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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Opium Monopoly, by Ellen Newbold La Motte
Title: The Opium Monopoly
Author: Ellen Newbold La Motte
Release Date: August 21, 2010 [eBook #33479]
Language: English
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THE OPIUM MONOPOLY
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS,
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO
Wrapper of packet of opium, as sold in licensed opium shops of Singapore. Each packet contains enough opium for about six smokes.
THE OPIUM MONOPOLY
By
ELLEN N. LA MOTTE
AUTHOR OF "BACKWASH OF WAR," "PEKING DUST,"
"CIVILIZATION," ETC.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1920
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1920.
"If this was our battle, if these were our ends,
Which were our enemies, which were our friends?"
Witter Bynner, in The Nation.
CONTENTS
| Chapter | Page | |
| Introduction | ix | |
| I. | Great Britain's Opium Monopoly | 1 |
| II. | The Indian Opium Monopoly | 6 |
| III. | Japan as an Opium Distributor | 11 |
| IV. | Singapore | 18 |
| V. | The Straits Settlements Opium Commission | 23 |
| VI. | Opium in Siam | 26 |
| VII. | Hongkong | 30 |
| VIII. | Sarawak | 35 |
| IX. | Shanghai | 37 |
| X. | India | 44 |
| XI. | Turkey and Persia | 54 |
| XII. | Mauretius | 56 |
| XIII. | British North Borneo | 58 |
| XIV. | British Guiana | 62 |
| XV. | History of the Opium Trade in China | 65 |
| XVI. | Conclusion | 73 |
INTRODUCTION
We first became interested in the opium traffic during a visit to the Far East in 1916. Like most Americans, we had vaguely heard of this trade, and had still vaguer recollections of a war between Great Britain and China, which took place about seventy-five years ago, known as the