Our anti-opium association did its best to encourage the farmers not to cultivate opium, amongst other reasons, because of the strictness of the' law. The farm themselves were well aware that Chang Chin-yao's continuance office was by no means a matter on which they could feel any assurance and, if he were to run away between the planting and the reaping of an opium crop, they would be left to bear the' brunt of the strict claw which would then be enforced upon them. My "experience" here is very definite: I, who enjoy the privileges of extratertitoriality," very largely bee cause 1 than enjoyed them, was invited by Chinese friends" who were debarred of the actual privilege conferred by extraterritorial ity, ie, the privilege of a just law justly administered, to help them oppose the unjust administrator of their own over-strict law.
Can the men who appeal to their experience" as the basis of thei the existence of exipaterritoriality seriously affects the suppression work" give any parallel to this experience of mine?
In due course, Chang Chin-yao aid run away, driven out by Tan Yen-kai, who had previously been a strict' administrator of the strict Jaws suppressing opium. 'To all intents and purposes Chang Chin-yao's attempts to mislead the farmers had failed—there was a very limited success, hardly worth chronic ling, when with Chang Chin-yao' help, Chang Chung-ch'ang, (als a legally appointed—"militarist," then resident in Liling) smuggled some five tons of opium seed—which certainly did not produce cither 60 fold or 30 fold—I doubt whether they ever produced a single ton of fresh seed.
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