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Show llON PERDICARIS j MAKES ADDRESS ! Tells the Geographical ! Society About His Ab- duction by Raisuli. j WASHINGTON. Nov. 18-Before an a i-' i-' dience that literally packed Hubbard hall, j men and women being perched on tabU-4 j and bookshelves, and Prof. Willis L. j Moore, president of the National Geo-i Geo-i graphical society, chairman of the meeting, meet-ing, balanced on a bookcase. Ion PerdK carls, whott experience as a captive of Moorish bandits, which came near resulting result-ing in serious International compllca-! compllca-! Hons, addressed the Geographical society l on the subject of "Morocco." Speaking of the Suiiaa of that country I he compared hmi with the Czar of Russia, Rus-sia, as a man anxious to see his people happy, but lacking the courage of his convictions, the tact and ability to make them so. Negroes have come to be an Important factor tn the management of the government, he said. Mr. Pedicaris stated that the population of the country is between four and seven millions of people, despite a mistaken id- a among tourists that the country Is thinly populated. Every one who can lives out I of sight from the main highways, he dr-I dr-I clared. in order to escae the exaction of I official taxgatherers and the fashion of the Government In billeting its troops j and officials on the people along th roads. |