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would entail is a far more serious question in the present state of the national exchequer than the similar problem with which the Indian Government will have to deal in sacrificing the opium revenue, and added to this is the immense difficulty of stopping the growth of the poppy in at least four large and distant provinces--Shansi, Shensi, Szechuan, and Yunnan-in most of which it is now the staple crop.
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Inclosure in No. 1.
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. N. JORDAN,
ce or Individual.
Extract from the "Peking Gazette" of September 20, 1906.
Imperial Decree,
SINCE the restrictions against the use of opium were removed, the poison of this drug has practically permeated the whole of China. The opium smoker wastes time and neglects work, ruins his health, and impoverishes his family, and the poverty and weakness which for the past few decades have been daily increasing amongst us are undoubtedly attributable to this cause. To speak of this arouses our indignation, and, at a moment when we are striving to strengthen the Empire, it behoves us to admonish the people, that all may realize the necessity of freeing themselves from these coils, and thus pass from sickness into health.
It is hereby commanded that within a period of ten years the evils arising from foreign and native opium be equally and completely eradicated. Let the Government Council (Cheng Wu Chu) frame such measures as may be suitable and necessary for strictly forbidding the consumption of the drug and the cultivation of the poppy, and let them submit their proposals for our approval.
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