The Cairo bulletin., 1904-09-04
MUCH COCAINE
IS SOLD HERE
Negroes Large Consumers Of the
Deadly Poison
TERRORS OF TIL HABIT
TOLD BY CAIRO DRuGGiST-uSER
is MOST PlTlABLE OF VAST
ARMY or HUMAN
WRECKS.


state board of health TO Cairo anc
other cities in the state 70 inquire in
to the sale Of cocaine by druggist
has directed che public attention tc
The use Of that and other perniciou
drugs.
unquestionably a large amount o
cocaine is sold in Cairo and surround
ing towns. The center Of consumption
in Cairo is said to be wild Ca
Chute and Fifth street, between
Commercial and Washington avenues
II is also generally in use in other por
tons of the city and 1t is said large
quantities Of the drug Is used in Fu
ture City.
Cocaine, a prominen. druggist de
clared yesterday, Il the cheapest form
of exhileration. Enough may be pun
chased for five cents to produce ;
state of exhileration. Hence its popG
larity among the poorer classes wht
cannot afford to buy whisky or any 0
the highar-pricel drugs. On he Other
hand, the sale Of cocaine is very pro
ftable and the druggist is subjected tt
4 strong temptation to cater TO sucl
custom. Some druggists in this city
it is said, have a large cocaine trade
while others will not sell it to habitue
unless upon the prescription of ply
stefan.
Druu is Powerful
Doctors agree that cocaine, with the
exception of hasheesh or Indian hemp
is the most powerful drug that can be
taken for the purpose of exhleration
Its action upon the heart is instan
taneous and direct. fhe result being
that state of intoxlcation is reached
in an incredibly short time. The re
action which follows is, OF course, Sc
we're, and in the course of time the
heart ceases to exercise it's functions
IN normal manner. and degeneration
Of the physical mental and moral sys
tenn soon follows. The cocaine fiend
Is by odds the most pitiable of all that
vast army of human wrecks who arr
in the thraldom of the drug habit. He
becomes a degenerate of the loves
class, capable OF any crime against
himself or his Maker.
Few Whites Use 1t.
So far as can be ascertained the
of slaves to cocaine among
he white race in this city is compare
lively small, but The number of ne
groes who use the drug Is alarm
ng in many senses. Cocaine comes in
ana the negroes have two
ways Of taking it-by dissolving 1t in
water or by snufflng 1t up the nose
Either method is sufficient to produce
he result
Its Savage Effect.
The negro has coarscr physical
lber than the white man, and in enc
rcsncct rcsists the ravaacs of the drug
longer. But hc is weaker in HIS moral
nature, and more subject to his pas
iions and cmotiona and is, therefore
more dangerous to he community. A
negro with half n pint of greenish
yellow corn whisky seething in hi,
stomach. upon which has been laid 6
charge of cocaine. is as fit TO rur
lmuck as any Malay crazed by
hasheosh. The police viii tell you SO
though. perhaps in different words
The wonder with them is that cocaine
doesn't breed a muck or two every
lay.
well known physician said yester
lay morning: My observation leads
me to believe that white people do not
resort to cocaine until they have had
, preparatory training in the use OF
Jthar drugs. They have been warned !
ii the awful effects OF cocaine an;
hun q until they lose their will power /
Dr. until the other drugs are no longer |
,blc 10 give them plcssurabln I'm
ions. Therefore. when q white per
on takes TO cocaine the case may BE- |
'cgarded as hopeless
Net the Only Evil.
Cocaine nc continued. represents |
,niy a fraction OF the drug habH /
Where one person uses cocaine five
ire addicted 10 morphine or opium or /
ome other form OF narcotic. think 4
he newspapers will do a service to hu.
nanity II they viii emphasize the 4
.wfulness OF the drug habit II Is
aid th1f only one person ont Of a
thousand ever breaks the chains OF
Morphine or opium when they are
irmly rivoied upon him am in.
lined to believe that the statement
s'not exaggerated Those who escape
rom the pit either have indomitable
80 power or very hirh religious
b tiact The former become addict
. TO the habit bY the necessity for
eiief from pain and when they
rake ~ TO their condifipn begin grim 4
'ruggic by the consciousness hat
iey thsv are doing ihai which their
lsEer demand A. ion- a. they
ave that feeling they io Mt de-r1ir
shoricns Human Life.
% is n sad th.ug-aud ] bate to s-~
suit most o. those Who c1rqner RE
ahti Do not live long anerEari
heir hearts have come permanently
eakened. and sooner Or laier thcy
10 of true heart failure. Yet men
ave been known 20 accept this condi-