From the Korean Bureau of Information comes the interesting news that a Korean Commission submitted to the recent Democratic Convention in America a proposed! plank as follows:—"We express our sympathy with Korea and our accord with her just desire for restored national ance of our Treaty obligations to freedom and pledge the perform-
her by using our good offices to relieve the oppression of her people.
In the course of a few pages of "reasons," the history of the country is alluded to and reference made to the first treaty between Korea and the United States in 1882. The statement then proceeds:
It was worth while for 20 years to cooperate with the only predominantly christian nation in the East. Why not now\? 'Korea has as many christian churches, with congregations quite as' large as church statistics show the Methodist denomination, for instance, has in the State of New York. We have 3,264 christian churches as against only 238 of all other relig We are the one predominantly christian nation in the Orient, and yet we seem to be the only nation in the Orient that the Powers take no interest in. Christian nations are standing b; watching a confessedly pagan nation, burn these churches and destroy all that the deprivation and self-sacrifice of christian missionaries have accomplished in years of service.
Japanese cruelties and_atrocities in their treatuient of Koreans is a matter of common knowledge and need not be repeated.
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