Summary
IT'S very easy to condemn people when they are not here to reply. The critics are probably descended from sheep stealers.
Standards and practices have changed so much in 200 years - it was still legal to trade in slaves. Also the percentage of opium sold was only a small fraction of the total goods that Jardine Matheson traded in. It was merchants such as these that made the UK important in the 19th century.See the full content of this document
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Praise for the Merchants
These merchants were knighted for the good that they did. At least they did not steal when they were MPs, like the present trend.
China leads the world as a manufacturing country. This upsurge ...See the full content of this document
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