The Imperial Drug Trade
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Excerpt from The Imperial Drug Trade: A Re-Statement of the Opium Question, in the Light of Recent Evidence and New Developments in the East A Great controversy has long been waged over the opium trade from India to China. Of late, so far as the Press and Parliament are concerned, it has been practically in abeyance. Men once listened to - Earl Shaftesbury, John Bright, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Temple, Sir Joseph W. Pease, and others - have passed away; whilst the proceedings of the Royal Commission on Opium were admirably adapted to stay further unrest on the part of the general public. Sir A. C. Lyall, in the last edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, explains that "the agitation against the drug was laid for a further term of years by the Royal Commission." If so, the term is probably a short one, and nearly over. In truth, the proceedings of the Commission are only impressive so long as they are not examined and understood. When studied, they will be found to lessen the credit usually attaching to such semi-judicial inquiries, and to reflect on the impartiality of British tribunals appointed for temporary purposes. The Commission was indeed effective for allaying the agitation, largely because it synchronised with a change in the thought of the day much more important and difficult to grapple with than the inquiry itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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