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exercises. To exercise such authority is a function of the
Government only. (Report of Philippine Commission p. 46).
Again in discussing the conditions of the
traffic in Java where farming had been tried and bandoned; as
was also the case in Saigon, the Committee writes:-
*The old system of farming out the sale of
Opium. in fact, not only was counteractive in practice, as far
as the gradual reduction of the consumption of that drug was
concerned, but it was also a source of corruption and bribery
of Government employees on the part of the Chinese farmers, who
were tempted to extend the sale of the drug to persons who were
unauthorized to buy it. It was also the cause of frequent dis-
-turbances, in cases where it was employed by unprincipled
persons as a means of revenge. These persons would surreptitious-
-ly place opium in the houses of private persons, and then
maliciously and falsely accuse them of possessing opium clan-
-destinely. The principal reason for the abandonment of this
system was that the farmer, in order to push his business,
exhausted all available means to extend the sale of his
merchandise". (I bid p. 38).
The experience in Hongkong has not been very
dissimilar to that in Java.
Your petitioners are not prepared to make
a recommendation to the Government with regard to what alter-
-native system of dealing with the use of Opium, whether by
High Tariff, or High Licence, or Prohibition, or Government
Monopoly (which last is recommended by the Philippine Commission)
it would be best to adopt in Hongkong. To do so would be beyond
our province. What we do most earnestly desire is this; that
our Government should be clean-handed in this matter, and should
use its great influence and authority to check rather than to
encourage the use of this injurious drug. With this end in view
we would conclude with two definite petitions to Your Excellency:-
(1). That Your Excellency will cause careful inquiry
to