E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 33479-h.htm or 33479-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33479/pg33479-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33479/33479-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/opiummonopoly00lamouoft THE OPIUM MONOPOLY * * * * * THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO * * * * * [Illustration: Wrapper of packet of opium, as sold in licensed opium shops of Singapore. Each packet contains enough opium for about six smokes.] THE OPIUM MONOPOLY by ELLEN N. LA MOTTE Author of "Backwash of War," "Peking Dust," "Civilization," Etc. New York The Macmillan Company 1920 All rights reserved Copyright, 1920 By The Macmillan Company Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1920. "If this was our battle, if these were our ends, Which were our enemies, which were our friends?" _Witter Bynner_, in The Nation. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION ix I. GREAT BRITAIN'S OPIUM MONOPOLY 1 II. THE INDIAN OPIUM MONOPOLY 6 III. JAPAN AS AN OPIUM DISTRIBUTOR 11 IV. SINGAPORE 18 V. THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS OPIUM COMMISSION 23 VI. OPIUM IN SIAM 26 VII. HONGKONG 30 VIII. SARAWAK 35 IX. SHANGHAI 37 X. INDIA 44 XI. TURKEY AND PERSIA 54 XII. MAURETIUS 56 XIII. BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 58 XIV. BRITISH GUIANA 62 XV. HISTORY OF THE OPIUM TRADE IN CHINA 65 XVI. CONCLUSION 73 INTRODUCTION