Category: History - Other
About two years ago I had occasion to go thoroughly into the question of the opium-trade between India and China. Up to that time, knowing practically nothing about the matter except what the Anti-Opium Society and their supporters had to say on the subject, I was as zealous a...
Allowing, then, for all deductions on the score of "abkari" opium, and for a certain amount which the French colony of Chandernagore have a right to purchase at existing rates,...
3. Part 3But to return to the history of the foreign trade. As was mentioned above, the Chinese Commissioners of their own accord fixed the tariff duty upon opium at thirty taels. But, t...
7. Part 7Do away with this revenue and we sacrifice all chance of carrying out these reforms to a successful conclusion, and cripple our whole administration in India. But it behoves us...
6. Part 6"The passion of the Chinese for opium," says one writer, "was the first link in the chain which was destined to connect them at some future day with all the other families of ma...
5. Part 5And here it will not be amiss to institute a short comparison between the use of opium by the Chinese and the use of ardent spirits by ourselves. Those who agitate for a suppres...
2. Part 2In 1834 the East India Company's monopoly of trade to China came to an end, and the trade was taken up by Her Majesty's Government, who sent out a commission with Lord Napier at...
1. Part 1About two years ago I had occasion to go thoroughly into the question of the opium-trade between India and China. Up to that time, knowing practically nothing about the matter e...
8. Part 8[36] _Times_, Jan. 26, 1881. To the same effect is the evidence of Don Sinibaldo, who says (p. 3), "On pretend que l'opium produit chez lui une delicieuse ivresse, un doux somme...