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Title: The Opium Monopoly

Author: Ellen Newbold La Motte

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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