introduced licensed vlc and the opium traffic into Korea and has sought to prevent Korea from puo-llshlns1 puo-llshlns1 the facts throughout the world, were mode by Dr Synpinan Rhee. president presi-dent of the "reunblk of Korea." in an address tonight before Princeton university uni-versity students. It was tho first of a series of addresses which Dr. Rhee will deliver on a tour of several large cities. "Our cause, the cause of Korea." said Dr Rhee. 'awaits the international publicity pub-licity that will advise the world of Korea's .situation. We have faith In the people of the world. In the people of the t'nlted States and in the international Justice. It la. theroforo. our purpose and our message to advise the world of tho-e facts. "Japan has sought to prevent our publishing pub-lishing the facta to the world." he added he suppressed all the newspapers, censored cen-sored all the mail, seized telephone and telcgraoh lines ohtained control of the cables and does not allow the Koreans to leave the country, fearing that th-v might tell the facts. Nevertheless, tho facta have leaked out here and (there, and Ihe world is beginning to reall-.c and lo know that an awful crime hav : been committed.' j Asserting that the Japanese governot general is supreme In Korea. belhg) only j responsible tu the emperor of Japan, the Korean representative declared that th( rule of the governor general "Is. therefore, there-fore, like the government of Japan, militaristic mili-taristic to the core." "Aside for the material and polltieil evils of Japanese rule In Korea," h. seited, "the moral and religious aspect is simply abhorrent io the Korean oco-1 oco-1 pie. Licensed vice and opium irafiu ire 1 I introduced In Korea and are fostered and encouraged by the Imperial governmctr of Japan. Thousands of acres of popplo are planted and the products can be sol-J only to thp government All the products prod-ucts from this Illicit traffic and licensed vice go Into the coffers of the Mikado, while the government expenses are paid by the direct taxes "Japan has no rlghl to govern Korea In any manner, good or bad We hav the right to govern ourselves. It Is our countr. Japan has overreached her self. Her greed and her .selfishness and her total lack of moral sense is agMn her undoing " 00 |
