Korean independence outbreak beginning March 1st 1919

([S.l. :  s.n.,  1920?])

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>lame her for lack of Honesty, when her literatii, speaking from the
platfoim, and her officials, by theii acts, count tho inheritance of
our fathers as a colony of the ovm or treat our civilization ^^
thouifi we wer^ savages! only to be satisfied when they beat us into
submission, and put to shame tho foundation of our society and our
best mental endeavours.                                                     ^     ,  t - , -.„.i .„,,

Vie.  who have special need to reprimand ourselves, shoulu spend no
time oi the faults of others; wc, who need to organise the present
sio^lfnot waste a minute in'finding fault with the ,rast  our responsib¬
ility today is to eatablish ourselves, and not to puilothers /om
In line with the dictates of a  clear conscience, our ^^Vis^to break up
the fallow ground of our new destiny, and not for a moment, thru long
©mothered resentment, or paa^in.^ an^er to spiteiully attuvx. Ox oner
opposition.                                                                          ^  ,       •+ ic

Our v/ish is to move the Japanese Government, oouna as it i^
ijy oid ideas aud.  past day iuflueucea, a victim of the love of fame
that acta and iaanifests itself by the u^atural and imreasonable
ways of Gi-ror, to change to something better, and by a straight road
and natural and reasonable way, retur.. to the place of innocence.

The result that v.-as brought about without any request on
the part of our people, has meant oppression, used as time serving
measui-e, im-^artially, statistics, based on false fig-ures, intended to
show the reverse of what is really true in a profit and loss account
iietiiesu  our two peoples. Thus the farther they _o the deeper they
di-' a trench resentment between us that ao reconciliation can
bridge over. Behold the result today. Let the courageous make
right what is wrong, and by a correctly ordered comprehension based
on symi^athy, open up a new sxihere of fcindly relationship, thus put¬
ting misfortune a'.fay and brin(3in^ blessing between us.  Is this not
what she especially needs to realize?

«fhe holding under of 20,000,000 people, filled with anger
and bursting with resentment will not only be a causj of diotur-
banne to the peace of the Far East, but will, tho farther it goes,
increase, as well, fear and suspicion oi  the Japanese, on the part
of the center of neace and danger of the Par East, the four htrndred
millions of China', and will undoubtedly result in calling dorm on
the v7hola of East Asia the aad fate of universal destruction.
Thus our independence today while it means a rij^ht honor
due Korea, means at the same time the departui-o of Japan from an
unjust way to one where she truly assumes the great rcsponamility
of protecter of the Far East as well as removing iTo^ China those
disturbin fears, that she cannot escape eveh in her dreams.  It
means, too, a stepping stone to the peace and happiness of the whole
¥;orld of humanity, v/ith regards to the peace of the
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