The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-09-03
JAPAN SENDING
OPIUM TO CHINA
Trying to Enslaye People to
the. Drug Habit for the
Profits
PROTECTION GIVEN
VENDORS BY JAPAN
Dr. Macklin Says 90 Tons of the Drug
Are Sold Yearly in China Drug
Also Sold Through Mails = Chinese
Forbidden to Inspect Goods.


WASHINGTON, Sept 1.-The story
of how Japan is trying to re-enslave
the Chinese people with opium, after
the Chinese, at the behest of England. |
had heroicaly rid themselves of this
awful seourge, was laid before the sen
ate committee on foreign relations yes
| terday, in the form of a brief supplied
| by Dr. W. f. Macklin, for thirty years
resident of China and long profes-
sor of medicine in Marking college.
Notwithstanding that in their final des-
4 bit the Chinese at last bought $l4,000,-
| 600 of the drug and burned it, the
traffic has now been re-established,
through the greed of Japan, if not also
| as a deliberate measure to inflict upon
the Chinese people a serfdom worse
/ than any other to which japanese par
amountcy might lead. Dr. Macklin
quotes the Chinese press extensively in
proving his case. citing several high au-
thorities to show that opium is now
flowing into China through japanese
channels at the rate of twenty tons a
year Japan has postofiices everywhere
in China and the drug is carried in the
mails, nor are the Chinese permitted to
inspect the parcels to keep the drug
, out, according to Dr. Macklin and vari-
Gus other authorities.
| In South China morphine is sold by
5 Chinese peddlers, each of whom carries
: a passport certifying that he is a native
t of Formosa and therefore entitled to
japanese protection. japanese drug
stores throughout China carry large
stores of morphine. japanese medicine
vendors look to morphine for their
largest profit. Through Tairon NOR
phine circulates throughout Manchuria
and the province adjoining
Through Tsingtao morphine is dis
tributed over Shantung, Anlhui, and
Kianguo provinces. From Formossa
morphine is carried with opium and 9TH
er contraband by motor driven fishing
boats to some point on the mainland
from whence it is distributed through
out the province of Fukien and the
\ north Kwangtwong. Everywhere it is
a sold by Japanese under extraterritori
q al protection.
4 While the morphine traffic is large
h there is every reason to believe, it i,
3 stated, that the opium traffic upor
which Japan is embarking with enthu
4 siasm, is likely to prove more lucra
tive. In the Calcutta opium sale Japar
has become one of the considerable pur
chasers of Indian opium. She purchase!
for Formosa. where the opium trad,
shows steady growth, and where OPT
um is required for the manufacture OF
C1I1 Il.
India, this opium is exported under per
mits applied for by the japanese gov
eminent, shipped to Kobe, and from
Kobe is transshipped to Tsingtao. Larg
profits are made in this trade in whicl
are interested some of the leading firm
!, of Japan. 1t is emphasized that thi
;, opium is not imported into Japan. It i
= transhipped into Kobe harbor, fror
:, which point il is assigned by the Japa
u nese controlled railroad through Tsin
n anfu. it is smuggled through Shantun
r. into Shanghai, and the Yangtse valley
IS Two thousand chests are smuggled. sell
ing at $500 each, or $40,000,0OO. TIL
- Japanese authorities levy a tax upo
this which does not appear in the est
mates, equivalent to $4,000 chest.
total for 1000 chests of $10.O00.00C
are wholly under japanese control
Moreover, Japanese military domino
ton would forbid in both ports any ir
reference with the traffic in which tn
japanese are interested. either officiall
or unofficially.
Under the ten year agreement wit
England in 1907, the Chinese cleared a
their provinces of native opium in sey
| on nd
trade was supposedly stopped, but tao
lilly smuggling was still allowed, an
now under japanese domination, Chin
must submit to the full re-establisl
ment of this vile traffic
"Shall America indorse Hunnish act
toward a sister, friendly, allied repui
&c by signing the treaty in its presel
form9'' asks DR.. Maeklin