Drugging a Nation

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Samuel Merwin. Drugging a Nation

Drugging a Nation

Table of Contents

I

CHINA’S PREDICAMENT

II

THE GOLDEN OPIUM DAYS

III

A GLIMPSE INTO AN OPIUM PROVINCE

IV

CHINA’S SINCERITY

V

SOWING THE WIND IN CHINA—SHANGHAI

VI

SOWING THE WIND IN CHINA—TIENTSIN AND HONGKONG

VII

HOW BRITISH CHICKENS CAME HOME TO ROOST

VIII

THE POSITION OF GREAT BRITAIN

Appendix—A Letter from the Field

THE OPIUM CLIMAX IN SHANGHAI

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Samuel Merwin

The Story of China and the Opium Curse

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The men who buy in the opium at these monthly auctions and afterwards dispose of it at the Chinese ports are a curious crowd of Parsees, Mohammedans, Hindoos, and Asiatic Jews. Few British names appear in the opium trade to-day. British dignity prefers not to stoop beneath the taking in of profits; it leaves the details of a dirty business to dirty hands. This is as it has been from the first. The directors of the East India Company, years and years before that splendid corporation relinquished the actual government of India, forbade the sending of its specially-prepared opium direct to China, and advised a trading station on the coast whence the drug might find its way, “without the company being exposed to the disgrace of being engaged in an illicit commerce.”

So clean hands and dirty hands went into partnership. They are in partnership still, save that the most nearly Christian of governments has officially succeeded the company as party of the first part. And sixty-five tons of Indian opium go to China every week.

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