YUAN SHIH-KAI AND OPIUM
Yuan Shih-Kai, Provisional President of the Republic of China, declares : — "Most important to the present generation of my people is the complete extermination of opium and the opium habit. China, has been dying from this curse for more than half a century — fifty-nine years, to be exact. Her people, overcome by this vile drug, have been half asleep, and have not known that they and their country were dying. Years ago the nation appealed for outside aid in its suppression, and the •woi-ld knows what aid was rendered. The drug was forced upon us more than before. For nearly sixty years it haa stood as a great crime of humanity. But we will stop it and free the land of the devouring scourge. Our Naiional Assembly has already passed many laws regarding it, and these laws will be enforced. We are establishing an army, and that army will fight opium and opium-smugglers on all the frontiers of land and sea., opium dealers and subdealers in all of the cities and towns, and opium user* everywhere."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 59, 6 September 1913, Page 10
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