Word: formosae
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...there was no prospect of establishing any understanding that would not legalize the drug trade for some years to come. European nations, she discovered, found the business too profitable to be abandoned. They pleaded the impossibility of preventing the trade, but, when faced with Japan's successful prohibition in Formosa, were forced to admit two significant facts: the traffic yields large tariff revenues in the colonies; and it stimulates the necessary immigration of cheap Chinese labor...
...closer together. Geographically speaking, we are not further apart than New York and Chicago. It is only 700 miles from your Aleutian Islands to the first of our Japanese islands. On a clear day you can look across from your Philippines and see the snow-capped peaks of our Formosa. In the second place our trade relations are becoming greater and greater. Japan will be the force which will awaken the Orient to a new era of economic prosperity. China is out of the picture for at least 50 years to come. It will be we who will touch...
...settlements and concessions in the different treaty ports, should be returned to China; all extraterritorial courts abolished; all indemnities which China is still forced to pay waived; the customs and the postal administrations handed over to Chinese management; foreign troops and gunboats withdrawn at once; Hongkong, Kowloon, Liaotung and Formosa returned to China; Burma, Annam and Korea allowed to become independent...
Albert Johnson, U. S. Representative from Washington: "A Japanese suicide in Tsieihu, Formosa, left a note saying: 'I am dying as a protest against exclusion, and when I am dead my soul will fly to America to punish Representative Albert Johnson and his kind...
Interviewed by a Christian Science Monitor reporter, said I: 'When I sell a mulberry seedling to a merchant in Formosa for silkworm culture, or my spineless edible cacti to the East Indian Government...