Now what are the results attained? It is said that already opium growing and opium smoking have bean altogether uprooted in many of the provinces, including the three provinces of Manchuria, In' fact the number of these opium-cleared provinces is set down fourteen out of twenty-one, But Kuangtung is charged with being the laggard one, and both as to the growth of the poppy and the use of he prepared drug, she is far behind what has been done in other places. Therefore, there is this earnest appeal to the better nature of the people, and to the officials to be up and doing.
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