...sanction. To which China, in the person of her Emperor, replied, " It is true that I cannot effectually prevent the introduction of the flowing poison : gain-seeking...revenue from the vice and misery of my people." The story of the war must be read elsewhere * : here it is sufficient to say that the British arms were,...

...I will be heard." Emperor of China— "It is true I can not prevent the introduction of the glowing poison. Gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit...nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the misery and vice of my people." Gladstone's reply to the London brewers— "Gentlemen: You need not...

...wits at last forsake him, he cleans out spittoons in the saloon to get his drinks." Emperor of China: wishes; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the misery and vice of my people." Queen of Madagascar: "I cannot consent, as your queen, to take revenue...

...a suggestion even to Christian rulers: "It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the glowing poison. Gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit...nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the misery and vice of my people." China Demands Freedom. On the ist of March, 1911, the Chinese people...

...Tao-kwang had said to Sir Henry Pottinger, when the latter proposed the legalization of the traffic : " It is true, I cannot prevent the introduction of the...a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." His successor was obliged to do that which he so sturdily had refused, but the vermilion pencil never...

...before. The Emperor Taou-Kwang steadfastly refused to legalize it. "Nothing will induce me," he said, "to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." And when Captain Hope, of HMS Thalia, stopped two or three opium ships above Shanghai, he was recalled...

...import of opium, said at this time in a public manifesto: "I cannot prevent the introduction of the poison : gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit...defeat my wishes; but nothing will induce me to derive revenue from the vice and misery of my people." It was and remains a noble reply. The hypocrisy of...

...of the Chinese government was expressed by the Emperor's manifesto in 1847. " I cannot," he said, " prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking...derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people " (Parliamentary Report, China, 1847, p. 292). The capitalist traders, shipowners and bankers interested...

...manifesto in 1847. "I cannot," he said, "prevent the introduction of the flaming poison; keenseeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat...derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people" (Parliamentary Report, China, 1847, p. 297). The capitalist traders, shipowners and bankers interested...

...Wisely the latter replied, in words that ought to have made the Englishman's cheeks burn with shame, "Nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." In 1839, Emperor Tao Kwang, finding with astonishment that the contraband trade had reached 35,000...