THE CURSE OF OPIUM.
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[An essay written by a Chinese Titerate on a
subject given by H. E. Chou Fu, formerly Customs Tactal of Tientsin: What are the first necessary factors to augment the strength and wealth of China: philosophy, national talent, commerce and trade, mining enterprise, railroads, financing, or military and naval organization?"] Different men will advocate different lines of action as the most necessary for strengthening and enriching the Chinese Empire, but as for me, the very first step demanded for attaining to the object in view is the exclusive prohibition of opium. And why? Because oplum is the source of poverty, and the fountain of weakness; without eradicating this patential source of weakness and poverty, the enrichment and strengthening of China will be impossible.
Foreigner in introducing opium into China,
are not simply desirous of seeking gain, their ulterior motive is to impoverish and debauch China.
Judging from the stringency with which they
prohibit oplum in their own country, and their eagerness in introducing. It inte ours, it is not difficult to understand their intentions. Is their action juvifible by the principles of interna tional law? Not only do they introduce opium into Chine, but they assist us to collect revenue guard against smuggling, and to further the consumption of drug.
What is their motive for so doing? Because they are well aware that China, in her pressing defence of the maritime coast, must have need and incessant demands for providing for the of vast funds, which funds she cannot supply out of her treasury, but must procure from the revenue on opium,
But, Inashuch as China will not of her own accord seek to enlarge the trade in opium for the sake of the revenue, nor will she take the requisite steps to prevent smuggling, it follows as a matter of necessity that foreigners must do it for her. When the consumption of opium is limited, it cannot weaken China; and if the revenue from the same is inconsiderable China cannot be impoverished Alas! When will the continual incoming of the "black dirt? (opium) and the exhaustle's outflow of our white silver cease!
But these visible effects of opium are an nothing compared with the invisible evil influences of the opium habit. Opium is a thing which, while a highly noxious poison, has the quality of making people forget it as such, and creates in its consumers an insatiable
That is why foreigners call it "Opi or its use.
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them by treatles, and hurling them against opposing confederatione. The two principal groups are Ch'in and its adherents in the North.. west; and Chi Chao and others in the East. The principal agents in arraigning them against each other are two diplomatists named Suchis and Changl.
They issued from the same school, but they became implacable enemies, and their lives were spent in a ceaseless conflict.. Su was the senior, and he had the good for tune to be the first to conceive and carry out a magnificent' project.. That was the formation into a solid phalanx of the six Ea tern States to resist the advance of the rising power of the
North-west.
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Alone and unfriended he presented himself at the Court of Yen, on the site of our present Peking. Here it was, on the very ground where we are now assembled, that the grand drama began to unfoldy Wis open the doom of the Without money or influence, great; and for a whole year danced attendance on numerous courtiers before he could induce
Prince.
anyone to procure him an interview with the
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lion of the depreciated assets has been made, from which it appears, that in mike due provision On his way home Chanvi visited the court of for all losses, and reduce the securities to an Han, and succeeded in detaching the Prince of undoubted saleable value, it is necessary to that country also from the confederacy. He had absorb the reserve fund, and to write off 3 gone forth alone and unattended--a voluntary per share from the existing 10 shares. With vletim offering to be sacrificed to the resentmentà view, to replace the capital if the bank, and of an enemy. He returned, leading in his train further to increase the proportion of capital to Iabilitis, it has been decided to extend the the envoys of two basille powers.
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hereafter be deemed desirable. The success of remainder reserved for future issue, should it the issue is assured. One result of the circular has been a fall of 1 in the price of the shares, which close to-day at ion-piece, or at pir The lowest prices recorded in the past seven years have been as follows:
Sent on special missions to the other powers, he had the satisfaction of seeing them alen brought to accept the liegs money of the Prince of Chin.
The paper goes on to show how the miner states were alternately attracted and repelled like electrified balls; and how the Eastern con- federacy was in part resuscitated by the labours of Kungsun Yes, a diplomatist, who on that account is sometimes compared to Su. It relates the diplomatic triumphs of Llu Siang-j the Prince of Ch'in to keep time to his master's to his master a priceless gem; and in compelling music. This last incident is compared to the audacity of Bismarck in lighting his cigar in the Austria had the the Diet
restoring
presence of the leadership of the Did he
The object of the paper is to show diplomacy in action rather than to set forth rules or theories; hence an apparent excess of hi torical detail. There were recognized rules forming kind of code, as shown in the writer's paper an
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That interview was decisive. Su was not the In either case a trivial set was invested with only one who saw the danger to which the other a grave political significrnce, and it required states were exposed by the aggressions of hindiniamatic talent of the highest order to turn it but he alone saw bow it could be averted. In to account. eloquent terms the set forth the necessity. of immediate action; and showed that the only hope of successful resistance lay in the formation of an alliance, which, diverting the forces of the six states from the mad work af mutual against a common foc. The prince was delighted, destruction, would turn their united strength the feasibility of the scheme was no longer doubtful, and by carrying it into execution he would secure to himself the honour of taking the lead in a patriotic movement of unparalleled importance. He invested Su with the rank of ambassador; and despatched him with letters of credence to the Courts of the other five powers- precedent, which the Chinese of our day, still keep in view when they send an envoy with credentials to half the powers of Europe.
Su exposed to each his plan of mutual defence, and obtained from each a pledg of adhesion, conditional on the co-operation of all.
By gaining the Prince of Chu.. he forged successfully the last link of his long chain--a chain strong enough to confine an unscrupulous aggressor within bounds; and to secure in a great mensure the blessings of peace to a family of states hitherto discordant and belligerent
For fifteen years," says the historian, "the armies of Chin did not dare to show themselves outside the mountain pass of Hanku,"
The man who could effect this was worthy of all the honours that could be heaped upon him: His chief dignity was that of President of the Sextuple League; and in order that height reader it effective each of the six powers con.. ferred on him the seal of a separate chancellor. ship.
When one smoke it moderately its effect is stitmulating and invigorating, besides alleviating pain and sustaining the intellectual faculties; when taken in excessive quantities, it create habitual craving and leaves its victim Impaired in vitality and energy, and reduced in flesh and blond. When perple are thus impaired, they and have not the vitality to attain to old age, this is an essential source of weakening to China. The tendency of opium is also to demoralise and render idle its victime; so that when once having contracted the habit, they will become thoroughly corrupt and indolent, willing to do nothing, and ready, if necessity requires, to abandon parents and relatives, to steal and rob, and even sell wife and children. This is a potent source of impoverishing our people. As time goes on this impoverishment and weakening will continue, so that at last nothing will be left to posterity but ruin. Alas! since it is the intention of foreigners to thus sap China's strength and resources is not the absolute pro-speech, by asking "If it was not better to be the bibition of opium the first step toward China's regeneration and enrichment?--Skin Pao..
DIPLOMACY In Ancient CHINA.
The masterly arguments by which Su con. quered his ascendancy are given in extenso in the voluminous work of Stema. They read more like state papers than like the speeches that ivy is wont to put into the mouth of his heroes, How skilla ly be adapts his mode of address to the disposition of each ruler ? In one he kindles ambition, in another jealousy; he fatters the pride of a third, and awakens the shame of a fourth.
This last case is worth particularising. The prince of Han was inclined to attach himself to the great power of the West. Su concluded his
head of a chicken than the tail of an ox)"- proverb which, from its use on that occasion, 'bra acquired an undying celebrity.
To Su's brother. Sutal, himself a skilful diplo matist, ie ascribed the proverb: "When bird and cyster fight together, the fisherman bags both," one of those shining nuggets, which in China the departing stream of time has left so
its sands, plentifully scattered among
The elder Su, by yielding to a tender passion, and becoming involved in an undiplomatic intrigue, did more to undo his life-work than his worst enemy had previously been able to effect.
That enemy was Changi, his quandam comrade at the school of Devil's Hollow. In talent little. if at all inferior to Su, Chang's career is wanting in that unity which imparts a kind of grandeur to the achievements of the former. His life was divided between internal administra- tion and external politics. As administra- for and military chief he served by turns two or three states, always securing a temporary pre- the one that employed him-un- ponderance
[Abstract of a paper read by Dr. Martin at a meeting of the Peking Oriental Society on the 25th of October.} Diplomacy is an art new to the Chinese, but one for which they evince a marvellous aptitude. With them it is the revival of a lost art-one which rose with the feudal institutions of the Chows, and flourished most in the stormiest period of that famous dynasty. Diplomacy may be defined as the art of conducting the intercourse of nations. It supposes the existence of states that carry on their intercourse on a footing of equality. This makes it evident why it flourished In the period referred to why it disappeared like a stream absorbed in the sands of a boundless detert; and why it has re-appeared in our own day, after an interval of more than two thousand years. The triumph of Chin, by which all rival states were swept from the arena, was the death-blow of ancient diplomacy. The As a negotiator he effected one or two partial empire was thenceforth one and indivisible from the desert of Tartary to the borders of Burmah, and from the foot of the Himalayas to the shores of the Eastern sex. No rival, no equal, was known to exist on the face of the globe. Envoys no longer sped on secret missions from court to court. Alliances ceased to be formed, because there was no state whose friendship could bring strength, or whose opposition could occasion danger. Diplomacy in any proper sense was impossible, and all that the Chinese of later ages could know of it was a legend of the past, which connected itself with a few illustrious names..
The best way to treat the subject on the present occasion is to take up some of those names, and endeavour to evoke from them the busy actors in a slow but momentous revolution.
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To trace the steps by which a petty principality in the north-west attained to auch preponderance that all the other states combined to check its progress forms one of the most instructive chapters in Chinese history; but it does not belong to the subject of this papes. The princes of Chin, rude and uncultivated as they were, displayed for the most part that element of great Bess which consists. In the choice of the Buest Instruments These they sought both at home and abroad, attracting to their Court men of talent from neighbouring countries by offer of high office and great rewards. One instance out of many will suffice to illustrate the effect of this policy. A young man by the name of Shang Yang, who was well versed in political cience, sought employment with the Prince of Wel. The prince hesitated. Kill him,
sid his Minister, if you do not employ him but never permit him to give his great abilities to the service of a rival state, The prince still hesitated and Shang Yang proceeded to the Court of Ch'io, where he was warmly welcomed and reformed everything from. the tenure of land to the discipline of the army, It was largely through his influence that his alopted country attained such power as to threaten the Independence of the other principalities,
It was here that diplomacy came on the stage a leading factor in deciding the destiny of The diplomat became the most come icuous figure of the age, rising above, the generals, because generals matched as he directed more" inquential 'evon, then princes,
the prince
like his rival who served six at once, and pro- moted equally the interests of all..
alliances; but his chief claim to distinction is the skill he displayed in sowing discord among the members ofthe eastern league.
Smarting under an insult received from Su when the league was still in a nebulous condition, he posted away to the capital of Ch'in, resolved to devote his life to the destruction of the league, as the best way of taking revenge. Winning the confidence of the Prince, he rose to the highest positions in the state, being sometimes general, sometimes diplomasic envoy, and more than once clothed with the dignity of Prime Minister.
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LINES TO A GLOBE-TROTTER.
"There be rats and rats."—Hamlet, Trotter of the Globe who trottest Up and down in every clime, From the coldest in the hottest-- Listen to my simple rhyme.
Thou who seekest pleasure, taking Dollars from thy father's tills, Dollars which be earned in making Snap, or antibilious pills,
He, good soul, when he had made his Pile, at home did gladly any; Lived at ease, and still displayed his H's in his curious way. But he gave thee mental padding. (Many hundreds pounds it took) ; Then, alas ! he sent thee gadding On the lines laid down by Cook. Yes I see in thee the feller, Type of this exploring age, Who, with deftly used umbrella Prods the monkey in his cage. Sadly Egypt sees thee crawling' Up the landmarks of her race, Scaling Cheop's tomb and scrawling "Smith-bis mark" upon its face. Sadly India sees thee linger By her holy Ganges' tide. Painting out with ribold finger Spots described-in Murray's guide. Not with pious joy, but slowly, Sadly, to his evening prayer • Goes the priest of Vishnu, lol the Reason is that thou art there, Sad the Japanese who sees thy Curious hat and awful clothes, Feeling that no art can please thy Taste, which nought but shoddy knows. Sad the Daimio's though's and bitter (Ah I that glory's sun should pale), Whilst his country thou dost litter With cheroots and Base'r Ale. And he fully realiser By the note-book in thy hand, Thou will print asr any lies an There are temples. bis land. Gentle trotter, I would pray thee, Keep away from China's shore- Any other land will pay thee, For thy time and trouble, more. All our Treaty Ports are sleepy, Scarcely worthy of abuse;" Not the sort of place to keep a Diary for future use,
No we have no startling wonders, Nothing really fit to show. And our most authentic Bunders Have Been published years ago. Trotter of the Globe thy legions Swarm now yearly worse and worse; If it keep thee from these regions Not in vain my humble verse.
TUNO CHIA,
It was in bis diplomatic character that be performed the most marvellous feats. Labouring to undo the work of Su, he continued to keep-Chinese Times. him in a state of perpetual anxiety during his life-time, and ultimately to effect the dissolution of the confederacy Immediately on the death of jis author...
The most remarkable incident in his career occurred in the kingdom of Ch'u.
The army of Chu had been totally routed in conflict with Ching and the Prince of the latter demanded as the price of peace the cession of a disputed territory in exchange for another.
"No," replied the vanquished chief, "give me your Chancellor, who has always been plotting mischief against me, and I will surrender the territory, without asking a foot of ground in exchange.
This was a Httle like Philip's demand for the surrender of Demosthenes proposition which the orator likened to wolves demanding of shepherds the surrender of their dogs as a condition of peace.
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