Mar. 16, Contrary to a certain popular impression, editors are after all but human. They find it no easier than do other people to be always quite consistent. They cannot always lay down the law with absolute assurance that they will not later on have cause to repent it. All of which is merely preliminary to admitting Mr. C. N. Whang's soft impeachment that we do indeed "'labour under considerable difficulties in trying to be fair to both Japan and Korea." Hardly a week passes but we receive some new account from Korean sources of atrocities said to have been committed by Japanese in Korea. And although ie is not always quite easy to decide whether these are supposed to have happened a few weeks ago or are a repetition of what may have been done in the heat and fury of suppressing the rebellion a year ago, the obvious fact of the great and inappeasable discontent of numbers of the better class Koreans argues beyond doubt that something is very much amiss. Moreover, it is unfortunately beyond dispute that the average Japanese citizen and official are not good colonists. No doubt the many suffer for the sins of the
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