The Washington times., 1923-01-24
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shipped an amount equal to 37s,.
900, 900 average doses Of morphine,
$4,000, 900 doses Of cocaine and 148,-
600, 900 average doses Of opium.
During one month, there were In
the customs office at Seattle await
ing. shipment a few cases consigned
from New York and Philadelphia to
oriental ports and these cases con-
tanned 100000 doses of morphine
salts and 17,500,0 900 doses morphine
hydrochloride.
Most Of this shipment was con-
signed to Japan.
The amount shipped by American
consigners to japan. by way Of
Seattle alone, during the five
amounted to about ten doses for
every man, woman and child In
Japan.
Pleasant news for the Mikado.
But not 90 very unpleasant either,
perhaps.
Japanese Don't Use 1t.
The japanese do not use carcotics
s-they sell them to other nations to
use. What are the Japanese doing
with all this dope?
They are shipping some Of 1t to
China-quite openly. by way OF their
own post offices.
The great tight about the Japanese
postoffices In China, which was one
of the mysteries Of the Washington
Peace Conference. was nothing in
the world but fight about narcotic
drugs.
China has made q gallant fight TO
Hhraxw nff drFr0 GlaxyoTv and China
won-after two wars.
They ploughed up their fields,
burned their opium, and made bon
fires of their opium layouts-in the
public squares.
But linda went right on raising
opium and selling It to the japanese,
and the japanese sent 1t into China,
and every japanese postoffice in
China Ia to this day nest Of dope"
peddlers.
Farmers Raising It.
Any Chinese coolie can step over
the line to japanese territory and get
q shot Of morphine for less than a
half a cent Of our money.
And now that It seems to be Inn
possible to keep the dope" from
coming in from other countries, the
Chinese farmers are going back to
raising 1t themselves.
In Siberia, the new Russian gov
eminent has tried to stamp out the
cultivation of opium, but the peasants |
arm themselves to protect their fields |
and 1t would take an army there now |
to stamp out the production.
What does all this mean to you |
and to me?
It means lust this:
America uses forty times more |
rdope" than any other white nation |
we buy the crude opium and the |
coca leaves '1egitimately" wherever |
we can get 1t, manufacture 1t into |
morphine, cocaine, and heroin "legiti- |
mately" by way Of the smugglers.
Comes Back to y. 8.
Ship it out Of this country to Eu- |
rope. to China, to Japan, and back |
st comes again "illegimately" by way |
OF the .smuggiers.
It's a long lane full Of devious
Wanderings. but 1t always turns and |
comes back home-to your town and !
my town, to your country and my |
country, to threaten your children |
and my children.
The children-Oh, that Is another |
story. Wen talk that another day. |
Today, we will deal with the dope |
ring" and its methods.
Strange company they keep; some |
of these great manufacturers and
merchants.
Strange companions they make;
some OF the great nations OF the
earth, when they make q national
business of the dope traffic"
Beggars and Thieves.
Beggars and thieves, smugglers
and murderers, street peddlers Turk.
ing In dark alleys, slippery doctors
driving a nefarious business under
the cloak of an honorable profes-
sion-strange comrade for upright
and honorable men engaged in1
Legitimate" business.
Down from Canada It comes-the
dope" in motor cars, in bicycle
tires. sewn In the clothing Of
tramps.
Hidden in the hair Of women IN
the Pullman cars, brought in by
dining-car walters and porters and
travelling men" with business-like
looking bags.
1t comes in shifts from the Allan.
water tanks, In the steam coils, In
the walls and floors of cabins and
companion ways.
Sealed In Tomato Cans.
Out in San Francisco. the other
day, they found $4,000 worth of
opium and morphine sealed up in
cans supposed to contain tomatoes.
In big ships 1t comes. In sehooners,
In freighters, the crew brings 1t In.
And IL some of the wireless mes
sages sent from China to a ship In
mid-ocean and from that ship to a
confederate on shore could be read
and transplanted, strange tremors
might pass down the spines of many
respectable persons engaged In what
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