The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-07-21

be included showing that 4 ira .
mendous proportion Of the wage
earners and field hands of the
south cannot be secured for la
Dor these days because of the
fact that they are absolute slaves
to cocaine. AS slaves of this
drug and other diseases general
ly prevalent among negroes, it is
expected that the report will
show the conditions which exist
today must be far worse with the
spreading of the practice tomor-
row and that in less than five
years the negroes will, compare
lively speaking, be a lost quanti-
ty as laborers in the development
of the south. s.
Another feature expected. in
the report is that the system by
which these dope slaves, have.
been made fiends is through
agents which have been noticed
mingling among the coloreds peo-,
pie. These agents when aues-,
toned have always been quick
to state that they repreaented Inv
surance companies, especially the
funeral" insurance companies
which is so popular among the
negroes. Others have even car
ried books and avoiding suspic-
ion In this way have mingled
with the blacks, telling them
stories Of their oppression at the
hands of the southerners and
promising them that the day was
at hand when the negroes would
again come into their own and
would be represented in every
form of government, city, state
and national.
While proving themselves their
"friendso0 in this way, they have
sold them cocaine administered
in many ways and under many
names. When the negroes were
too poor to buy this white mate
rial, they were given enough to
soon make them fends in the
worst possible way and once
fiends they were quick to secure
money enough in some way to
purchase more of the cocaine
even if the money had to be Sc
cured at the greatest risk.
COCAINE PLAYS PART.
This Forthcoming report it is
expected will also show some of
the tremendous percentages made
by these agents. Purchasing
cocaine in large quantities, other
materials were used both for
adulteration as we'll as for re-
ducing the strength of the drug.
Apparently, it was not necessary
for these agents to remain more
than a week or two in a territory.
Upon their departure, some white
man, or in some cases, negroes,
were left as their representa-
tives. These representatives
were supplied with cocaine at a
| fearful profit to the agent, the
lstuff being shipped under all kinds
of names and other methods OF
deception.
While the cities of the south
have for a long time known that
the cocaine practice was spread
ing rapidly, it is believed that
the country districts have beer
more or less free from the
scourge. : 1t was only a year OF
two ago that this refusal on the
part Of the negroes to work sat
any price was first known. Tha
the habit has spread beyond es
, innate will probably indicate thu
inability of the special commits
sioners to even arrive at an ap
proximate either of the victims
or of the amount of cocane which
Z lis being shipped into the soutl
from big cities in the north ant
taccording to report, from Kan
sas City as one of the most i'm
portant of the big agencies o
e the country.
Il While the railroad men, tn
9 mill men, the farmers and tn
e citizens generally of Georgia an
i. 1.-THE south are trying to arrive a
s some solution-to the presen
il scarcity of labor in the south,
i is believed that the coming re