The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-06
MOTHERS PRAY
THAT BILL WILL
BECOME A LAW
Those Whose Children Are
Slaves TO Habit Thankful
Fight Has Been Started.
BISHOP O'CONNOR ASKS
ALL PASTORS TO ASSIST
Many Speak in Praise of Step
Taken by THE EVEN
. ING STAR.


Both the clergy and the clubwoman
of New Jersey have Joined in hearty
accord with Sheriff Frank II. sommer
and the city officials of Newark in
uppor of THE EVENING STARS
Hnti-cocaine bill.
The Right Rev. Bishop John j.
O'Connor, of the Roman Catholic do
cese of Newark. and the Right Rev.
Edwin S. Lines, bishop of the Epis-
copal diocese of Newark, heartily
commended today the crusade now
being waged by THE EVENING STAR
against the pernicious drug habit.
THE EVENING STARS anti-co-
caine bill will be presented to the
Legislature early next week by AS
semblyman II. Stacy Smith, of south
Orange.
Already assurances nave been given
by members of both houses that the
bill will receive their hearty support.
Letters are being received daily at
the offices of THE EVENING STAR
from heart broken mothers whose sons
and daughters have become victims Of
the cocaine, opium and morphine
habits. No sadder commentary OH the
appalling conditions that exist among
victims of the drug habit can be found
than these letters from the mothers,
who pray that THE EVENING STAR
bill may become a law.
When sheriff Charles M.
Mo Eo1 SO M n oopxF of THE ENENTNC
STARS bill, he said:
excellent! We are really going to
have a sure-enough fight against the
dreadful drugs which are being used
by unfortunate young men and women
in our midst. 1t is time that our
great State should enact laws to pro-
hibit the illegal use of drugs.
II want to compliment THE EVEN
ING STAR for being the first in the
field, and hope that with it acting as
the pace-maker the bill will win out."
The Rev. T. S. Lumbar, pastor of
the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, said:
II am heartily in favor of the imhe-
diate passage of THE EVENING
STARS anti-cocaine bill. Its need is
urgent, and I believe that when the
measur is on the statute books a long
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the evil will have been accomplished.
] would like to see it pass both houses
unanimously.
when the bill is a law it must be
enforced. If enforced, it will result in
great good, | believe; in fact, l would
be in favor of a%bolishing the sale of
cocaine entirely If a substitute could
be found to take its place in legitimate
medical practise.
can ounce of ~precaution is worth a
pound of cure, the old adage says.
The enactment Of THE EVENING
STARS bill into law will make it next
to impossible for anyone to acquire the
drug habit, and in time the evil will
be almost entirely eradicated."
The Rev.. DIR. Louis Shreve Osborne,
of Trinity Episcopal Church, and presi-
dent of the Visiting Nurses Associa-
ton, stamps the bill with his approval.
The bill has my hearty indorse-
ment.' he said. 81 highly approve of
It's object, and will be glad to see it
so through. We are in sore need Of
just such a law"
Arthur w. MacDougall, superintend-
emit of Bureau of Associated Charities,
heartily indorses the cocaine crusade.
THE EVENING STARS bill is a
fine thing" he said today. Everyone
is aware that just such a bill has be-
come an absolute necessity. l nave
heard of many cocaine cases, especially
among boys. Sheriff Sommer has lone
much good work for the 'child-thea+re'
bill, and If he is sponsor for this meas
ure IL must needs be we'll worth while.
IT am heartily in favor of any we'll
considered action which is directed
toward the curtailment and prohibition
OF h sale of harmful drugs, and 1
Will be glad to use my influence if it
be needed, with my friends in the AS
eeinbly and Senate, in the interests of
the bill.''
Charles "A. Mac Call. director of com
pulsory education, said; II think THE
EVENING STARS anti-oocaine bill is
a mighty good thing. It will fill a long