The Washington times., 1922-05-09
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Federal Departments Combine
to Battle Sinister Conspiracy
Of Dope" Ring.
By ANNIE LAURIE.

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A gigantic plot to smuggle
opiates and narcotic drugs of all
kinds into America, not by the
ounce. not by the pound, but by
the ton.
That's what Federal agents re-
port today to their Federal chiefs
in Washington.
Plain. matter-of-fact. practical
men. these agents. No vague
dreamers Of wild dreams. no
makers of sentimental stories:
just shsrp-eyed. level.hc AIDED, pCac-
tical Investigators. men Of eXpe-
rience and judgment and com
mon sense and wide acquaintance
sent out by the United States to
get the plain facts in the dope"
situation as il affects the United
States and the people Of the
United States. man by man,
woman by woman. and in the last
analysis child by child.
Tons Of Dope.
And there they are-the facts go
set down in plain English for every
American citizen 10 read and do his
best to understand.
Tons OF dope" held a foreign
ports TO be smuggled into America .
How?
BY whom?
For whose benefit"
For the benefit first. last and all
the time of the dope" ring-thqt
sinister band of secret members that
stretches around the globe.
How and by whom7
BY stewards and deck hands. and
by sailors and hy reputable locking
passengers, hidden In the hold, buried
in the steam pipes, covered by false
partitions in the boats. concealed in
false bottoms. in trunks and hand
bags. hidden in the head dress OF a
turbaned Hindu, or in the hair
OF a smartly dressed woman.
From China, from India. from
Japan.
From the Philippines. from Haiti
from the Straits settlements, and
some around by way OF London and
Edinburgh and by Italy. and by Ber
lin. and some-not much. but some
from France.
From Nladivosto ok and some from
Vienna and some from Holland and
some from our own country manu-
faCtured here legally exported and
now to he smuggled in again-all
this deadly poison headed by the
ton right straight for America.
Some to Canada and from there
10 Seattle and Portland and BuftH
10 and Detroit--oh. they found the
path all right. the sumgglers!-ard
not such very narrow path at
that
And some to Mexico and into the
United States by way Of Juarez and
FL Paso or into California by Tia
Juana and San Diego.
Travel Long Road.
It's long road they travel. the
little secret packages Of misery and
degradation. a long road full OF
twistings and turnings, but What
IL they come AT last-home to us.
Home to our cities and our towns
lone to our great country districts.
home to our boys and our girls.
A fine fat harvest they look for.
ward to-the members OF the
dope" rung. Good hunting. full
feeding and deep drink at the enc
Of the bargain.
Why not?
What are we and our children TO
them but foolish dupes.
Sowed and cultivated in India by
the English government, planted
and cultivated in Siberia by the
Japanese government, Teaped ami
harvested and sold again In open
auction in the open market place
over there in the Orient-bought
there by the big dealers. Turks and
Persians, Japanese and East In.
dians, renegade English and con.
sciousless Americans-and sold
again to the retailers and again
to the smugElers and again to the
peddlers.
Down to the riff raft and the
scum now-the poisonous stuff
down to the dregs OF humanity
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