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sympathy in any serious effort she may make to stamp

out the evil.

Apart from the difficulty of reforming people by

legislative enactment, the fiscal side of the question

is a very important factor in the situation and one

which will appeal to the Chinese quite as much as it

would to any Western Government. The foreign import

which has been a gradually dwindling quantity during

the last twenty years stood in 1905 at 51,890 piculs,

of which 50,200 piculs were Indian, producing a reve-

nue of Taels 5,711,711 (£859,136). It is calculated

that the total production of native opium is about ten

times as great as that of the foreign import and that

the revenue derived from it amounts to about Taels

45,000,000,

(£6,768,750).

The policy during the last few years has been to

centralize this revenue and either make it available

for Imperial needs, or earmark it for such definite

purposes as Conservancy work at Shanghai or the pay-

ment of loans contracted by provincial authorities.

The dislocation of the finances which the enforcement

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