The Commoner condensed Author:William Jennings Bryan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ever could have understood it without meeting the people of Japan. I can be more proud of your history and share more fully in your anticipations of a still more... more » glorious future. ME. BRYAN IN JAPAN The Japan Times, referring to Mr. Bryan's speech at Waseda, says: This morning, W. J. Bryan, the distinguished leader of the democratic party in the United States, addressed a very large gathering of all college students, assembled at Waseda university, by invitation of Count Okuma, whose guest Mr. Bryan is. Though the weather was slightly rainy, there was a very large assemblage in the university grounds, as the proceedings had to be in the open air on account of the large number of people. The grounds were appropriately decorated, and the students showed no impatience or fear of the wet weather, but undoubted enthusiasm. When Count Okuma appeared, with Mr. Bryan, the cheering was prodigious. Dr. Hatoyama briefly introduced Mr. Bryan to the audience, and said: Mr. Bryan is American—that is in itself an introduction to Japanese; for ever since the days of Commodore Perry the friendship of the United States has made a deep impression on the hearts of the Japanese. (Applause.) This was shown in the reimbursement of the Shimonoseki indemnity and the promptness in acceding to Japan's efforts to shake off the yoke of ex-territoriality and recover her tariff autonomy. In fact, whenever any question of justice was involved in our international relations we could always count on the United States to be on the side of right. (Applause.) In the second place, our guest belongs to the democratic party, whose influence has always been in the interests of equal rights for all. (Applause.) In the third place, our guest is Mr. Bryan, leader of the opposition in America. In fact, today we ar...« less