The croakers may croak and the pessimists may growl and the independence of Korea may
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| 신문명 | 독립신문(영문) [ 獨立新聞(영문) ] |
| 발행처 | 獨立新聞社 |
| 발행일 | 1896년 06월 20일 |
| 관련 주제어 | 관련 주제어가 없습니다 |
| 기사위치 | 1면 1단 |
| 기사유형 | 논설 |
| 기사주제 | 정치 |
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서울: 국립중앙도서관, 2017
발행일 : 18960620
창간일 : 18960407
원소장처 : 한국언론진흥재단
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EDITORIAL.The croakers may croak and the pessimists may growl and the independence of Korea may be treated as a joke by those who can see nothing but the fact that His Majesty is still enjoying the hospitality of the Russian legation but they all argue from their fears and not from either present facts or future probabilities. Today we rejoice in the fact that the King has decided to erect upon the ruins of the arch outside the West Gate, a new one to be entitled Independence Arch. 독립문. We do not know as its inscription will be written in on-mun but we wish it might. For centuries the arch stood there as a constant insult to the autonomy of Korea, an autonomy which China always hastened to assert when called upon to stand responsible for any tremble in the peninsula but which site always denied when it was safe to do so. She denied it once too many times and now her "suzerainty" is where the old arch is, namely op-so. And now an arch is to be raised on the same spot to stand forever as a negation of Manchu dominance to show that Korea is once and for all cut off from the blighting influence of Chinese patronage; cut off, we hope, also from the system of fraud, corruption and trickery which today makes that most populous empire the laughing-stock of the world. This arch means independence not from China alone but from Japan from Russia and from all European powers. Not that she could stand against them in the brunt of war but that she is so situated that the interests of peace, of humanity, of progress demand for her and will secure to her the enjoyment of an integral position among the powers of the East. War might rage around her?nay, pour over her but she would again emerge intact if only by the law of the equilibrium of forces. All success to the Independence arch and may future generations point to it and to the sovereign at whose hand it was reared with feelings similar those with which Englishmen, Americans, Frenchmen or others point to those events which murk the glorious achievements of their progenitors.There was an ancient prophecy that if the dynasty should outlive its 500th year it would be perpetual. The coincidence is interesting. Almost exactly at the expiration of the semi the events transpired whiched Korea from a condition which promised a speedy dissolution and she took on a new lease of life, began another five hundred year period which we trust will not be interrupted.Korea is a small State but I would say of her as Pere Hyacin the said of little Judea:?"The little States! They are constituted by the hand of God and I trust in Him, that He will not suffer them to be removed. He has placed them between the great states as the negation to universal empire?a pacific obstacle to the shocks of their power and the plots of their ambition." |
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