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- Dean Seeman
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- 2020-03-27
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- Labourers. The Chinese are chagred with the habit of Opium smoking and this habit is said to be demoralizing. If this charge is true who is to blame the Chinese who use the [not readable] drug or the English who introduced it and forced its trade upon us in defiance of the repeated protests of the Chinese Government [not readable] aware that the revenue of trade is benefited by opium to their country of upwards of Eight million annually. On the other hand the amount the Chinese Government derives from this [not readable] does not exceed One Million sterling. It is known that without this income the British Government in India would have some difficulty in carrying on their affairs of state. I think it [not readable] hardly be disputed that if this difference [not readable] a very substandard grievance – a grievance which sinks the [not readable] complaints of British Columbians into utter insignificance. You will not I feel sure deem it irrelevant [not readable] opinion of an eminent writer well acquainted with our habits and customs. In writing of my country [not readable] They sell on us their steady and persistent fashion keeping their families from want and enriching the country by their labour.
They have all the [not readable] necessary not merely to success in life [not readable] to the foundation of society. Their sobriety, morality and good [not readable] with one another are not
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