| Show I 1 THE CURSE OF CHINA rapid growth ot of opium smoking in ther the lowery flowery kingdom Kin edoia the 0 growers rowers of 0 opium in india ire are inu ell alar alarmed ined over the rapid decrease iu in their exports to china the poppy fields of 0 the flowery kingdom are driving the foreign product front from tho the market there is s a law in ili china forbids for forbidding bidd 1119 opium raising but it lias has been a dead letter ever since england simply because she was deri deriving ying au an annual income 0 of from the tax on indian opium forced china to reopen tier her markets to the drug 1 opium growing tor for several years ye ira past has been rapidly inc increasing i in 11 china about one third ol of t the li cultivated land iu in cunnan is is now devoted to poppy raising 0 travelers describe the valleys of 8 south southwestern western china Chin allas as white inith feitli poppy blossoms to china is now I 1 raising about two thirds of all the opium slie bile consume other foreign opium also is coming into competition with tile the indian product the mozambique opium company is Tt putting tug acres of land in the ille lower zambezi L 41 i valley into opium ind and the african product is already selling 0 in ill tile the market meanwhile the curse of opium smoking weights more heavily every r G I 1 10 10 lic fifth of the population of pekin and are opium smokers it is is sold said that of the attaches of the imperial palace are victims of alic I 1 OIL anble habit in spite of tle fact that the chinee government discourages 0 es tile practice there are it 11 nt number 1 anibell of native aut aviti i societies which arc are doing a in china ir to that of zur our te temper once mice unions here tile government has also ako a large number of refuges c where Tic victims tinis of the opium habit allay go for treatment sedatives Seda tives tonics follies are alc administered to title ruic them of the vice great britain is likely boon ti to some of the alic evils with which she hns has helped to curs china chilli in iii parts of india the habit is snaking alain ming ling pl ogress among tile nat tives the kurquis ALir quis teng called al jo joshia abis act in a letter to tile anti society cica of eai england land t alie lie other day 11 lie kidded that ii if great britain would pul a fiton to the exportation of 0 ili lint from india and 1 I china would effectually f stop slop the P growing of opium within tier tern teni tories lie ife said china was willing to operate cooperate co with great britain in ili striking at the root of the evil evit NN Y stal I 1 |
