The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1921-12-23
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST DRUGS

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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 in 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 a 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.
Dr. Hamilton Wright was a far
sighted, devoted and practical leader
Ill 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.
Theories" said the drug ring.
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 I
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
the five-to-three-to-flve
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
he drug slavery, and help us here in
America to drive the traffic out in
he only way we can ever drive it
international agreement.
Help your own peoples in your
,wn homes, too, for no nation and
10 home is safe with this evil |
abroad in the world. 1t was In |
his city that our great Lincoln
signed the emancipation proclama-
ion and freed the Southern slaves
What great, what noble, what a
wonderful thing it would be if here
n this city could be signed an in |
ernational agreement that would
trike off the shackles from millions
gho are a thousand times more
nslaved
Put the opium traffic and the CO.
aine traffic under international lock
nd key. Manufacture Just enough
Or legitimate use and not one grain
lore. Stamp out the infamous traf-
C and stamp it out now, this year,
MS month. Make this act a Christ
last present to the world.
Two million drug slaves in the
nited States right now. Never for
ct that for one minute Two mil
on
Known addicts to the most horrible
abit in the world
Is there no way we can keep that
1mber down? !
Speak up, women of America! Is i
is task you dare ask the dis
'mament conference or not?
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