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Sensible China

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 9, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 2.

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Sensible China.

THE Chinese are generally supposed to be so conservative and attached to existing customs that a reform is out of the question with them. The recent famine has caused an examination into the resources of the country, and having decided that the use of opium is an unnecessary waste, and detrimental to the health and prosperity of the people, the Empire has prohibited the cultivation of the poppy. Now, if the United States would take a lesson in wisdom from this heathen nation, and prohibit the cultivation of tobacco and the distillation of whiskey, the great questions of finance and hard times would regulate themselves without any quarrels of Congress or “sand lot” vagaries concerning “capital and labor.”