Deseret Evening News | 1907-10-08 | Page 7 | Law Will be Enforced

LAW W 2 CD LW Wi J Opium 11 Mi Itte 11 10 to Irs he I I IN H Out o f n nArmy Army 0 returning from the the proprietors proprietor of Philippines say opium dens dna are not nat feeling a I us happy ma a they the were a few months ago q Then w they hI imagined that the ti limit of or the thet three t h rf years year law w designed d to cut them out of y business March Mar 1 11 1505 OK would be b extended three yen ears ea more or perhaps Indefinitely Hut u ii t of months month UK ligi go this tt condition of things thing was a abrought brought to the notice noties of cit f the president and secretary of o war wr with wih the Ih result that both official notified not I the Ih U t B I commission governing the Philippines that thaI the tI law la was wa WI not to tu be that thai tt it I meant business juat Jt what It said aid anti anci ur on the date dat specified It would go Into effect efI and must mut be b rigorously I enforced This Thia lets lt out th the opium traffic In the 11 lands and nd the t present nt familiar legen lel Lent Licensed opium dealer lle will wi disappear next neat spring bring from fm the t h doors dor of or the th Joint TH The T war against rum and opium seems seema me meto to have been II opened up In dead df earn earnest ar est cot N In the orient rl nt The action tion ot of the British government In recalling It policy of Ut o half a it century ago 10 when hen It forced for opium upon China Is I proving of tip tho t most moat material assistance the ther army officers r any 1 y In strengthening tr the theP position P of or the th Chinese government In Infighting infighting fighting 1 he the th evil The Th main trouble at t present 1 is III In the th foreign forlan Cones cone concession sion ions whet the Chinese officials official can cannot cannot an annot not the h edl el edit t and ald the repression rp lion sion Io of fit the Ih opium tram must mut be b ac cc hel through sympathetic ef efforts effort efforts forts fort of o the various rlou foreign fota govern government mania ment represented In these t conces concession Ion sion Japan ha hu cut ut out opium entire entirely ly It