On the 8th instant at the eighth meeting of the Anti-Opium Associa tion, General Chang Chih-chiang in the chair, Mr. Kung Hsiang-hsi, Minister of Commerce, Labour and Industry, delivered a speech in which he said, "Gentlemen and delegates, we are now at the be-gluting of the period of tutelage fad the National Government has convened © this great anti-opium meeting as a means of instructing cur people in one of the needs of this time, You have come from far off places and are gathered together irene in one hall to discuss the evils of opium smoking and methods for ite abolition." The first of these ngs you are already familiar with and there is ne need for enlarge on it, The only question that remains is the means to be ted to secure our desired ends. the flag of the clear sun in a hue sky we must teach the prin: [ciples. of Sanminis and the five powers of popular government. To understand these we need a people with strong bodies and sound minds. Opium smoking not only injures the dividual, it destroys the nation cripples the race. The National vernment is not the prerogative of a few individuals in Nanking, it is the people's government, accord-Ing to the saying, of the people, the people, and for the people. Let therefore unite and rise up and doing in this yereat cause.
Sapped by Smoking, hen, you know that Twas turn in Shansi; in Taikuhsien, the place more addicted to the use of opium then any other part of the province, It ured to be said that eleven out of ten people in Taiku smoked opium. That was because children, in the womb, already acquired a taste for the drug their mothers smoked. T had a friend who told me he intended to to Shuntung on business. But he dawdled for three years and never went because his resolution was sapped by opium. You see from this that if we do not sweep plum out of existence the principle of conserving the people's livelihood can never be put in operation. My. iden is that there is ro need for eloquent talk on this subject: we ye to get down te real hard work before we can accomplish anything. Thave known foreigners who smoked opium. but these men dared not to their own countries. There would get no opium to smoke so they stayed and died here.
"The sale of unti-opium pills in Shansi amounts yearly to a tarn-ever 6 dollars.
When one thinks of this vast sum of mores being spent on a useless bit that entails misery on those it makes one sad.
In 1924 when Chi Hsieh-yuan and La Yung-hsiang fought for the possession of Shanghai the whole struggle was for the control of the revenues derived from opium thie port. which were controlled fay the military who guaranteed safe songo for the drug. Every chest of opium was worth $2,000 to them. Six thousand chests of Persian opium found entrance yearly and Yunnan and opium was not included the count. When so much money wae st stake could fellows of that kind help putting up a fight for it?
And now the process of smoking ie simplified. T have seen, with my own eyes, a man take one of those white anti-opium pills, rush it to ler, place that on his pire and smoke it, This can be done anywhere at any time with no trouble "The Manchus' Suppression "The former Mancha dynasty suppressed opium by the severest measures but never reaped the benefit of their act. So we must all regard this work as our own Tosiness and put our whole strength nto it. From one standpoint we all reap a reward in seeing strong race reared up to mairtai our rights. From another we shall have the satisfaction of carrying our late President's commands and cleared our country of hope you will all persevere till vie-achieved." al Yang Shu-chuang. who asked to be examined medically i to prove that
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