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moderate use of alcohol and that of opium. The former is in many cases distinctly beneficial but the latter baneful. Alcohol is in all instances an article of food and a stimulant but opium a drug and a powerful poison. This is my impartial judgment, and I am a total abstainer both from alcohol and opium. On the other hand the evil effect, both morally and physically, on the Chinese arising from the abuse of alcohol is fully commensurate with those from the abuse of opium. The evil effect of over-indulgence in alcoholic drinks on the weak and sedate constitution of the Chinese are most pronounced. Among Europeans I have observed many bad examples, but some of the worst, I believe, are to be found among the Chinese. Happily the abuse of alcohol among the Chinese is comparatively rare, and the worst cases are those who have either been abroad or to the Coast Ports, and contracted the habit elsewhere other than at home.
The Chinese public universally condemn opium smoking as degrading and injurious, and this opinion is shared by many of the smokers themselves, and I have noticed with wonder and amusement that some few of them were enthusiastic supporters of anti-opium society. The opinions of Chinese ladies on this subject are especially strong and well worth a hearing, as they are in all instances the actual though innocent sufferers. The habitual over-indulgence in intoxicating liquors is not common among the Chinese, so that in the mind of a Chinaman, there can be no comparison between that habit and the habit of opium-smoking. The former he regards with indifference or amusement, the latter with pain and aversion.
Yes, but only very few. Those who voluntarily and without compulsion attempt and succeed, I should regard as something more than human.
If the supply of Indian opium were to be cut off, opium consumers here would simply supply themselves with it from elsewhere, from the mainland of China for example. Some few may take to alcohol, but not likely. A good number would try to relieve their cravings by taking morphia, or the various preparations of morphine, either by subcutaneous injection or by the mouth, and some who would attempt the difficult task of curing themselves of the habit altogether.
I am firmly of opinion that the mere stoppage of supply of opium from India by itself does not stop the opium habit among the Chinese, but the Chinese Government must operate, and that earnestly and faithfully, allowing no officials, either high or low, under any...
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