THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1392, 19 March 1912, Page 6

THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

CONDEMNED BY THE W.C.T.TJ,

( By Teleiraoh—Prcs« Aeiioilatloii.l Dunedin, March 18. Tho W.C.T.U. convention has passed resolutions strongly urging that all smoking carriages be placed cither at the beginning or the ond of trains; also that a'congratulatory message be sent to tho Methodist coiifcreiico on the first occasion on which a. woman has taken a beat as a. member of the coiiferencc. Tho following motion regarding the opium habit was adopted: "That this meeting of loyal and loring members of tho great British nation desires to once more express its feelings of profound grief, shame, and humiliation that, notwithstanding China's strenuous offorts to free her people from the demoralising eft'ects of the opium drug, and the pathetic appeals from her people to help them by discontinuing the importation into her country, our country, for the sake of money, still continues to debase and ruin China by the cultivation, manufacture, and export of tho drug to China; and while nil other nations who lately met at The-Hague Conference have agreed not to import any more opium into China, wo have at this conference deliberately excepted ourselves from this agreement, and refused to release China from tho iniquitous treatv which compels her to admit it into her country. We would once rnoro implore tho rulers of the Mother Country to free China from this strange and iniquitous treaty."