But Corean politicians are not to be trusted and the Independence Party which seems to be in power to-day will be replaced by the Russian party to-morrow, the Japanese party the day after tomorrow, and the American party on the day after that. Fortune is a fickle goddess but not half so flighty as Corean politics, and the Japanese will do well not to rejoice overmuch, lest a re-action come before they get over their intoxication, and they are rudely awakened from their dreams as they were on a certain February morning, when they awoke to find that his Majesty bad taken refuge in the Russian Legation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.