| Show t j jI jI f IN I 1 J h 4 1 1 1 I 1 1 aa aai r r I I 1 t sy 1 I i Th ti l I Ip Is i I I I F I s i p f y r rAn An 0 hi I I w i t 7 t lr 1 I NA 1 I ca ek e w t tiDA iDA n the Extract v lv l li lt lr lAn 4 w jv m y t I r t y i I rr f q n An imperial Edict Cam Yellin tle t i Closing of All Dens In l the forerunner of oft a Greta Great Wave yI tiVe of c r t r la S r r f I i I f v t t sK NI J of ear the shoot mont far re t I I 0 and startling ever ev Is la Issued lau 1 sued hued u by hy the Chinese Imperial ImperialI V government was waa mad made pub I II I lie Ile last fall tell It II came like a thunder 1 I t thunder volt dolt to 10 the Chinese nation Itself and 1 it wa ws u scarcely less lean I astounding to th the world In general nral Even Ey from hom that hat t land of ot amazing edict each uch a weeping pl order seemed m cl to be ale U Jt was waa W a p command to he hp Chinese Chin people to give gave 1 up the tM u uee UN t it at f opium a The period periled of ten years yean wa wu specified n M th Ih the edict as a the tine time In which this 0 L i nI j treat rest reform must be tHo accomplished t The rhe restriction of ot the cultivation of I It 11 I he be poppy peppy Jl was to t be tHo effective dl at t once onceY Y 3 i il The Fie fh of rat the document wa w eloquent t ti i ij I n U Ita ila of the cursed cu ft sir r rr r i ign Igo drug drue n nM It m Ilia Is to termed In I a u II t was waa I of f having theto the Jj 11 to von Y or u r th I people l oP a and th the tha e weak k I Me of ot Ih tin nation i Inn No language was waa w oo ono forcible for fua Its Ita 11 condemnation The Thet Theat eat at t of or the I h imperial I order older for far It Its boll f ton lon would have haft horn been hee regarded a as 3 In even aven on Oft th tIM the Up lips jf t r a II missionary 1 i Next to China Itself the nation most nt rested wa was Ut Ureal Britain That t moral moil sad and eminently thrifty power had good NIt to 10 be agItAted end ind It WK w That was waa much ucb Ii j X f r the opium ud used by hy law was waa wui i 0 rato il In India I and anything II that In lerr with the tile lOut Waat ladisa to Is properly trl to John bun Bully Bull Th The new nw of or the Imperial determination tion don to top stop the wa was received Ived with mingled alarm nn and nd Incredulity In London Some of the Influential ling Eng Itch nh Journals were ere freak frank enough to 10 deplore the loss Iou to tl British commerce Some of them declined to put faith in inthe Inthe the good Mood Intention of or the Celestial gov government government The London Times Timed Tim treated the matter as a follows we have han not nol the tIM least wish to belittle little any patriotic or enlightened Impulses Impulse that may have haYe prompted the edict teach leaches u us III to be cau cas cautious ca about bout taking announcements of Chinese reform at th t their lr r face Value ha haa followed promises promise too often otten for u one to 10 accept them with confidant eraM assurance Too often has howl It that flat the reform j being Inspired 4 br r an u bonsai 11 Improvements Improvement were war merely advertised as all a ready d means mean n of r captivating the foreigner has hall this been the race can In matter which are known to Inter the wet west on moral or orI re n I ground d When Mr tr lr Burns games game am Chinese Chine mission the of or those thoa missions which China ha hu dl di patched at nt Interval for tor spying out the west wI came to Europe Europa In I 1117 one on of II It trump tru card carel wa waa China Chinas Invitation to Protestant l mIMi a to come cont and plant pant lh the Mining cross on every v hill hili hilland and UKI In every v ry r valley valay valle An As undoubted impression l n w HI matte made by the thi t at the tha t j I 2 4 In an jN 1 e r lave tW time but so tar far from China having planted the croaa croon It would be bo truer true to toMY say MY that she BIle ha hall has watered the hill hills and since Roe then with wit Wood blood Wrong Again Time ha hu has shown MOwn pretty conclusively that th u the wa was wU ww of the th T ta th the tha crusade which I is rolling roiling like a IL great t tidal wave over ever UM the empire of China Chita seema eem to be tHo a n and earnest Mm movement in Ih which tie the very va best belt t efforts effort of the well 11 ed among mong the vast population population tion Oft are actively engaged ed At Ant arat the Imperial directions direction were e received with marked rk skepticism by the tit tb rank and hie of the Chinese public the Use popular opinion belong being bel that the high and mighty powers power of the country count were amusing themselves at bluff and that there then wa was really no RO Intention of at carrying the tha drastic measure into et ef effect tact fact Now however natters matter ra are vastly different Even the tb most reluctant to believe among amon those thoe who distrusted the government governments honesty of purpose pu nn r compelled Id to acknowledge knol d that the empire is I actually trying trIng to 10 uplift It Itu colt if u and to admit that there then th I Is III an In Increasing Ing increasing creasing g feeling against the M use e of the foreign drug dreg dna The movement seems m I to be steady and hd I spreading with I rapidity This I b e ep ea as p true In III the southern part of at atthe the empire In to which tin tte II exist lit In greet great numbers number At tie the prevent present Mm time many ma of ot the th tb most moat prominent official In I the empire are re joining in the crusade with ener energy gy 17 The Th uco etlea of which there ar are many hundreds hundred ar are com corn composed posed largely lardy lar aty of young men students student and those th aou of the more mon Intelligent classes aa and they are lire frequently man managed mand managed aged d by of foreign duca duea lion many ninny of or their presidents being beh young men mn who have hav attended attend Amen Ameri American rt ran lan schools These Th societies co cooperate with tile tae In I the enforce J I l j it LJ A I Poppy Plantation meat ment of ot th the regulations and nd greet groat good glOd ha ba bas resulted n nIn In order effectually to abolish the opium wit evil In China the authorities realised that It U would be necessary n I Ito to prohibit the cultivation of ot the opium bearing poppy Steps St II were taken at once one to that end To avoid too great hardship for the owners owner of ot poppy plantation It wa was announced that the reduction In the U number of ot poppy farms farm would be tHo made mad gradual gradually ly It is II I In this feature of ot the reform that the real test teat of ot Chinas China sincerity lies liss If It the edict I ii only a cleverly devised ed scheme on the pan part of the Ce Celestial authorities to shut out the I toroth foreign trade In the drug the govern government government ment hoping thereby to tt stimulate the home production It will happen that the restrictions restriction against the home growers will not be enforced although some show of doing doln eo o will be made mad for awhile That Thai I precisely what the resident foreigners foreigner who have bave been no hO notified hOUnd Und tilled to abandon the culture of ot the drug dru to la the empire are now no asserting British and Ad French owners owner of plan plantation pana tation doctor declare that thus thu far tar no native naU grower of the puppy poppy has hall been n molested mo and that the tha cultivation of the plant I 1 markedly on o the tM Increase Ine IneTh Th The British opium grower In I China and An OM the Rut 11 st Indian Cere ef et the lie liean drug dm are an M se serials that Mt tn the MI whole to a a II deep game t played by b China calm te to e Bt get exclusive control of ot the trade trad that they have hae made a bit Ma fuss MaIn ru In la parliament ow over 0 the matter Thu Thus far however they tile liar have only oal then boon ridiculed for tor their pains pain There Then I le III no doubt that the Ih Indian opium Is I tar far superior to the Chinos Chine Chi grown vown article and It h has ball always alway commanded a high higher er price In the Celestial markets market In Inthe Inthe the th competition the Chinese Chine grown rown product ha has always alway suffered greatly Notwithstanding the enormous duties dull levied on Indian opium It ha has had bad no difficulty In maintaining It Its own ov until now no It has ha been beeD only ORb the poorer classes class a of ot Chinese Chine who have used t ICI the tha native drug In Good Coed Filth Faith The American legation In China places pili no 00 credence ene whatever In these theN insinuations Insinuation against Celestial good faith In the matter of ot the edict In Influential Influential Americans American long lone resident In is Poking anti ami other large la Chinese Chine cities some of ot th them m connected with missions mission and nd others other In the service of the Im Imperial portal government put the most moat Im Implicit confidence e In the Integrity of or the Iha throne end and nd In the genuineness of It lie determination to effect a great gnat t re reform rv reo form It would seem also that the re responsible re responsible British authorities hold the same opinion Sir John Jordan the Ih British minister at al t Peking recently signed an agreement with the Chinese government to reduce the Importation of opium gradually until the entire trade comes come to 10 an D end In ten tn years year eara There Then 1 I is a proviso attached to tl this curious document do which shota hov that the th British lion doe doc ntH not mean mea to be caught napping It If China tall fall entire entirely nU ly II to prohibit the opium habit within ten years year she h to Ie to be ailed an amount equal to three time Um the opium revenue she collected annually for ten years year before the reduction of or the opium Im Importation Importation porta In order to 10 carry carr out It Ill III part of the t agreement ment th the Peking government lat last starch March sent ent t peremptory telegraphic order to alt all viceroy and nd governor All opium smokers smoker under sixty years year of age whether official K merchants merchant or the Ih common i opi pl 1 abandon dnn the th habit within Hi tit three th years year ea Viceroys Viceroy govern Tartar generals erale are re to Ie tomake I make all nil smokers stop top the Ih it h h possible within one ODI or two IWo yi y opium dens den and other i pubs ul ubI li of a similar character in eau their doors door within nine in hM the first lIt of the Chinese new nee nl v were wen Instructed MI UI II t selling III opium must mut put It In IP In Inand and nd aHU government which the drug dru shall be bo re iv I contraband All shops me iii 11 n r register ter their names name and fun fui I Ira Ian tor ra In the tb local mD and their number I la to be Ix hint new shop may be opened A I smokers mok mut must furnish turn h their n m quantity they smoke dally necessary particulars particular II k be lu issued d to such uh 1 regist 1 r Ito I Ito Ito to enable them to buy ther i n I ply pi from registered opium o lum I MI t II This order Oder was wa closing casing of the opium den in to inthe 11 the th large cities In one on mn m H lose Ions on dutle amounted amount to tl t I and aad In one OD province provine s 1 diminished by bJ in plates places great reat n made mad In celebration of f u tl uthe Iii the dens den and In many mn In I were wre of such uell an aD I 1 i patriotic character thu ne i have supposed up that some om r i r y wa was W being bel I T celo traversed the th thI r hundred hundreds of shops hOIU ninny aluni ai nl I ln ti II 1 I march were II decorated decanted The Chinese i r at t i ifor r I for having practically lIy f r i ithem I Ithem them and aDd declare th that t in i 1 Id I II English went well nt to n 1 r e fo t ii n I l II h I CHUM cause they tried pried to t merchant merchants from i 1 II Chinese Chine port The vl vb 1 r fi beo been beIa Ute till prat of ot India h t I I of sit pounds pound r t debasing traffic track t ha has HUD very reI heart beset of the nation end nol r lUNI nt classes K are arc not M I Ithe v the tM where It belong H If Ih 11 |
