Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — 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 ’ast year passed a resolution that 'the system by which the Indian opium revenue is raised 1c morally in defeasible,” but when this year a delegation representing nearly all the great religious bodies in England asked the Government to suppress the traffic, which Is the curse ol Chl<a, the delegation met with an acknowledgment that all they had to say agail|st the traffic was true, but that there was no other way to raise the sl9-000,000 which the taxation of opium yiMde> annually in India.