San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14
By JOIN GARDINER.


Copyright, 1928, by The san Antonio Light,
Montreal, Jan. r13.-Montrcal, cen
ter of the drug traffic on the North
American continent is about to be
cleaned w and with this cleaning it is
believed that drug running into the
United States virtually will be at an
end.
Montreal today hangs its head in
shame. 1t has been pilloried by one
of its people. Headquarters of the
bootleggcr, the silk smugglcr and the
dope pcddler, this metropolis Of the
Dominion of Canada has attracted
also the painted lady" and altogether
earned for itself very unCnyiable
reputation. Vice conditions here have
been scathingly indicted by Major DR..
Haywood, superintendent of the gen
eral hospital. In a special report he
has declared Montreal to be one of the
few cities left on this continent to
flaunt it's "red lights" in the face OF
the general public.
In dcnouncing the liberation OF
Commercialized vice, through the mac
ton of officials and the indifference
of citizens. he has given full vent to
his feelings and it must be admitted
that for the first time in the history
of the Paris of North America" the
bombshell thus exploded has stirred m
public and official feelings to the limit.
Montreal has become the rendezvous
for leaders of the underworld from
every part of the Western Hemisphere.
Bishop Pledges Cleanup Aid.
So deep has been the feeling stirred
by the special report that today the
1T. Rev. John Farthing, bishop of
Montreal, pledged the full support of
the Anglican church. to the cleanup
demanded by Major Haywood. This IS
taken to mean that Montreals reform
wave is on in earnest.
This reform. if carried out. will have
a far-reaching effect in the United
States. The yearly traffic in drugs
passing through this city has amounted
to more than 100000, according to
Major Haywood. Montreal naturally
is in a geographical situation to at
tract such trade. In addition to be-
ing a seaport and the terminus of
many Canadian and United States rail
ways, it is also within thirty-five miles
of the American border, with the best
highways connecting it up with the
largest American cities.
Major Haywood makes no attempt
at rhetoric. no effort to thrill or to
paint conditions in a more lurid light
than the facts warranted.
The statistics quoted were marshall
ed with the extreme care and accuracy
and the examples quoted were largely
from the personal knowledge which the
superintendent Of a large city hospital
is naturally in unique position to
secure.
Not one man in ten thousand in
this city knew, until the Haywood re-
port came out, that so much deprayity
and shame existed in the vicious areas
of Montreal.
Says Officials Indifferent.
The soldier-doctor charged the Off
Gals of Montreal responsible for the
checking of a crime with indifference
to conditions and even connivance. He
placed many of the police and officers
of the detective force under a shadow
with his revelations.
His evidence indicated a close con-
nection between vice and the drug
traffic and proved that tenderlOin re-
sorts, allowed TO openly carry On their
nefarious industry, were harbors of
thieves, murderers and criminals from
every part of the United States and
Canada.
Montreal was characterized By him