From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations . ed by the colored billows. Far andnear, along roads and streams, round statelytemples and prosperous farm-houses, rippledand surged these millions of corollas. In every book on China appeared such head-ings as, Thousands of opium victims victims must die. Opium cures andasylums. Missionaries opium refuges. Im-possible for Chinese to resist the subtle fascina-tion of the drug. Chinas darkest cloud. But when the writer arrived at Chentu, Jan-uary 1st
From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations . ed by the colored billows. Far andnear, along roads and streams, round statelytemples and prosperous farm-houses, rippledand surged these millions of corollas. In every book on China appeared such head-ings as, Thousands of opium victims victims must die. Opium cures andasylums. Missionaries opium refuges. Im-possible for Chinese to resist the subtle fascina-tion of the drug. Chinas darkest cloud. But when the writer arrived at Chentu, Jan-uary 1st, 1909, the imperial edict had goneforth that the cultivation of opium must cease,and cease it did. Not everywhere at once, butsoon nevertheless. The month before, everyopium shop in the city had been closed by theofficials. During my entire stay in westernChina, I never once saw a field of the that province was slower than any otherprovince as regards making rigid enforcementof the edict, yet the reports from all sources in1910 prove that the opium culture is a thing ofthe past. This shows what power the officials. A COUNTRY HOME. Sprague. pholo. 121 have when they choose to exert it in a countrywhere the citizens are not allowed to own fire-arms. Their method is—first to educate thepeople by means of printed proclamations asto the desirability of any reform, and then toremove temptation from their path. In the caseof the opium, if any farmer tries to raise a fieldof the poppy, soldiers are sent to uproot thecrop. But to say that the importation and use of thedrug has entirely ceased would be a the early months of 1910, it was no unusualsight on the principal highway in westernChina to see strings of more than one hundredcoolies carrying opium imported from BritishIndia up the country. Nevertheless, conditionshave so changed that foreign residents of thatprovince have told me that they were afraidto describe conditions as they existed three yearsbe
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