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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