CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4] — Page 449

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balance of relevant evidence. is adverse to the contentions

of the Anti-opium League. And careful examination

of the conditions of the problem in Hongkong

has led me to entertain some doubt

whether those who favour measures

of extreme restriction in regard to the use of opium would be justified

in their views, so far at least as this Colony is concerned, even

if their premises were correct; while it further has convinced me that those premises

are in many particulars, and especially as regards the moral and physical effects

of the use of opium generally practised by the Hong Kong Chinese,

in irreconcilable with the facts and based on erroneous information

on a too hasty generalization from insufficient data. But I imagine that

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448 balance of relevant evidence. is adverse to the contentions of the Anti-opium League. And careful examination of the conditions of the problem in Hongkong has led me to entertain some doubt whether those who favour measures of extreme restriction in regard to the use of opium would be justified in their views, so far at least as this Colony is concerned, even if their premises were correct; while it further has convinced me that those premises are in many particulars, and especially as regards the moral and physical effects of the use of opium generally practised by the Hong Kong Chinese, in irreconcilable with the facts and based on erroneous information on a too hasty generalization from insufficient data. But I imagine that
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