I’AGE 2. T HE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, y APRIL 0040004040000000500040+0% | The Crusade History of the Opium Smoking China and Its De- plorable Results Bishop Brent's Work. -i- .ie Evil of In India and Qe0e0e0e0eOe0s020e0e0eD 0000 QeQeQeQe ee eQeele tHE recent passage by a bill prohibiting portation of opium into the United States, except for me- and the antl-oplum during February In Shanghal, China, form two notable events in the worldwide crusade against the oplum evil, The history of the op astonishing one, under this head by the internat connection with Shanghai This strong hand in carry antl-oplum crusade. Rev. Wilbur the secretar: Thwing, has Crafts in the the 1 Oplur far ba befor habit « their easy Britis! intro it had and gi had g¢ Chl den a de the congress the im- dicinal purposes, conference held 1m evil Is an striking facts have been gathered nal reform bureau In the nce at bureau has had a ing forward the At its head 1s the Ph. Some confere Crafts, eg TT A—— s EE i i. #4 . wilh y der ! the ex] the Qe ter Hee : mis | ibjects,” However he » ¢ to resist gir er 1 ’ nt on reasingly it } f cause of a second which Frm a was speed *« not until th pn war in 1861 the smug unti oplu ' 58 and | ) } ted. ("hi fly oo i Hy rlose nt! rd op helpless \ to all » importation of opl several and to fix a certain tax or leense upon It, which was not to be or changed, nor wag oplut excluded except by con gent « » British government This for g of oplum upon China was not by any means approved by ell the PBritish people, and In 1874 the British Antloplum society wns estaly lished under the presidency of the Earl of Bhaftesbury. It has persistently Ia bored since then to constrain the gos ernment to China from thi treaty compuision to tolerate an evil traffic which it had always prohibited when free to do so. The first official encouragement se- cured by the British antloplum agita- tion was a resolution in 1501 by parlia- ment that “the Indo-Chinese opinm traffic is morally indefensible.” The next encouragement came from the action of progressive New Zealand fn prohibiting the Importation of opium In 1001. Australia followed with a stmflar law In 1004 and shortly ut It =» that fod reluctantly conse: release um at Aaainst Opium The Movement Which Led Antl-opium Conference In China and the Chinese Edicts Against Traffic. i~- «i= -i- to the the ® e000 000000000000 00000 South Africa, and In 1908 into the anti-oplum But in the meantime a strong. nlse from a g Amerl- in the Philippines, which influentinl, as afterward Canada was swept wave er mj can vi cme rent tory was still more subse. quent events show, upon the British nment n 1000, ben an oplum had upon In monopoly nds, ) MI were ass ited Bist op CC. H. Brent and Dr. Jose Al bert, a promipent Philippine physi el ! ! gion : pan REY. DR. WILBUR F. UBRAFTS became a national passion, In which great multitudes participated with the Jubllation of a triumphal procession The climax of the anti-oplum wave | was the act of President Roosevelt, at | the suggestion of Bishop Brent, in eall i ing the Shanghnal conference of twelve | nations In order to help China and the | Philippines to complete success In thelr oplum proposals and at the same time to deal such blows as might be possible to the oplum traffic in these nations themselves and in the world at Inrge. AT THE WHITE HOUSE. | A Steward at $1,800 a Year Will Mrs. Taft's Marketing. Mrs, Taft has the reputation of be Ing an excellent housekeeper. 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