The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-12-22
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST DRUGS

wider and wider spreads the net.
They bring the cocoa leaves from
South America now and make cocaine,
the worst OF the whole tribe Of evil
drugs except heroin, and that Is diff
ferent only In degree.
The drug habit used to belong in the
underworld and I'm the underworld
alone.
That is no longer true. Doctors,
nurses, school teachers. high school
boys young girls, society women, ac-
tresses and actors, lawyers-it's an
organized and highly financial bust
ness, this drug traffic. It's reaching.
reaching for your children and mine.
Women Must Act.
And what are we going to do about
tive American women?
Sit down and smile and watch the
living death crawling to our very door
steps like venomous serpent?
Just before the war the whole world
was alive to the danger of the mar
cotic user. At the opium congress at
The Hague definite and concrete plans
were laid to kill the traffic.
DIR. Hamilton Wright was far
sighted. devoted and practical leader
in this fight, but the drug ring mere
ly laughed From one end of the
world to the other those who control
the drug traffic were amused and en-
tertained.
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They'll never do anything"
And the war broke out and every
thing went by the board.
Just as the drug ring had prophe-
sled.
But the war is over The world
is coming out of the hideous night
mare that held us enthralled so long.
Isn't there some way that we wo-
men here in this country can speak for
the women and fer the children in
| every other country on earth. so that
| the men of power and influence ga
| thered here in Washington today will
hear us and take this matter of the
| drug traffic into the disarmament
conference and set the world free,
once and for all. from the slavery of
narcotic durgs?
We are not asking much of the
| armament congress. we Americans.
We have no territory to demand. no
special help to ask in any way.
| Couldn't we take courage and beg of
the conference just this thing: we.
the women of America. couldn't We
say to all these powerful and bril-.
liant men: We do not know much
about Shantung, We don't all of us
understand the five-to-three-to-fiv
agreement. and some of us are stupid
enough to admit that it is hard for
us to remember the difference be-
tween a Jugoslav and Czechoslovak.
End Drug Evil
But this one thing We do know
this one thing we do entreat:
Help the homes of this world out
| from under the threatening cloud of
the drug slavery, and help us here in
America to drive the traffic out in
| the only way we can ever drive it
out-by International agreement.
Help your own peoples in your
| no home is safe with this evil
abroad in the world 1t was in
| this city that our great Lincoln
signed the emancipation proclama
| ton and freed the Southern slaves.
What a great, what noble, what
wonderful thing it would be if here
in this city could be signed an in
ternational agreement that would
strike off the shackles from millions
who are a thousand times more
| enslaved.
Put the opium traffic and the CO.
and key. Manufacture just enough
for legitimate use and not one grain
more. Stamp out the infamous traf-
fic and stamp 1t out now, this year,
this month. Make this act Christ
mast present to the world.
Two million drug slaves in the
United States right now Never for
get that for one minute. Two mil
lion!
Known addicts to the most horrible
habit in the world
Is there no way we can keep that
number down?
Speak up, women OF America, Is
this task you dare ask the dis
armament conference or not?
TO CURL BOB6ED HAIR