Count Soyeshima condemns both' views, the former because it would mean' followi the footsteps of Britain, who, "in an evil hour, admitted 'Irish' representatives into Parliament," thereby vitiating Brit. ish polities. He pointe out that the admission of some 100 Korean members into the Imperial Diet would mean the formation pf a group, able to wield formidable fluence in Japanese politics, and ready to join hands with any radical body in' the Diet. The trend of popular thought in Korea he says is in the direction of radicalism, and until the universal suffrage bill has been very well tried out in Japan, such a move so far as Korea is concerned is fraught with very! dangerous possibilities for the Empire. For the "same reasons that prompted Mr. Gladstone to introduce his Home Rule proposal in 1886, Count Soyeshima is resolu-rely opposed to any Korean participation in the government of Japan Pete second and later view, namely political assimilation he also refects because he says it leaves out of consideration "the actual ideas and modes of _life among the Koreans, and disregards their peculiar civilisation, language, customs, and manners, 'The paths of Japanese and of Korean civilisation, he maintains, run parallel, but will never meet Retaining' the inherent qualities lof the Koreans, which go to make a fine nation, the effort should first] be made to educate them to the level of the Japanese, but that is as far as they can be assimilated. In polities, however, they mui system based on their peculiar civilisation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.