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The Opium Monopoly By: Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873-1961) |
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO THE OPIUM MONOPOLY by ELLEN N. LA MOTTE Author of "Backwash of War," "Peking Dust,"
"Civilization," Etc. New York
The Macmillan Company
1920 All rights reserved Copyright, 1920
By The Macmillan Company Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1920.
"If this was our battle, if these were our ends,
Which were our enemies, which were our friends?" Witter Bynner , in The Nation.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION ix I. GREAT BRITAIN'S OPIUM MONOPOLY 1 II. THE INDIAN OPIUM MONOPOLY 6 III. JAPAN AS AN OPIUM DISTRIBUTOR 11 IV. SINGAPORE 18 V. THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS OPIUM COMMISSION 23 VI. OPIUM IN SIAM 26 VII. HONGKONG 30 VIII. SARAWAK 35 IX. SHANGHAI 37 X. INDIA 44 XI. TURKEY AND PERSIA 54 XII. MAURETIUS 56 XIII. BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 58 XIV. BRITISH GUIANA 62 XV. HISTORY OF THE OPIUM TRADE IN CHINA 65 XVI. CONCLUSION 73
INTRODUCTION
We first became interested in the opium traffic during a visit to the
Far East in 1916. Like most Americans, we had vaguely heard of this
trade, and had still vaguer recollections of a war between Great
Britain and China, which took place about seventy five years ago, known
as the Opium War. From time to time we had heard of the opium trade as
still flourishing in China, and then later came reports and assurances
that it was all over, accompanied by newspaper pictures of bonfires of
opium and opium pipes. Except for these occasional and incidental
memories, we had neither knowledge of, nor interest in the subject. On
our way out to Japan, in the July of 1916, we met a young Hindu on the
boat, who was outspoken and indignant over the British policy of
establishing the opium trade in India, as one of the departments of the
Indian Government. Of all phases of British rule in India, it was this
policy which excited him most, and which caused him most ardently to
wish that India had some form of self government, some voice in the
control and management of her own affairs, so that the country could
protect itself from this evil. Without this, he declared, his country
was powerless to put a stop to this traffic imposed upon it by a
foreign government, and he greatly deplored the slow, but steady
demoralization of the nation which was in consequence taking place. As
he produced his facts and figures, showing what this meant to his
people this gradual undermining of their moral fiber and economic
efficiency we grew more and more interested. That such conditions
existed were to us unheard of, and unbelievable. It seemed incredible
that in this age, with the consensus of public opinion sternly opposed
to the sale and distribution of habit forming drugs, and with
legislation to curb and restrict such practices incorporated in the
laws of all ethical and civilized governments, that here, on the other
side of the world, we should come upon opium traffic conducted as a
government monopoly. Not only that, but conducted by one of the
greatest and most highly civilized nations of the world, a nation which
we have always looked up to as being in the very forefront of advanced,
progressive and humane ideals. So shocked were we by what this young
Hindu told us, that we flatly refused to believe him... Continue reading book >>
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