Hearsay testimony upon which charges of the Anti-Opium Society founded
explained.--Chinese a polite people and treat Missionaries courteously,
but despise Christianity, and will not tell Missionaries the truth about
Opium.--Respectable Chinese would become an object of scorn and disgrace
to their fellow-countrymen if they embraced Christianity.--Professing
Chinese Christians in most cases impostors.--Heathen Chinese as a rule
more trustworthy than so-called Christian converts.--Missionary clergymen
in China have not the confidence of the Chinese people, and draw their
information as to Opium smoking from polluted sources.--Difference between
Missionary clergymen in China and the clergymen of all denominations in
England as regards knowledge of the people they live amongst.--Missionaries
in China wholly responsible for the imposture prevailing in England as to
Opium smoking in China.--Although the Chinese are a spirit-drinking
people, they never drink to excess.--Drunkenness unknown amongst
Chinese.--Chinese-American treaty a sham as regards Opium.--Sir J. H.
Pease, M.P., duped by the "bogus" clause as to Opium.--His speech on the
Opium question in 1881.--Chinese smoke Opium wherever they go.--As much
Opium imported into China now as before the sham treaty.--Opium a luxury
which only the well-to-do can freely indulge in.--Explanation of the means
by which unfounded statements respecting Opium are propagated.--Apologue
by way of example.--Proof of the state of things explained by the apologue
furnished by the Rev. Storrs Turner and Dr. Ayres.--First fallacy, that
the poppy is not indigenous to China, but has been recently introduced
there, presumably by British agency, and the second fallacy, that Opium
smoking in China is now and always has been confined to a small
per-centage of the population, but which, owing to the importation into
the country of Indian Opium, is rapidly increasing, refuted and the truth
fully stated.--Testimony of Mr. W. Donald Spence and Mr. E. Colborne
Baber, and Sir Rutherford Alcock.