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In order to ensure the still speedier sup-

-pression of the practice, poppy cultivation should be prohibit-

-od entirely within a period to be fixed, and proclamations should be issued by the provincial authorities threatening

members of the official classes persisting in the habit with

loss of their rank, and the rest of the population with enrol- -ment on a list of opium snokers giving their names, ages, and

places of residence which should be published broadcast. All

honours should be closed to them, and they should he treated as

pariahs, so that a stimulus for the abandonment of the practice

would thus be supplied by a man's natural ambition. This would

show that the Government's prohibition of the practice is not

due to a mercenary motive, and such a course would inspire

respect abroad and render a further reduction of foreign importa

of opium practicable.

Moreover, conditions vary in different

parts of China. In the North and West the suppression of poppy

cultivation is the most urgent step; in the South and East what

is requisite is the suppression of opium smoking. It is in the

maritime and riverine provinces of Kuangtung, Fuhkien, Kiangsu

and Chekiang that foreign opium has a larger sale than the

native drug, so that the prohibition of poppy cultivation in

China would enable the foreigners to find a greater market for

the sale of imported optu, so long as the yearly reduction was

no greater than at present. Hence prohibition of smoking is more

pressing than stopping cultivation. In Yunnan, Kueichow, Sauch- -'uan, Shensi, Shansi, and Honan the inhabitants smoke only

native opium, so that the reduction of cultivation implies a

similar reduction of opium smokers. But as some equilibrium

must be maintained between supply and demand and as most of the

native opium consumed in the South-East provinces comes from Yunan and Kueichow the immediate suppression in its entirety of the cultivation of the poppy in these provinces is imprac- -ticable. Local conditions will have to be considered in

conjunction with the amount of area under cultivation in each

province