, 1902-02-20
COCAINE
LESS IN DEMAND HERE THAN IN
ANY CITY PROMINENT DRUG
GIST KNOWS OF.
Was = Large Demand for That and
Others Of Its Kind to Certain Class
Of Graders on Union Pacific, but
They are Gone and With Them
Such Heavy Demand for Drug.

49, thN w.
lowing card from DR.. Swigart to cor
rect an error made by the papers
chemist who insisted that cocaine was
a preparation of opium. The actor
says:
Was it you or I that was under the
influence Of something at the coun-
Gil meeting Tuesday night? Perhaps
you did not print what l said. l am
sure you did not print what l desired
to say.
Il specifically said l knew nothing
about the legal phraseology Of such
an ordinance and wished to avoid en-
tirely the point raised by DR.. Hayford.
My sole object was to show to the
honorable mayor and his associates
that was In hearty accord with their
efforts to prohibit the sale or gift OF
cocaine to those who were running
themselves physically, mentally and
morally by it's use. I desire to show
that a victim OF the cocaine habit was
utterly unable to resist the taking If
it II he could get it and therefore the
ordinance must be directed against
those who place 1t where the victim
can get it.
You made Inc say. cocaine is one
Of the worst of the various forms OF
opium 1t certainly is bad form but
cocaine is not opium In any form. Co
caine is derived from the leaves of the
coca plant, while opium, with all its
alkaloids. is derived from the unripe
capsule Of the opium poppy"
A Laramie druggist. who has been
In the business for t~wenty-six years
says that in all his experience he
does not know Of a town where there
Is as little of the drugs sought to b.
legislated against by the council sold
and used as Laramie. Two or three
years ago, he said, when there were
large numbers Of southern negroes
and others employed on the new work
on the Union Pacific near this city
there were large sales Of cocaine and
other preparations Of that sort, in theil
various forms. some buying even the
cocaine In its true form, others the
catarrhal powders Intentional specific,
ally at the meeting of the council Tues
day night.
Cocaine is known to druggists as a
| 1Nro1 onoosfhofic onI u-hilo u 10 moi
a preparation of opium. as the report
er Inadvertently had it yesterday at
ternoon, its use is very injurious wher
practiced injudiciously.
The druggist quoted sells it and rec
ommends 1t in certain cases, but he
says he tries to avoid it's falling into
the hands Of parties who are abused
by its use. and has more than once re
fused to sell the catarrhal powder
about which so much has been said ir
the last few days.
Aside from the fact that the use o.
the drug is injurious to the man who
abuses its USE" said he, he is a class
OF customer no reputable druggis,
likes to have enter his store. He il
lost to all sense of moral restraint, his
sole and whole aim being to get the
drug that he may get the benent of it,
effect for the time upon his system
We do not car as q rule to have that
kind Of men In the store, and do all
We can to prevent them coming and
refuse to sell them the stuff"
It was said this morning that could
the expression Of the people Of the
city be taken on the subject, ninety.
i've out Of every hundred would be
against the sale Of the drugs in any OF
their forms to the men and boys who
abuse their properties and take the
stun, not for the beneft It would be to
them ~ . remedy rightfully applied.
but for the effect It has upon them for
the time being. All would favor some
law that would prevent the sale Of CO
caine to irresponsible parties.