--Failure of
Missionaries not due to Opium.--Real reasons of their
ill-success.--Exterritorialization of Converts very
objectionable to Chinese.--Roman Catholic Missionaries
most detested, but more successful.--Reasons of
this.--Our Missionaries, how far successful.--Their duty
and ours pp. 97-114

Remedies suggested.--Firstly, Abolition of Monopoly.--
Objections to this.--Secondly, Prohibition of
Poppy-culture in all India.--Difficulties with Native
States.--Legitimate requirements of India.--Financial
objections.--Curtailment of Expenditure difficult.--
Increase of Taxation impossible.--Thirdly, England to ask
for an equivalent from China for giving up the Opium
Revenue.--No compensation to India.--Fourthly, Li Hung
Chang's proposal pp. 114-129

Feasible remedies.--Either, England and China to agree to
stop the cultivation of the Poppy gradually in _both_
countries.--A test of Chinese sincerity.--Effect, if
carried out.--_Or_, to free China from all obligations in
regard to Opium.--This would cut away the ground from
under the Agitators.--India would not lose all her
Revenue.--The Agitation the outcome of mistaken
Philanthropy.--Their method of propagandism most
objectionable.--Conclusion pp. 129-139

A VINDICATION OF ENGLAND'S POLICY WITH REGARD TO THE OPIUM TRADE.

Again there has been a debate in Parliament on the opium traffic:[1] again
has the same weary series of platitudes and misrepresentations been
repeated, and no one has taken the trouble to defend the policy of England
as it should and can be defended. But it is high time that the falsities
and the fallacies of the statements of the Anti-opium Society should be
exposed, and that everyone to the best of his ability should enlighten the
people of England on a subject which so nearly concerns the honour of our
country. Isolated voices have indeed been raised to protest against the
views disseminated by the Society for the Abolition of the Opium Trade;
but these efforts have been too few and far between to reach the mass of
the nation. At present the agitators have it all their own way. The
majority of people, having heard nothing but what the agitators have told
them, denounce the iniquitous t