Rocher and Hippisl the Shanghai Tr ports, given itas their opinion that the sale of "morphia ought to be ly restricted. Clu nine the use of this prey from opium by) the Chine spread with rem: Vor the first time, mo in Trade Reports among foreign stun 1 189%. Before this it was only cov up under the general title of cines in the annual Refaras which are published by the Imperial Customs. The annual import amounts now to about 150,000 ounces, while 1891 the in the oune import reached 1898, the amount fennecs. The Comni: that. the morphia habit is makin: An inops, both Amoy and in the interior, advertise morphia pills as a cure for the opin habit; generally it is taken in the taneous morphia is ids contained in opin ud cheaper, and, being more ni lent for use, a greater number persons are able habit: the il bottle is $3 to crease in the use of morphia at Amoy is accompanied by a diminution in opium import. In 1897, Amoy purchased 4,306 piculs of foreign opium, piculs which was less by 12 per cent. At the same time poppy crops go on increasing in are: ery year The total production of native opium wis in 1897 valued at $2,400,000 for the district in which Amoy is situated native opium bought at Amoy amounted to 1,000 piculs in 1895. This was brought from Yunnan and Szechuan, Ifwe compare these Fyures with those of the year 1882, when the entire import of Opium at Amoy 8,000 piculs, there is a pro ty that the disastrous opium habit still increasing in apart of China where it has existed for about 170 This is unhappily a picture all China: the people will against remonst injure themselves by this h They expend the capital made by their labour in the rural se fadistinetly injurious article. This prevents the use of the capital in productive industry is us cflect of the opin h is very clearly seen in the trade in In 1898, the Amoy The opium habit. through the misemployment of ital, has caused the exper sixteen point of that the the me dustrial produc Chine jabour: the falling recurs in sugar 7 ity full ele. to 716,000, The export pape fell during the: so on ye from the value 16,000 to the value Ts, 266,000. The tea expe has fallen frou value of a 147,000, Opin is th fand it cost th in IS) he ent at Swatow amounted to THs. 7,000,000, in Is und ty Ts, 13,000,000- in Morphia is not mentioned in the imports and it is probably still unknown there. The foreign opium importer dropped from 10,000 ISTH te 4.500 in 1S8s, epinine paid duty ISOS. Ttamay be conclude fore that, because is less ion to the opium in tow, there is a_grenter development of the industry produce: wealth. lence on this point it may be mentioned thas in the Tr: Report for 1895, Mr.
npson ed that the small area devoted to peppy cultivation ne
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