Chinese Who Are Mainly Responsible for Evil in Their Own Country Menace Bulletin,".says:— do not think that the widespread attitude that China is to be considered the victim of the imposition of other nations is wholly justified by facts. I should like to ask, for one, how many Chinese employees are there in the 13 Japan-jose morphia factories, and how many Chinese narcotics agents are there in Japan and Germany, Switzerland and Holland?" As one who lived on the borders of Kiangsi and Kui chow during the so-called suppr sion of opium campaign in 1914- 1917 the sincerity of China in desir. ing to get rid of native opium did not impress me, nor others who are in possession of those facts. Also with experience of runners New Zealand and in Australia; and morphia pill-makers: in this country ain I impressed with the statement that if Japan and other countries cease to send morphia to China that the trade would in way diminish. believe Chinese manufacturers would jeering up all over the country in such" an eventuality, just pill-makers "now are, agents allover the world. I nevertheless believe }that if the Chinese agents this country were suppressed by the Government the trade would largely diminish, A man who, was fined, [and driven from Wuhu @ few years ago came here, and is now doing a big pill business on this street. Ho [gets his morphin from Chinese agents in Shanghai. While we are glad of the fact that you are using your influence to draw attention to the Japanese, German, and other leontraveners of the Hague Convention, yet we think that a stern attitude should always be adopted {towards Chinese, who in opium are \such great offenders and, Jopinion, will be the chief manufac:
turers of morphia, and heroin in the world inside a decade, "If China is allowed to grow opium ad tid. she will fool the world Jeventually with it, and, perhaps, morphia too. The amount that is going abroad now shows this. There \was one, while I was in Kueichow, 500 tons' of opium collected in one Jeity on its way to foreign markets—fat least the bul of It. Two wrongs cannot make a lit. Tf at present difficulty felt in. keeping out foreign drugs one is not convinced that a lenient policy towards China will fetp: matters: On the other" hand fecnmant reseure'on hit to hep Gown the" ensemoat umber f- her traffickers will surely be the best pressure to use as a lever in dealing with offending countries. If foreign countries are considered the chief offenders in sending drugs to Ithis country yet surely—the fact that the of the Chin-Jere want the drugs, and brondeast them, once procured, cannot be far behind in the order of offences. If the Chinese Government, and' the Chinese people could convince the world that they do not desire these dregs, it would be time then to [adopt a lenient attitude towards Hthelr offences. I, for my part, have heard two statenients more convining in an opposite direction. One, from Chinese in more than one part of the country, and many times repeated, says, "The only way to stop the Chinese from trading in opium is to shoot him" (Of course 1 would not approve of such a course), and the other by Customs official abroad, "Wherever the Chinese you will have opium, and nothing known to human justice can prevent it," As a Customs official at home I had ample proof of the fact that, in my country Chinese were the worst offenders in drugs of all kinds.
"I write this in the hope that one Jday the drug traffic may be got under control; and to state that, while we are all trying in our little way to work for China's good, yet jwe should not be blind to the fact that China has not made any serious effort to control drugs, and, I believe, never will s0 long as she feels herself pitied as a victim some country. jessedly more International ion, Peking.
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