Yee Man Jik Kim Hyung Sun
                    Yee Nai Su Yu Keun
                    Pak Han Yung Kang Ji Yung
                    Pak Chang Ho Chang Seung
                    Yee Yeng Jun Kim Heyen Chun
                    Choi Chun Koo Kim Ryu
                    Yee Yong Kiu Kim Sig
                    Yu Sik Kiu Chu Ik
                    Yu Jang Wuk Hong Seung Wuk
                    Song Ji Hun Chang Chun
                    Yee Tong Wuk Chung Tam Kio
                    Kim Taik Pak Tak
                    Kang Hoon

RESOLUTIONS

That a Provisional Government shall be organized.

That a demand be made of the Government of Japan to withdraw the
administrative and military organs from Korea.

That a delegation shall be appointed to the Paris Peace
Conference.  That the Koreans in the employ of the Japanese
Government shall withdraw.

     That the people shall refuse to pay taxes to the Japanese
     Government.

     That the people shall not bring petitions or litigations before
     the Japanese Government.

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It was expected in Korea that there would be an immediate agitation in America to secure redress.  The American churches were for some weeks strangely silent.  There is no reason why the full reasons should not be made public.

The missionary organizations mainly represented in Korea are also strongly represented in Japan.  Their officials at their headquarters are almost forced to adopt what can be politely described as a statesmanlike attitude over matters of controversy between different countries.  When Mr. Armstrong, of the Presbyterian Board of Missions of Canada, arrived in America, burning with indignation over what he had seen, he found among the American leaders a spirit of great caution.  They did not want to offend Japan, nor to injure Christianity there.  And there was a feeling—­a quite honest feeling,—­that they might accomplish more by appealing to the better side of Japan than by frankly proclaiming the truth.  The whole matter was referred, by the Presbyterian and Methodist Boards, to the Commission on Relations with the Orient of the Federal Council of the Churches, a body representing the Churches as a whole.

The Secretary of that Commission is the Rev. Sydney Gulick, the most active defender of Japanese interests of any European or American to-day.  Mr. Gulick lived a long time in Japan; he sees things, inevitably, from a Japanese point of view.  He at once acted as though he were resolved to keep the matter from the public gaze.  This was the course recommended by the Japanese Consul-General Yada at New York.  Private pressure was brought on the Japanese authorities, and the preparation of a report was begun in very leisurely fashion.