The Opium Trade in China by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 44.

The Opium Trade in China

By Editor

The article on page 693, on the opium trade in China, together with two that will follow, will be found interesting and profitable reading. We do not print it to call attention to England's share in the dark transaction, for our own country has little in its dealings with weaker races—Negroes, Indians, and even Chinese—of which to boast. There are doubtless as many people in England who condemn that country's course in regard to the opium traffic as there are in this country, and perhaps more. When we compare any "Christian nation" with a heathen nation, we are compelled to admit that the difference is mainly in the kind of sins committed, and not in the quality or quantity.