Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — Ashamed of Her Opium Trade. [ARTICLE]

Ashamed of Her Opium Trade.

England is ashamed of her opium trade in India, but don’t know how to give it up. The House of Commons last year passed a resolution that “the system by which the Indian opium revenue is raised ie morally indefensible,” but when this year a delegation representing nearly ail the great religious bodies in England asked the Government to suppress the traffic, whioh Is the curse ol China, the delegation met with an acknowledgment that all they had to say against the . traffic was true, but that there was no other way to raise- the $19,000,000 which the taxation of opium yields annually in India. .