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to local circumstances;" and again, the result of our enquiry o destre tổ53
record our opinion................that eliminution of
the opium habit is a matter not so much for
logislation as for education by the Chinese
the.nolvos to the state of erudicating the desire for opium and tùia education, we beliove, the Chinees generally are capable of undertaking, and in many oLees ...re willing
to undertake”.
To trazonious progress made in
Chin. botmon to yourɑ 1907 "uon the
cup___) ___inst opium baun und 1917 "hen
the growth of tue poppy and the use of opium
moro practically suppressed ia u strikin
oxumple of how profess can be mide when
the fooling of the canity supporta the
ov monts policy. It is true that since
1 17 there has been a serious set izek in
the position in Ching, but this may be but
temporary and in susily „ccounted for by the
Hisorded state of the country unier whí ch
corrupt silitry and civil officials,
practically free from control by any contral
authority have oncoured the „roth of the poppy to fill usir own pockets and to pay
their private buido of retuinors.
Institutions such as the National
Red Cross Societies are peculiarly well
jualified to un lortake ochucational and
propaundiat work in their respective
countries which will bring the ngium habit
into popular diuroputs and help to prevent a
new gneration from „cquiring it. They should also be able to take practical
3upations for reformand to furnish
avicence
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