Osaka, May 11.
The large auditorium of the Public Hall here was last night! filled to overflowing with enthusiastic citizens, eager to hear Mr. Vanderlip's speech. Thousands of people were unable to secure admission and were turned away.
Mr. Vanderlip spoke of his impressions as a result of his conferences with the leading men in Japan, also with people representing the lower classes as well as men aspiring to a broader democracy. He explained this by saying: "My opinions have not wholly been drawn from my most courteous hosts."
Mr. Vanderlip declared that Japan fully deserved her position among the five Great Powers and was destined to be the moral and political leader of the Far (Loud and prolonged cheers) He dwelt at considerable length on the question of the rapid increase of the population in Japan and told his audience how great Britain had solved the same problem by the development of her industries.
Ttaly had attempted to solve it exporting her people and how Germany had failed to solve it by territorial expansion.
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