With regard to manufactured goods, Dregs, here comes a point, with which you are more or less directly or indirectly acquainted. Now we have no' large factories as you have. There is a very large margin to fill up by your mana-factured goolls, but there is " mut advantage. Let the keen business men come here and see our goods and compare them with their own. The Japanese are clever enough but they are not cheap enough, They might find many things that might be supplied much cheaper than we make them here, because our industrial establishments are not up to the mark of the Europeans. At the same time suppose the European business man or commercial agent comes to Japan and with your assistance selects sample of Japanese workmanship. Many things that are made in Japan could be found useful in Europe or adaptable. The exhibition could easily become an international exposition for the interchange of ideas resulting in reciprocal benefit and mutual gain (Loud applause). I might fied many examples to corroborate what I have said. The cutting' "machine for timber has been introduced within the last year or two. Formerly' we cut our timber by hand; now they are using machines imported from England. Dyeing substances from Germany, glass ware from Belgiam and many such things are growing carried out ina proper way, it wil 'a benefit to both Japan and the (Cheers).
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