Show OPIUM ANI AND one of the sources of revenue to governments as the world is caneti Js Is various vices to which i keople ale are addicted england Eo gland for instance derives millions ut af dollars every year from the opium traffic by which poor slaves of a corrupt ati appetite petito in chins china sod the islands ot of the indian archipelago and elsewhere are supplied with we the material ma trial that destroys dee troya body and sou 1 millions more moire are made from the liquor traffic hardly less lee rura noun physically and morally once in ID a while protests are made by people interested lu iu the reformation of Il lankin 1 and nd the effects affected oi 01 the poison on the human buman system are depicted to glowing gloving colure color it Is to is pointed out wat that a governments government to be it general or local that profits by a tr mo lideh side aide the breeding bree diax of poverty ori me ruin ruia Is to a large extent responsible lor for mines results result it is la therefore a matter of necessity for governments 0 so o challenged to defend themselves and liene rally the defense comes in the form of opinio is of nodular physicians or reports of official co mm lesions recently two british royal commis eions alone have published the results of their investigations as to the opium and whisky habits babits la in their relation to crime and disease the opium commission was aPpolo appoint eil ted under a resolution of parliament and was charged with the duty of ascertaining whether the traffic raffle in abat drug except for medical puro purposes oses could be suppressed sed without violating viol atins terms of at agreement with the native indian statts states pad nd detriment to the revenues i aties ahli on point cauli nothing else than tire of the traffic would resort in diminished revenue bat what lot lii remarkable to is that chat the endeavors endear ors to deny the evil consequences of the use nee of opium we find go fio evidence those ilent gentlemen lowen guy ay of extensive moral or physical from the use of they declare its if use to li to in some gome omee cases ben enolal and for the mont part without injurious they further state that its iti non noo medical are 0 o interwoven with the medical uses that it if would he be d to drw a distinction between thetla them one dike cannot ae te without the other the whisky investigation was waa hold held under so an order of secretary and amerell ov erel Enal anid and walen the report of this commission was that it failed to any connection between drunkenness drun kenneM and crime As tb abie pe gentlemen saw aw it people who were habitual drunkards drao karda sometimes were mod mo delBin elsin other respect ott it they further state whitt what JS Is no doubt true that no connection necessarily egisti between I 1 poverty and crime crime erg re as aa on numerous marons morons in years as aa in hard times and cities where poverty prevails are no more hotbeds for crime than wea wealthier it what Is most striking in these official ire Is in the evidently concerted action to burnish the government an ex ouse case for the continuation of derivi deriving nw revenue from nuon sour bourcier BO urcer cep the protests of the reform element will hence forth meet the assertion that their representations are not supported by facts it ought bot to be a subject of doubt that both whisky anu ano opium so as wed aped by those addicted to the drugs druge to is injurious to the system the drunkard and toe opium smoker generally not exceptionally find an early grove grave ano ami the seeds ot of disease sown in their own are not infrequently found to breakout break out in physical mud intellectual se well its as moral weaknesses iu in their tn t the third and fourth generation era tion poverty and misery in the jijine are often results of that kind of intemperance it ft ouid osuld probably proba oly be bown by faurl fl agures gures that the revenue of 0 any t from these sources sou roes li is a compared to t t tb he a fia ti ancial ruin wrought and it in i indeed that an attempt to lustily justify the traffic 00 oo 00 the plea af u its arral I 1 innocence a oreace can be b made alter years of incessant labur labor for reform by temperance societies opium and whisky remain the curse cures of nations ione notwithstanding the reports of df interested cariie pari ie |