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Show KOREA PROCLAIMS INDEPENDENCE Proclamation Declares 20,000.-000 20,000.-000 United People Are Behind It. FREEDOM A JUST CLAIM Command All Things to Be Done Decently and Without With-out Violence. SAN rRANCISCO, April 2 -Sons' jTyung Hi. whoso name hands the list I I of signers of the Korean proclamation I of independence. js head of a new Korean Ko-rean sen. known as the ."Cbun-Do-'Ko " or "nature cult." His follower" are reputed to number hundreds of thousands. His incom. l - ud to have been great and until recently he appeared ap-peared to flourish under Japanese pro lection and encouragement. "This work of ours is in behalf oil truth, religion and life." the proclama-lion proclama-lion declares "undertaken at th.- rt i M Of iir proplo, in ord r to rnak1 known their desire for liberty. Let all things be done decently and In or der. so that our bettarioT to 'he rrv ru ma no nonorame and upright ! The proclamation declares that '"having bark of us 20.it00.000 of united, . loyal people." and '."Ofj years of hls-tor" hls-tor" the signers "herewith proclaim the independence of Korea and the liberty lib-erty of the Korean people." ' This Is the elear leading of God. I the moving principle of the present age. the whole human race's Just i Claim H is something that cannot he suppressed by any means." The text of ih- proclamation fob' Iowa: "We heremih proelaim the Indepen lence of Korea and the liberty of the Korean people. We tell It to the world ' in witness of the equality of all na-J '.ions and we pass it on to our pos-j pos-j ferity as their Inherent righl. "We make this proclamation, having hav-ing hack of us BtOOO years of history' and 20.000,000 of a united, loyal p. o-ple. o-ple. We take this step t0 Insure to ! our children lor all time to come, per sonal liberty In accord with the av.ak ening consciousness of this new era. 1 This Is the clear leading of Cod, the moving principle of the present age, ihe whole human race's just claim It is something that cannot he stamp ed out. or stifled, or gagged. or sup-i pressed by any means. "Victims of an older age, when brute 1 force and the spirit of plunder ruled. we nave eome alter tnese long tnou-sands tnou-sands of years to experience the agony of ten years of foreign oppression, with even loss of the right to 1 1 o . every restriction on the freedom of, thought, every damage done to the dignity dig-nity of life, every opportunity lost fori a share In the intelligent advance of the age In which we live. "Assuredly, if the defects of the pn-' are to be rectified. If the agony of the present is to be unlosaed. if the, future oppression is to be avoided. f thought is lo be sei tree. If right of action Is to be giv. n a place, if we are to attain to any way of progress. If we are to deliver our children from the painful, shameful heritage, if we are to leave blessing and happiness Intact In-tact for those who succeed us. the first' of all necessary things is the clear cut1 Independence of our pop!e. What cannot our twenty millions do. every man with sword in heart. In this day! when human nature and consclenve M m.ikliir u ct.in.l for tnilli nnil right'' What barrier can we not break, what purpose can we not accomplish? "We have no desire to accuse Japan of falsehood v. hen she c harged China with breaking her treaty of 1GPG as an, excuse to absorb us. nor to single out specially the teachers in the schools j or government officials who treat the! heritage of our anccstora as a colony' Of their own. and our people and their civilization as a nation of savages, finding delight onlv In beating us down and bringing us under their heel "We have no wish to find special fault with Japan's lack of fairness or her contempt of our civilization and! the principles on which her state rests, i we. who have greater cause to reprimand repri-mand ourselves, need not spend precious pre-cious time in finding fault with o'her. neither need we. who require so ur gently to build for the future, spend, useless hours over what is past and gone Our urgent need today. Is the' setting up of this house of ours, and not a discussion of who has broken' it down, or what has caused Its ruin.; Our work Is to clear the future of de- fects in accord Wfttl the earnest dlc- tales of conscience. Let us not be filled with bitterness or resentment over past agonies, or past occasions for anger. "Our part Is to Influence the Japanese Jap-anese government, dominated as it ! by the old idea of brute fore hnh thinks to run counter to reason aud universal law. so that It will change act honestly and in accord with th. principles of right and truth. "The result of annexation brought about wlthovit rny conference th the Korean people is that Japanese, Indifferent In-different to us. u.e every kind of partiality par-tiality of their own. and by a false set of figures ohow a profit and loss account ac-count between ua two peoples roost ( untrue, digging a trench of ererlaaf- , inc resentment deencr and decoer the . farther 'hey go. "Ought not the way of enlighten ed courage to be to correct the evils of the pat by ways that are sincere and by true smpath and friendly feeling make a new world In which the two pople will be equally blessed To bind by force twenty millions of resentful Koreans will m'n not only Iota of paee forever for this1 part of the far ra. but also will mean for the center of dancer as well as safety, the four hundred millions of China A suspicion of China and n ever derornlnc hatred From this all the rest of the et will suffer Today' Korean Indrpendencr would mean not also It would mean Japan's depar'ure from an evil way and exaltation to tb place of true protestor of the east. J thooahi conn from no minor reit . mnt but from a large nop- for h fu lure " A new ra wak bfore our eyea, J th old world of force gone, and the new world of rbleuD Od ' truta i hnr. of the eaprneoce) and traail of the old world arises this light on life's affair?. The lns-t stifled by the Ice and snow of winter awake at this same time with the breezes of spring and the soft light of the sun upon them. "It Is the day of the restoration of all things on the lull tide of which we step forth, without delay or fear. We desire a full measure of satisfaction! In the way of liberty and thp pursuit Of happiness and BJl opportunity to develop de-velop what s in us for the glory of our people. "We awake now ftom the old world with its darkened conditions In full do-termination do-termination and one heSM and one mind, with right on our side, along With the forces of nature, to a new Ufa May all ih- ancestors to the thou SSnd and ten thousandth generation aid OS from within and all the force of the world aid us from without, and let thc da Wfl take hold bo the day' of our attainment. 'n ,,R hope we go forward. Three Items of Agreement. "1 This work of ours la In behalf of truth, religion and life, undertaken at the request of our people. In order to make known their desire for liberty. lib-erty. Let no violence be done to an-one. an-one. "2. Let thoso who follow us, even man. all the time, every hour, show forth with gladness thU same mind "?.. Let all thlncs be done deeently and In order, so that our behavior to the ery end may be honorable and upnirht "The 4252ml car of the kingdom of Korea. 3rd moon." |