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his State Tor his honesty ana
ability.
The girls were introduced to
the drug by the family doctor,
who was a dope fiend" himself.
Boys and girls, yes. children,
too, the drug net gathers them
in, as the brown nets the deep-sea
fishers cast gather in the fish.
They send children out to ped
die drugs from house to house,
in dark streets, where no child'S
foot ever should tread and in
three different cities drug peddlers
have been caught in the last six
months selling to high school
boys and girls.
And not all of these high schools
where the peddlers go to look for
customers are in the worst parts
Of the great cities.
Some of them are not in the
cities at all.
The State pharmacy officials
found a woman selling dope" all
through a chain Of little quiet
country towns where you'd think
there wasn't a thing but lilacs
and sweet peas in the summer
and Christmas trees in the win
ter.
IN COUNTRY SCHOOLS.
The dope ring and those who
work for it and with it and in
it do not forget the little red
schoolhouse.
The country towns of America
are alive. with dope" and we
have records and names and dates
to prove it.
The farming country in some
districts is alive with dope" and
we have records and names and
dates in this very office to
prove it.
One hired man in the South
west came North six months ago
and left behind him nineteen
dope" slaves and every one Of
them but one was a boy under
seventeen.
The hired man had taught them
all the habit.
It had begun in a rainy after
noon out in the barn, nothing to
do-tired Of talking. tired Of the
old jokes.
WORKED ON COMMISSION.
The hired man showed "Bub."
the son of the house, new
way to spend an hour with a
shot Of morphine.
Take morphine for two weeks
steadily every day and your Q
slave for life.
When Bud got the habit he
passed It on. Nineteen husky,
promising youngsters led down
the road of agony and disgrace
by one man. =
What a fend he must have been,
you think.
Not at all. He was "go-getter,"
that's what they call them in the
trade.
He was paid q neat little com.
mission for every new slave he
brought to the ring.
And when he had worked that
field for all it was worth he came
north to find q new one.
The last that was heard Of him
he was on his way to the orchards
of California.
BOY BEGS FOR dope"
1 wonder how many boys he will
find there to whom he can teach
the new sensation and the ancient
agony?
They arrested five tramps in a
freight car near Omaha not long
ago. Somebody heard screams
from the car and when the officers
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gale of laughter over the scream
ing agony of a little boy who was
begging for dope"
They had taught him the habit
So they could have the fun OF
watching his torment when he beg.
ged for morphine.
Is there a regular dope ring, reg
ularly organized, for the traffic?
STARTS IN ORIENT.
There is a big ring, which be-
gins in the Orient, where most OF
the stuff is raised, and circles the
globe through America to Europe,
through Asia to America again.
And this ring is broken into
scores of smaller rings, and every
one of them has its code and it's
business rivals.
Every new hop head is good
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