Round the World
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By all means let us have the two kinds analyzed and see whether the blood be just the same. The opium question has given rise to much angry discussion upon which we do not propose to pass an opinion. My readers may safely assume, I think, that the difficulties we encounter in restraining or abolishing the use of liquor among ourselves, also surround the opium question in the East. It is their liquor. China grows most of what she consumes, and I believe would grow it all if the Indian drug was n...ot ad- mitted. Its exclusion by the Chinese would not there- fore seriously lessen its use. Still it places England in a false position before the world to enforce its ad- mission by treaty stipulations. The sum involved to the Indian revenue exceeds seven millions sterling per annum ($3S,ooo,cxx)) ; that is the net yearly profit made out of the growth of the poppy. It would not all The Opium Question. 213 be lost, and perhaps not be seriously reduced, were China free to exclude it, for large quantities would be smuggled in, and the people would have it.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
By all means let us have the two kinds analyzed and see whether the blood be just the same. The opium question has given rise to much angry discussion upon which we do not propose to pass an opinion. My readers may safely assume, I think, that the difficulties we encounter in restraining or abolishing the use of liquor among ourselves, also surround the opium question in the East. It is their liquor. China grows most of what she consumes, and I believe would grow it all if the Indian drug was n...ot ad- mitted. Its exclusion by the Chinese would not there- fore seriously lessen its use. Still it places England in a false position before the world to enforce its ad- mission by treaty stipulations. The sum involved to the Indian revenue exceeds seven millions sterling per annum ($3S,ooo,cxx)) ; that is the net yearly profit made out of the growth of the poppy. It would not all The Opium Question. 213 be lost, and perhaps not be seriously reduced, were China free to exclude it, for large quantities would be smuggled in, and the people would have it.
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