The Opium Monopoly
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The Opium Monopoly is by Ellen N. La Motte, who is listed as the author of Backwash of War, Peking Dust, Civilization, and more. The text says the writers found these shops established under government auspices, the dealers obtaining their supplies of opium from the government, and then obtaining licenses from the government to retail it. The text says revenue was derived through the sale of opium, through excise taxes upon opium, and through license fees paid by the keepers of opium shops and divans.
The text says that in European countries and in America the governments make every effort to repress the sale of habit-forming drugs, while in the Far East a contrary attitude prevails. The text says that in 1907 China began her latest fight against the opium evil and enacted and enforced drastic laws prohibiting opium smoking and opium selling on Chinese soil, but was powerless to enforce these laws on foreign soil.
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- Ellen N. La Motte
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- 38
- Language
- English
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