Lecture Iii.

Third and fifth fallacies upon which the members of the Anti-Opium Society and its supporters are misled.--Opium eating and Opium smoking contrasted with spirit drinking.--Valuable curative properties of Opium.--Spirit drinking produces organic and incurable diseases, is a fruitful cause of insanity, and leads to ruin and destruction.--The like effects admittedly not due to Opium.--Opium eating and Opium smoking totally distinct.-- Whatever the effects of Opium eating, Opium smoking perfectly innocuous.-- Anti-Opium advocates cunningly try to mix the two together.--Disingenuous conduct in this respect of the Rev. Storrs Turner--Mr. Turner so great an enthusiast as not to be able to see the difference.--Testimony of Dr. Eatwell as to the use of Opium.--Difference between Opium eating and Opium smoking explained in the case of tobacco smoking.--Tobacco taken internally a deadly poison, harmless when smoked.--Medical testimony as to the poisonous quality of tobacco and its alkaloid, nicotine.--Opium a valuable medicine, without any known substitute.--Anti-Tobacco Smoking Society, once formed the same as the Anti-Opium Society, put down by the common sense of the community, the like fate awaits the Anti-Opium Society.--Testimony of Dr. Sir George Birdwood, Surgeon-General Moore, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Dr. Ayres, and W. Brend, M.R.C.S., as to Opium.--Small quantity of Indian Opium imported into China.--Enormous amount of spirits consumed in the United Kingdom.--Anti-Opium Society blind to the latter, energetic as to the former a purely sentimental grievance.--Fallacy of Anti-Opium Society that supply creates demand refuted and exposed.-- Remaining fallacies refuted.--Effects of suppression of Indo-China Opium trade.--Missionaries detested in China.--Indian Opium welcomed.--Saying of Prince Kung.--Treaty of Tientsin explained and defended.--Erroneous notions of the Protestant Missionaries as to that treaty.--Abused by Missionaries, yet the treaty the Missionaries only charter.--Testimony of H. N. Lay and Lawrence Olyphant.--Spurious copy of De Quincey's "Confessions of an Opium Eater," published by Anti-Opium people.-- Testimony of Don Sinibaldo de Mas, formerly Spanish Minister in China, a powerful defence of the Indo-China Opium trade.--Policy of the Indian Government as regards Opium wisest and best.--Alleged proposal of Lord Lawrence to alter that policy.--Fallacy involved in such proposal exposed.--Abrogation of Indo-Opium trade injurious if not destructive to the spread of the Gospel in China.--False charge of smuggling by British merchants in China exposed and refuted.--Un-English policy of the Anti-Opium Society exposed.--Recapitulation.--Benevolence of the British public.--Necessity for seeing that it is not diverted into worthless channels.--Anti-Opium Society, mischievous, presenting a melancholy record of energies wasted, talents misapplied, wealth uselessly squandered, charity perverted, and philanthropy run mad.--Society should be dissolved and its funds transferred to Missionaries.--Missionaries should not mix up Christianity and Opium.--Missionaries defended and encouraged.

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APPENDIX.

Official Letter of Francis Bulkeley Johnson, Esq., of the firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co., of Hong Kong and China, Chairman of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, to Charles Magniac, Esq., M.P., the President of the London Chamber of Commerce, respecting the charge of smuggling against the British merchants in China, and giving particulars of the Indo-China Opium trade.

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THE TRUTH ABOUT OPIUM.