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measures with regard to the use of Opium in the Philippines
almost identical with those of Japan.
To pass on to our own Colonies; in Australia
the Commonwealth Government, acting on the initiative taken by
the Chinese Community has issued a proclamation, prohibiting
the importation of opium into Australia, except for medicinal
use, from the 1st. of January, 1906. The Transvaal has passed a
yet more stringent measure of prohibition. In short, on all
sides there is evidence of a sincere desire to prohibit or to
limit, so far as possible, the traffic in, and use of, opium.
Your petitioners are earnestly desirous
that the relationship of the Hongkong Government to the traffic
should be amended. For, in our opinion, the present system of
Farming, which is in operation in this Colony, tends directly
to encourage the use of opium and for this encouragement the
Government is responsible. The Government is interested in
getting as much revenue as possible, and by calling for tenders
stimulates competition on the part of those, who bid for the
right of farming, to increase their bids for that right as much
as possible. The Opium Farmer must get his money back, and
therefore he uses every means in his power to encourage the
use of opium. He pushes his business to the utmost extent. The
Philippine Commission, in summing up the conclusions which it
had formed, strongly condemns the system of Farming for the
following reasons:-
(a). The farmer endeavours to increase his profits by
extending his business, and so the use of opium is increased.
(b). Extensive smuggling also exists under this
system, as found in those countries visited by the Committee.
(c). The matter of raising a revenue by such a system
exposes the Government to misapprehension and detraction.
(d). It is hardly moral to delegate to an individual,
not a representative of the people, such authority in the way
of supervising, detecting, and policing, as the farmer usually
exercises