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dations of the Conference as will tend to endow it with a monopoly of its own production of opium: But there will remain the very different question of bow, the monopoly once establish
THE TRUTH ALWAYS... When you are in doubt tell the truth." It od, it will proceed in regard to a matter that In Hongkong papers that have come to hand has for the Chinese government a fiscal was an experienced old diplomat who said this there appear brief telegraphic references an- aspect of immense importance. Already the to a beginner in the work. It may pass in some houseing the opening of the International shrinkage of opium revenue from the very things, but not in business. Fraud and decep Opium Commission at Shanghai. Although partial and sporadic measures taken to suppression am often profitable so long as concealed; brief these telegrams help to indicate that the the island cultivation of the poppy, is causing yet detection is certain sooner or later; then Conference is not intended by its promoters to the Chinese Government very real concern, comes the smash-up and the punishment. The catry out any invertigation into the general. And anxious inquiries are being made by the question of the use of opium sed the various Provincial Governments as to how the hiatus incidental administrative matters connected in the ravecue is to be made up. But therewith, but is rather meant to assume a the appearance of, suppression of opium foregone conclusion as the basis of a delibera production must be maintained long enough tions, which can result in little more than a
to persuada ladla to abandon altogether the a discussion arriving at a common understand production of opium, because there will be no ing as to the manner in which that foregone chance of a complete monopoly till then. But rests. The people have discovered that this conclusion may be best given éffact to. This, when that time comes, "China will be in the in the first place, may be inferred from the okupate position of being able to do just what medicine is exactly what it is aid to be, and selection of the Obairman, who is Bishop, it pleases, and we suspect that the course it will that it does what we have always declared it Brept, an. American cierie who bat, la find most satisfactory, because most profitable, will do. Its nature also has been frankly made boured fa' the Philippines, and was the Chair-will be the regulation and management of its known. It is palatable as honey and contains mn of the Philippine Opium Commission,wp revenue by domestic excise taxation, and, all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure which extended its enquiries to the Straits perhaps still more, by the much larger amounts Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod and India. Bishop Brent presides river the that will ultimately be produced from illegal livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of nicelings of the Conference with his mlod com importation of opium into every country where Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. A combination of supreme. pletely made up, and like the rest of the there are Asiatics who wish to consume it. excellence and medicinal merit. Nothing has American representatives, possesses those views so far as the Conference may, unwittingly, by which are more frankly partisan than judicial, its conclusions, aid the present Peking Govern been so successful in Anemia, Scrofula, Bron: No doubt this selection of Bishop Brent as
meat to shut out foreign opium, it will help chitis, Influenza, Loss of Flesh and. Wasting Chairman is due to the fact that the feter to bestowing upon China the monopoly of the Diseases, Weakness and Low, Nervous Tone, BOOKING at The Robinson Piano Company opens at 10 o'clock am., ©nacioval Conference was his original idea, com- | domestic and foreign supply of a commodity municated in a letter to President Roosevelt, that will continue to be consumed by mil. with whom the diplomatic, initiative lay. It is lines of Asiatics until the day arrives, when perhaps just as well that this should be so, for modern commerce shall have taught the Asiatic i would have been a difficult position if Sir Cecil the universal appreciation of alcohol. And we Clementi Smith, who is the most distinguished, believe that the new Government at Peking and so far as we know, the most capable and will do all in its power to encourage. the con- ference to help it to this megaifcest monopoly
experienced of the delegates in administration,
that is steadily approaching realisation:
TO-NIGHT, 20th February, 1909.
PRICES AS USUAL.
Hongkong, as.h February, 1909.
on Friday, 12th February,
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Auctions.
PONIES PONIES!
PONIES!
and all complaiots caused by Impure Blood, Dr. Austin D, Irvine of Canada, says: "I have used it in cases where cod liver oil. was indicated but could not be taken by the patient, and the results following were very gratifying." It is effective from the first dose and agrees with the most sensitive and nervous stomachi," It cannot deceive or disappoint you, and comes to the rescue of those who bave CINEMATOGRAPH,
received no benefit from any other treatment. It is possible enough that this demand for at stands for the medicinal triumphs of the age. monopoly of the control of opium by the Chi-
"Watch carefully against imitations." Sold by. Bese Government, through its chief representa chemists throughout the world. tive the Viceroy Tuan Faug mày have come as a sort of cold douche upon the most thorough. going faddists amongst the foreign delegates, What they may be able to come to compre head was that. His Excellency, practical
had been selected as The Chairman of a Conín, resce the majority, of which may be assumed to be impervious to argument on general grounds. The majority is instructed to act cin the fixed datam of restriction and gradual ex- tinction, so far as concerns their own national interests, and to aid in the framing of regula tions to bring these results about and to hid China in her alleged policy of suppression. This paragraph sufficiently explains the basis❘ly told them that so far as China" was of the Conference programme ;-
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TR.
NAVY CONTRACTS, 1903-10,
BALED TENDERS, in Duplicate, for the Supply of the undermaationed Stores for S H. M. NAVAL FORCES on the China Station, will be received by the DEPUTY VICTUALLING STORE OFFICER, H. M. Naval Yard, until Noon on FRIDAY, the 26th February, 1909:— FAES BEEF and VEGETABLES. FROZEN MEAT. SOFT BREAD. BISCUIT.
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concerned, they were all free to make what The scope of the inquiries of the Shanghai ever rules and, regulations. they liked re Opium Commission was contained in the reply garding the control of opium in their own given by Sir Edward Grey to a question in countries. But if and when China got the Parliament to the middle of December. He monopoly she was determined to exact by recited the text of the instructions which the treaty modification, she would take good case American Government bad given to their is that once opium was a domestic business of presentatives in the Commission, and said that her awo, she would go her own way and listen the British delegates would be furnished with, to no representations from foreign sources. instructions of similar lines. The American One thing that would be pretty certain is, that delegates are instructed 'io, the first place to
(here would be po opportunity given for med-- devise means to limit the use of opium in the dlesome outsiders to interfere with whatever 1-ited States and, secondly, to ascertain the policy the Chinese „Government thought fit best means of suppressing the opium traffic, i to zdopt in regard to its productions or conThe right to reject the lowell or any Tender such exists, among American citizens in the sumption of opiam, within les provinces. That is reserved. Far E. The third instruction to the Ameriwobld be China's own affair, and nothing is so can delegates directs them, in co-operation swiftly going to confer ou Chios the power of with the representatives of other Towers, to excluding an intrusive, it ignorantly well-meant propose measures, which the Governments may interference, than this perfectly intelligible de- adopt, "for the gradual suppression of opium mand for the alteration of all those treaties culúvation, traffic, and use within their Espero that contain conditions relating to the opium posse sions thusassisting China, in her purpose trade. If China secures her monopoly by the _of_eradicating_the_evil_stum_her_Empire"; kindly_pandering_of_the_faddist_majority...ön- ,while the fourth instruction directs them to in- the Conference, it will be millions to the form the Commission about regulations and | Chinese Treasury, And the anti-spium restrictions in force in the United States, and "to formulate and discuss proposals for amzading such regulations in points in which they may be found, in the course of the joint investigation, to affect the production, com merce, use and disadvantages of optum in the Far East."
At the first meeting there was no public admission, only the delegates and the repre- sentatives of the press being present. At future meetings the proceedings will be private and the press will not be present. Among the points mentioned in the telegraphic report is the fact that Mr. Carey, of the Imperial, Maritime Customs, is to be Secretary to the Conference. Another, that the senior French representative moved that the proceedings should be conduci. ed is the French language, a proposal that was supported by the Russian representative: M Kleimenow. The proposal is to ba examined by a sub-committer, but it is quite unlikely that it will be approved, The English language is so extensively used in Eastern trade and Eastern diplomacy, and is so generally the
agitation will come some fine day to under- stand that, the effect of the Cadference bas been that it has stultified their agitation by enabling China to become mistress in her own house. "Were it not for the fact that the, proceedings of the Copference may be made to react injuriously upon the finances of this Colony we might well afford, now that Tuat Fang has shown the cloved hool of the monopbly policy, to find some little amuse- 'ment in the further proceedings of the later. pational Opium Conference at Shanghai, br at least in what we shall be permitted to learn of those proceedings, -Singapore Free Press.
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sincere in her desire to suppress, the opium - babit. among her subjects. But 'with a signi- ficant insistence be urged that it was necessary for China to get the entire control of the apium trade into her own hands. His Excellency ex tolied the monopoly system, and urged ibst the special treatles should be revised in order the the-minopoly system might be, adopted by
· China. - "This - la, : very precisely, a declara- tion of the monopolistic policy that we felt convinced that China would adrp at the earliest practicable moment. Instead of -opium being," as now, a commodity-passed. through the Customs and, after paying duty, being distributed by traders in the ordinary course of business, the sale buyar would be the Chinese Government, until the day 'arrived when if chose to shut out all imports of opium from Jodia and Persia. It was only last month that we drew attention to the fact that the in- 'stitution of an opium monopoly would be view- ed by the present rather reactionary Chinese Government, as one way by which the joflacăce of the foreigner in Chios would be diminished. The pasings may be worth re-reading in the light of H. E. Tuan Fang's emphatic demand for the c'estion of a Chinese Government monopoly of opium. On the rgth`alty wa wrole as follows:-
If the present Government comes to the con- 'clusion that foreign influence will be weakened by the reduction and final exclusion of foreign [39 | grown opium; it will approve such recommen..
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