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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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trade, and that is the right of a people to govern
itself.
Another tea episode—more than a hundred years
old—stands out in English history, in its details dis-
creditable to both parties, yet illustrating the fact
that liberty is dearer than tea. It is not in the least
probable that the effort by England to force Assam
tea on Tibet will be followed by such consequences
as those belonging to the more famous incident in
Boston Harbour; for the Tibetans are weak. The
parallel is of value only on the sentimental side,
removed by many degrees from the field of practical
empire-building. The Chinese doubtless make a
profit out of the tea trade with Tibet, and doubtless
the English or native tea growers in India would
like to have this profit. As the matter stands,
however, the Tibetans prefer Chinese tea to any
other, and even pay more for it, in Ladak, where
Indian tea is easily obtainable, than the price of this
latter. And even if they did not like it better, the
vast danger of receiving any other is so great that
they must be willing to sacrifice a *nuance* of taste
for the very substance of political liberty. The
Yankees, be it remembered, did not have even brick
tea as a substitute. It is of no consequence—all
this commiseration of the poor Tibetans who are
forced to take Chinese tea—nay, it is of conse-
quence, for it is hypocritical and mean. They do
not want to trade with India. They are afraid to
trade with India. They will be forced to trade with
India.
Of this treaty of 1890, as of a later convention in
1894, we may say, in charging the British policy as
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