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imitate them, it is obvious that, as the returns for the last

year indicate, a reduction of 20

30%, a few years more will

witness the complete eradication of the evil. Were an official

opium monopoly to be started, a definite amount of opium would

require to be fixed upon for purchase on the basis of that fixed

upon in regard to foreign opium, and what use could be made of ~

the amount of opium annually left over? It would be utterly

useless long before the date assigned for its final suppression,

and a possible result might be that the foreigners would compel

us to purchase up the whole ten years' supply of the drug.

(3).

The third reason against it is as follows:-

The establishment of an official bureau

would necessitate a most careful system of inspection. An

enormous expense was incurred in Formosa by Japan in regulating

her system of an official monopoly and China's police system is

but newly organised and as yet incomplete for carrying out such

a system. Besides, wealthy opium smokers provided themselves with

sufficient supplies of the drug to satisfy their future needs

when the order for its prohibition was first issued. The

establishment of an official monopoly would result in causing

embarrassment to the poorer classes, while the rich would remain

unmolested. A system of rigid inspection would imply domiciliary

visits at any hour to all houses where opium smoking was

suspected, and this would result in abuses and oppression.

In order to rid our people of this evil

without enforcing any oppressive measures, the best course is to adopt an arrangement indirectly based on the principle of

official sales, as proposed by the Department of Governmental

Affairs; viz.:- that all establishments selling opium and all opium smokers shall be supplied with permits, omission to secure such being punishable by a heavy fine and the scale of fees for the same being raised in amount on the basis of the proposals drawn up by present memorialists and the Ministry of the

Interior.

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