New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-03

been spendidly backed by the German
Apothecary Society. When Mr.. Cropsey
was Police Commissioner. ne said, he had
laid evidence before him which led to the
arrest of number OF illegitmate dealers
in the drugs. after the local Board OF
Health and the State Board of Pharmacy
had both refused to take up the matter.
The police have a pretty hard row to
hoe in this case" he remarked, and
found them willing workers then. II Is
only right to give the devil his due. But
perhaps Mr. Waldo has other ideas on
this subject from those of his predeces-
sor 1 have not noticed that he has been
particularly active in his efforts to sup
press the traffic"
Prisoners Obtain the Drug.
Father Curry, of st. James's Roman
Catholic Church, in James street, has
fought the traffic vigorously in his dis
trict for years. He opened up a new field
crying for reform when he stated that many
young men who had resisted the fatal
habit for years finally contracted it when
they were sent to prison. for minor Of
fence, perhaps. There was no doubt, he
said, that cocaine could be obtained by
inmates of the city prison. He recalled
the case of a young man whom he had
visited in one of the prisons only a
few days before. who told him he could
set it by the paiful."
That was doubtless a picturesque ex-
aggeration," the priest said. but
search of visitors has more than once
80 drug
which they We're smuggling in to their
friends behind the bars, and it is impos-
sible to suppose that considerable guam
titles Of it escape the eyes of the watchers.
The stuff is hidden in the hatbands OF
visitors. in cigars, in food and In soou-
ness knows how many other places.
In am ordinarily a strong advocate OF
suspended sentences, but L think man
convicted of selling these haoit-formlng
drugs should be given the maximum
sentence which the law permits. and l APP
peal 20 the judges to be as severe In their
treatment of these criminals as they can
The morphine fiend's only weakness is
toward morphine, but the coke user
has no soul that can be appealed TO-
There is no crime in the calendar 10
which he will not stoop, yet even our 1T
tie children can get this drug with The
greatest ease.
But not in this neighborhood,' addeo
Father Curry. Il think we've stamped
it out of here pretty well"
Drug Stronger Than User
1.-THE great danger from cocaine saio
DR.. James ]. Walsh, former dean OF
Fordham Medical School. is the lnsid-
ious way in which it gets hold OF the
beginner. The peculiar characteristic OF
cocaine is that its charm is negative
rather than positive. 1 mean by this that
il is not so much the effects of the stimuli
lation which instantly follow its use as
the horrible reaction, which demands an
other dose If relief is to be obtained III
other words, cocaine, unlike alcohol, does
not enthran it's victims so much by the
monetary heaven il creates as 1t does Dy
the hell which so Immediately succeeds
II believe the use of so-called snun LOT
catarrh created in the beginning much OF
the liking for the drug. All these snuiis
contained cocaine. There is ten times as
much cocaine used in the large cities OF
the country as is necessary. 1t ought
never TO be used except in the most ex-
traordinary cases and under the direction
of a skilful physician"