Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-20
GREAT NATIONAL MANAGE
Narcotic Dealers Seek Ruin OF.
America.
SAFETY ONLY In ETERNAL VIGILANCE
international Seoundre;s Who Sell
Whisky, Opium and cther Drugs
Not So Much Interested in Personal
Profit as in Americas Downfall.

Not So Much Interested in Personal
Profit as in Americas Downfall.
New York Evening Telegram.
The confession of Paul Larson. con-
victed member of an organization OF
foreign drug smugglers, has added
another conv lcing proof of tie
theory OF number of authorities,
Federal and municipal, engaged in
running it down that the main object
behind the traffic is the destruction of
the United States and the enslaving
of it's people through sakening of its
moral fibre, and not the greed OF
money, as is popularly supposed.
Armed with copy of this confess
sion, the writer sought out Larson,
intent, If possible, on getting him to
amplify it, Larson did so calmly,
earnestly and straightcorwardy. His
disclosures were sensational and they
constitute cause for genuine alarm.
If it were suddenly proved that
foreign, long established government
was plotting our downfall the average
American would be angry, yes, more
than tLat-mad But here, said Lar
son, is something more powerful and
harder to fight than any government.
From his description 1t is far more in
sidious, more secretive, more damnable
"a group of fiends working under
cover to undermine us through the
horrifying agency of heroine, opium,
cocaine, morphine, hasheesh and other
soul destroying drugs.
The pacifist propaganda spread by
Germany before and during the late
war is child's play compared to this
danger.
1T is generally believed" said Lar
son, that money is the root of the
drug traffic. Perhaps Il is, but it is
only that money that can be gotten
higher-ups' back of the game think
nothing of millions. Would you be-
lieve that the confiscation of S2,5O0,0 900
worth of narcotics by New York GUS
toms authorities in one day last year
only produced a laugh on their part?"
he asked.
Money No Object,
1T is a fact. Almost every paper
you pick up carries a story showing the
confiscation of drugs with values
ranging anywhere between $4,000 to
100000, and often much more Does
it stop it? Continued apprehension of
carriers shows that it does not.
Lately, I'll confess, it is slowing up.
But unless intense Vigilance is exer-
cised it will be renewed and in ever
increasing volume"
"Will you be specific and tell me-"
the writer asked, "whcrc the scat OF
this traffic is and who is back of it,"
THE seat" he replied, ''is in the Far
East and the bulk of ii is backed by
Japanese subjects. Most OF the raw
material is shipped from that country
to Germany, where it is sold TO manu-
facturers. Then it is repurchased. not
by the Japanese themselves, but by
their agents, and then distributed.
MY knowledge came from ten years
of experience and it is concurred in by
every agent. We believe it is their
plan to demoralize the United States
and to make easy prey of her..
''Be sccpticaf as you will. 1t may
not be in your day or in mine that the
climax will come, but unless YOU con-
tnue to stand guard your descendants
will see the day. The 'higher-ups' are
mot dealing alone in years, but in CEN
turics."
Lullcd into n sense of security by
insincere praise about how wonderful
you people are rs regards your stand
ards of convcntionality and high civil
lization You are being undermined by
these same interests.
"Phe United States is the ultimate
destination Of all the illicit. drug traf-
fic."
Here Larson took the writer's pencil
and sketchGd a crude map of the world,
showing routes over when the drugs
go.
Base in Far East.
With the Far East as the general
base and Japan as the specific" he