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f 1IK COHVAtAAS (iAZKtfK, FftlDAY, AUGUST 3, iS$i. THE SITUATION KEYIEWED Judge Denny on the Dispute Between China, Japan and Corea. Hon. O. N. Denny, state senator for Multnomah county, is one who has Iiad peculiar and excellent advantages for knowledge of tlie grounds of dis pute bettfCen China, Japan and Corea. H, 5nPt.wPlv, vrs-in the Orient. - one lulf the time iri the diplomatic service of the United States in China, the remainder in the service of the king of Corea, as his confidential agent arid adviser at his capital. No one knows better the condition of alTaiis In Corea, or the relations between Corea and her neighbors. Yesterday ' Judge Denny came home from his farm iu Yamhill county, where he had been attending to his harvest during the week. Called upon by a represen tative of the Oregonian he made the following statement! "With some of the Oregonian's Comments on the Coreaii trouble I quite" agree, but as to others I take a different view.. As you say, it is a pity that this country lias no permanent diplomatic service where men are tlior Oughly trained Hnd equipped to round Off bharp points in diplomatic contro versy wliit'h otherwise often lead to fctraiiied relations, or humiliation in Order to avoid them. Had there been 6uch a service perhaps the people of (his country would not have recently witnessed th; revocation of the ooin- fnission of a duly appointed and ac credited plenipotentiary of this gov- frmrient to the court of IVking, sim ply because the Chinese under British direction regarded the appointee as persona non grata, for having had the Courage, while alienator in congress, to txprcss his candid opinion upon a great international question of vital in terest to his own country. Then, too. such a service might have saved the people of this government a little later on the humiliation of seeing the law ol Congress, restricting the coming ol Chinese coolies to this country, set at defiance by the China government in pursuance of British advice, supple mented by the lawyers of the Six Com panics in New York city. And now it seems we have the third exhibition of Chinese domination of the state department "with, the aid of her British ally, in what appears to be an attempt On the part of that department to in terfere in a treaty dispute between the -Japanese and Chinese governments, which not only does not concern the United States, but is couched in such taw and undiplomatic language as to Cause strained relations between Japan and ourselves, or an apology on the part of the latter to avoid them. This impertinence on the part of China isj becoming too monotononsly frequent to be in keeping with the dignity and liigh standing of a republican govern ment like that of the United States and it ought to be stopped.- Japan is certainly one of the most courageous, prosperous and progressive countries In Hia Orient rnrtiHlu niiTii-nnrhiiicr n republican basis, always dignifying its intercourse with Western nations with candid and eo'OrteCMs treacmclit. Ei pecially is this true in her relations with the United States, and now to be repaid by what appears to be an at tempted interference in a dispute wherein the Japanese are in the right, sl shall attempt to show, simply be cause the Chinese demand it, is cer tainly too much for that government to pass over unrebuked. "You say 'it appears that Mr. Ores--lham was induced to send his bullying message to Japan by the English and Chinese ministers, both of these na tions being interested in maintaining the present government of Corea, which, indeed for 200 years has been a -vassal state of China.' Herein is to be found the key to the whole diffi culty, viz : the. vassalage dogma set up by China in the year 1885 through the Chinese minister to Corea, backed by the commands of the British gov ernment, the originator of the plan, the idea being that if China can main tain vassalage oyer Corea, it would be the easiest way for the British to check the southern advance of Russia'.- In the brief or pamphlet 1 prepared and published in 1889, while adviser to the king and director of foreign affairs, on the historical and international re lation of China1 and Corea, I pointed out, I think to the satisfaction of every power having treaties with Corea and representation at Seoul except the Chi nese and British, that Corea, measured by those rules of international juris prudence which have governed West ern or civilized nations so long and well, is just as sovereign and indepen dent as China herself; that in the light of thos investigations ' no treaty or Vassalage, either by agreement or con quest, was ever established with or ev Corea. The only treaty made bj Corea with Cliiiia, except the one of friendshipj commerce and navigation made in 1884, within the last 258 years, is a tributary one, the same un der which Corea now annually sends tribute to the Peking court, and which was established in the most anomalous way. Originally it was not a treat with China at all; it Las only become so by ancient custom, "fliis treaty was made in 163G with a Miinchu prince who was in open rebellion 1 aa,nsl Me ium- ay"y. nie most . . i v 3 .1 I I .1. y- I . . , I IJoIuiar one me imiiese ever nan Tins prince and general was also wag ing war aero: the Corean bordei, loot ing fit-Ids and homes, and the king, in order to free his people from these raids, promised not to take any further part in the controversy and as an earn est of faith agreed to send annually to the Manchu rebel certain tribute. which was faithfully done for the eight years of warfare which followed, when the Manchus, in 1644, overthrew the Mings, Hiid have continued to admin ister the government down to the pres ent time. Though this tributary treaty was made with a rebellious leader, the kings of Corea have kept this tributary pledge, perhaps because the traitor be cune a patriot by becoming the hea1 f the government. Tlie mistaken notion of Corea 's v.-issnlage has grown out of the fact that most people re gard tributary and vassal as synony mous terms; whereas all writers on in ternational jurisprudence make the broadest possible "listincion, assigning o vassal states the sa.ne relation to the suzerain slate that t!ie siave holds to the master, while to the tributary stale is assigned all the elements of sover eignty with reference to internal and external affairs that the superior slate possesses. The vassal derives abso lutely no authority except from the suzerain, while the stnct obligations of trihiitai-y stales are discharged when the tribute is paid. If tributary rela tions constitute vassalage then Great Britain is the vassal of China by rea son of the tribute she pays the Chinese vernnient for account of Burmah. So also were the European states vassals of the B .rbary states by reason j of the tribute they paid those states to J keep their black pirates from molesting I their commerce. I might mention J other simil .r instances, but these are sufficient. The unerring test, however, ! of a state's sovereignty and independ ent character is its right to negotiate, to conclude treaties of friendship, nav igation ami commerce, to exchange putiic ministers, to declare war or peace with other sovereign and inde pendent powers. These are rights and conditions consistent with sover- eignty which, when possessed by a ; state, place it in the great family of in-, dependent nations, while states which j do not p Assess such powers must be j ranKea as semi-inuependent or vassal,! according to the terms or the agree ment. Corea has in the nast exercised a nd is now exercising all the functions of a sovereign and independent state. In 1876 Corea in her sovereign ca-L pacity concluded a treaty of frierdship, navigation and commerce with Japan, without contention on the part of China on the score of vassalage. Six years later, or M ly 22, 1882, the American tieatv was signed at Che mulpo (Jensen). It is true that the preliminary discussions over the pro visions of this treaty Viceroy Li, who had been requested by the king to aid in its formation, brought up for dis cussion the subject of vassalage. Two diafts were submitted to that conven tion, one by the viceroy and the other by the American envoy. The fir.it clause iu the viceroy's diaft was for the recognition of vassal or dependent relations between China aud Corea, which the agent of the United States declined to consiner or even discuss further than to say that, as his mission was to make z treaty with an inde pendent state, such a treaty he would have or none at all. Notwithstanding this, the viceroy urged the adoption of the dependent clause to a point beyond which he could not go without break ing off negotiations, when he yielded, but thereafter in all the treaty conven tions which followed not one word was heard from China on the subject of vas salage. Neither was it mentioned in 1883, when the treaties were concluded with Great Britain and Germany, nor in 1884, when those with Russia and Italy were made. In 1886 when the treaty with France was concluded, I was one of the king's negotiators, and in all the discussions which followed the subject of vassalage was not men tioned or even thought of so far as I know. Not only were all these treat ies made with Corea on the basis of a sovereign state, but each treaty con vention pledged its government to the preservation of Corean autonomy, and that in the event of any nation acting unjustly with Corea to lend their good office or assistance in righting the wrong, X et not one word was ever heard from China afctotit Vassalage. "In 1883 Great Britain and Ger many concluded treaties with Corea, and the subject of vassalage was never mentioned. Russia and Italy in 1884, Fiance in 1886, concluded treaties also. In the latter convention I was one of the plenipotentiaries for the king, and in all the discussions the subject of vassalage never was men tioned, or even thought of, so far as 1 know. I do know, however, that since China has undertaken openly to enforce her vassalage scheme, the rights, privileges and concessions guar anteed by Corea in her treaties with Japan and western powers have been greatly encroached upon and abridged, .simply because the Corean govern ment is bullied into it by threats' of war and general intimidation influence from the Chinese. "As China claims to be the sover eign of Corea, she now undertakes to abolish or render nugatory the solemn. stipulations of all the Corean treaties, and that is what Japan is resenting by her invading armies, as she intends to compel the Coreans to keep the faith already pledged. While I was m tin service of the king of Corea there was hardly a wcek passed that the Japan ese minister did not call my attention to clear violations of the treaties, dw rectly traceable to the intimidating in nuence of the Cmnese minister to Corea, and on numerous occasions did I lend my personal and official efforts to smoothing down the irritation be tween the two governments from this cause. On the occasion of my last visit to the great viceroy at T;eu Tain, I pointed out with all the earnestness I conlJ command the certain serious trouble which would come to Corea as well as his own government, if this recent pohcy of absorption of the lit tle country was persisted in hy the Peking government: that th-j conces sions made in the Corean treaties would not le surrendered by the treaty powers, especially by Ja,au, ex cept at the point of the bayonet; and now as the conflict appears to be on iu earnest, I am not at all surprised, as I knew it must come. Tiier are two i)ai.tjes m Corea, as there re in China an, Ja!mn: one the brigade of corruot ()lfi;.ias who illft.st the king's c iurt, f'-o COward!y to resent insult to their kin. llI1(i wlo .,re entirely without loyalty to Lis niajwrj or devoJon to their un try, the same who packed their effects ready lor flight to t!i mountains at the first intimation of the defeat of the government forces in a mere pre liminary skirmish, ready to abandon the king to the tender met cies of the op position; the other party, and the one auoiiorting the Japanese, are the nro j,,.esi,ive Coreans, who are making war n ,ie corruptionists, but who are oy:li to the Mn,,f because they believe, as t believe, him to lie a loval and t,.i;)tio ,.uler Tl,j, t aso i,e. lieves Corea to be just as sovereign and independent in law and fact us Ciiina or any other c iuutry. While the Chinese are a great people, with wonderful business ca pacity and energy, yet they lack the patriotism nd esprit du corps which the Japanese possess, which makes tlie latter better soldiers, and wrt-h their absence of fear of death, and the aid of their short two-edged sword i, in the contest which seems a' ready on, they will leave many a battlefield strewn with the bodies of their ene mies. In a long contest, however, the odds are against J ipan, as she is not only a sm ill country, but finan cially weak, while China literally swarms with her hundreds Of millions of people. Besides she has no national debt to speak of, and she can raise ample means with which to carry on the war. "As to Russia: and France, neither is prepared just now to enter the con test, although there is a deternfiriaiion on the part of both these states not to permit China to render nugatory through her. vassalage notions the pro visions with Corea. "Neither do I believe that Russia now has the slightest idea of encroach ing upon the Corean peninsula. In 1860 Russia took from China a strip of territory down, to the" Amoor, in cluding the Usnri river, and on to the Tumen river, which now forms the boundary for 40 or 50 miles between Russia and Corea, and which includes the fine harbors of tlie Pbssiette, 60 miles north of the Tumen, and which is open the year around, as well as the harbor of Vladivostock,- further north and now the base of Russian operations on the Pacific. These har bors give Russia all the facilities she needs, without further encroachment upon either CBina or Corea, and at the same time relieves her from the responsibility of . defending the 1500 miles of Corean coast, 600 miles of which are next to China, on the gulf of Pichili which, with a war on her hands, Russia could not defend, while in times of peace the coast would need- no defense at her hands. What Rus sia may do when her great Siberian railway is completed, no one can tell, not even Russia herself. "As Corea is regarded the keystone to the political arch in the East, the outcome of the present complications will be watched with deep interest and in some quarters with intense anxiety.-' But whatever the result between China and Japan, poor little Corea is to be pitied. B ing the battle ground, her people will be plundered, robbed aud murdered, whi'e the country will be laid Waste, the government bank rupted, if not entirely wiped Out of ex istence. The king, being loyal to his people, as well as soberj industrious and progressive, is constantly seeking informat on which will aid him in directing his subjects into those paths which lead to the higher plane of civilization which h?ve done so much to humanize and Christianize the Western world efforts which are a source of constant irritation to the Chinese. 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