"Today We Cry Out in Lament"

Jang Ji-yeon published the editorial "Siil-ya bangseong daegok" in the Hwangseong sinmun, denouncing Japan and the ministers who had approved the treaty.

The editorial rebuked Itō Hirobumi for forcing the treaty, called the ministers who approved it "worse than dogs and pigs", and lamented, "Alas, how bitter and how infuriating! O our twenty million compatriots!" The Hwangseong sinmun was printed and distributed without passing Japanese censorship.

Japan arrested Jang Ji-yeon and suspended the paper until February 1906. Reprinted in the Daehan maeil sinbo, the editorial spread widely and fired the movement against the treaty.