6.
farmer
can
suppress it, and there will always be
a large quantity of opium this taken out of the legal market. Nor can the precautions of the Government prevent the oppressions of the servants of the Famer conducted under color of discovering itheit sales. A chinese will not question the right
daily asserted.
of
as it is one
Search and seizure, as
and acted on
by his
intimer in China undu
Countymen
~
Similar Ceroumstances, in the sall
much more
in the salt monopoly for
instance, and when they suffer loss they will be
:likely to desert the Port than to seek English tribunal . Tracers must
redress at an
thus be driven to seek another market and the
revenue derived
suffer
from the farm will,
an annual decrease.
1 probably
The collection of the revenue is certainly
made without trouble or expence,
and this seems
the
to be almost the only advantage possessed by Syptem.
an
3. Under the arrangement proposed, of untimited number of licenses to be issued to
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all who choose to pay for them, there would be purchasers for the same amount of opium
ao
at present. In proportion to the number of dealers, se would the facilities of illinit sale dearcase,
as
there would be so
Anany more av
many
now
the look out
a
for its discovery. Perhaps the whole, containly large part of the opin illietly sold would return to the legal market, the necessity for
de much
de
the preventive establishment would cease, and the dealers would be enabled to sell by so cheaper
every ivere
they to realize the bug
high profits
of the Farmer. But this they will not do as
competition will na
turally
and
effectively prevent
it. If theyfore the amount of the now paid be no
more
: the circumstances mentioned alove, it.
be
than the trade is able to bear in consideration
may collected with much greater benefit to the Colony
by the proposed than by the existing system, if st be greater, it will be the cause of its cours destruction.
reduced. Pint the reduction in if not speedily
the one case will tend only to enrich the farmer