The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-15

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to the United States but to all other
nations OF the world wishing to do busi-
ness with the United States
UnscrupuIous Disposition.
The Senate should not only keep
fully In mind the aggressive measures
taken by Japan from 1894 to the pres
emit In order to note the strides that
she has made and what may be antici-
pated In the future, not only should
they note her methods of INSCRIPTIONS
disposition, but they also should not lose
sight OF other acts of hers which will
enable them to judge of their effect
upon a people that falls under her con-
troll. There need be cited only two
matters Americans know, from the
spirit with which we have administered
Porto Rico and the Philippines, what
our views are regarding the influence
OF a stronger nation for weaker one
more backward in matters of modern
economic and political development
Late revelations of the Japanese policies
in Corea begun with the murder of a
Corean queen and the force exercised
upon the Emperor and his Ministers at
the time of the annexation and ending
with the brutal torture and killing Of
the unarmed and unresisting revoiu-
tionists In the spring of 1919 showed
the difference between Japanese and
American ideals Do We wish to have
Japanese methods applied in Shantung7
And we should not forget that there are
many individual instances Of similar
methods having been applied in Man.
churia to the Chinese where the Japa-
nese have been in control.
Zone instance Of Japanese methods
raises the question again. For the last
ten years China has made a most heroic
effort to free her people from the curse
Of opium and it's compounds The Gov
eminent to a most remarkable degree
has succeeded in carrying out its policy,
such success being verified by British
officials as well as by the almost uni
versal testimony of foreigners residing
in China. Within the last two or three
years the Japanese have been forcing
the Chinese In Chile and Shantung back
to their former condition. Peoples are
growing In Manchuria- Opium is manu-
featured there in large quantities under
the direction of the Japanese, and the
same drugs (bought, it is asserted.
formerly largely In Edinburgh and other
British territory are imported by the
JaphLlCbc, 70 IIelT IOITuhl WOTQ
at the opium conference, contrary to the
spirit OF the Chinese customs laws, en-
tering China In very lauye quantities.
The Outport and Overseas supplement
OF the Chino Illustrated Weekly for
February 15, 1919. gives some three
hundred specific cases of purchases of
opium and morphine made by its own
agents from Japanese shope. Testi-
mony shows that such cases are almost
limitless and 1t is believed by the for
eigners resident in China that this traf-
hc has been deliberately encouraged by
the japanese Government: first, for the
purpose Of revenue. and, second. with
the ready willingness at any rate to
have the Chinese for the time being
weak physically and morally in order
that the Japanese may be strengthened
in this locality politically.
''In this connection I wish to print the
testimony taken by the committee IN
regard to the opium question, which
will ask to have inserted here without
reading.
THE matter referred to is as fol-
lows:
Shantung and Opium.
"Under the dominating influence Of
Japan in China the opium business that
had been stopped by England and China
Is being fully reestabllshed.
In Asia magazine of March, 1919,
Putnam Weale says that the Japanese
imported twenty tons of morphine a year
into China. The Shanghai North China
Daily Netos, the most conservative and
reliable British newspaper and the
mouthpiece of the British Legation,
quoted in the Literary Digest of April
HIv, Ina
by Chilese pedlers. each of whom
carries a passport certifying that he is
native OF Bormosa and would be en-
titled to Japan's protection. There are
japanese post offices everywhere in
China and they carry the drug through
out the country. and the Chinese au-
thorities are neither able to investigate
nor interfere. They are helpless under
Japanese domination. Japanese drug
stores throughout China carry large
stocks of morphine, and Japanese medi-
cine vendors look to morphine for their
large profits throughout Tairen. Me-
phine circulates through Manchuria and
the provinces adjoining. Through
Tsingtau morphine is distributed over
Shantung province, Anhui and Kiangsu
provinces From Formosa morphine is
carried with opium and other contra
band by motor driven fish boats to some
point on the mainland. from which It
is distributed throughout the Province
of Fukien and north of Kwangtuag.
Everywhere It is sold by Japanese I'M
der extraterritorial protection. While
the morphine traffic is large. there is
every reason to believe that the opium
traffic upon which Japan is embarking
with enthusiasm is likely to prove more
lucrative eighteen tons of morphine
Cn1 IL, hxrI To-,
""In the Calcutta opium sales Japan
has become one of the considerable pur-
chasers of Indian opium she purchs SIS
for Formosa, where the opium trade
shows steady growth and where opium
Is required for the manufacture OF NOR
phine. Sold by the Government of In
dia. this opium is exported under per-
mits applied for by the Japanese Gov
eminent for shipment to Kobea and Is
transshipped to Tsingtau. Large profits
are made in this trade, in which arc
interested some of the leading firms of
Japan. 1t must be emphasized that this
opium Is not imported into Japan, but
Is transshipped in Kobea Harbor, from
to Tsinanfu and smuggled to
Shantung into Shanghai and YangtsEe
Valley. Two thousand chests of opium
are struggled, valued at $4,000 per
chest, or 10000, 900. and the Japanese
authorities recently taxed $1,000 a chest.
or $l0,000.000, which does not appear
in the estimatea
."''The customs and post offices where
smuggling is done, are wholly under
Japanese control Moreover. Japanese
military domination would forbid in both
ports any interference with the traffic
in which japanese authorities are in.
terested. either official or unofficial"
"Under the ten year arrangement with