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Drugging a Nation
Samuel Merwin
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Drugging a Nation
Samuel Merwin
Book Excerpt: ... It is not pleasant to answer the moral indignation of the British empire with the cynical statement that the India government cannot exist without that opium revenue. Why, oh, why, did not the great Warren Hastings develop the cotton rather than the opium industry! But the interesting fact is that he did not. He chose opium, and opium it is. The India Government Opium Monopoly is an import factor in this extraordinary story of a debauchery of a third of the human race by the most nearly Christian among Christian nations. We must understand what it is and how it works before we can understand the narrative of that greed, with its attendant smuggling, bribery and bloodshed which has brought the Chinese empire to its knees. In speaking of it as a "monopoly," I am not employing a cant word for effect. I am not making a case. That is what it is officially styled in a certain blue book on my table which bears the title, "Statement Exhibiting the Moral and Material Progress of India during the year 1905-6," a...
Media | Kirjat Paperback Book (Kirja pehmeillä kansilla ja liimatulla selällä) |
Julkaisupäivämäärä | perjantai 29. tammikuuta 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9798555801586 |
Tuottaja | INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED |
Sivujen määrä | 108 |
Mitta | 152 × 229 × 6 mm · 154 g |
Kieli | English |
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