New Britain herald., 1927-10-17
DRUG TRAFFIC ARMY
 MENACE ID NATION
Capt. HObSOn Points Out Horror
 Of Growing Evil

u GGOWll9 EVIL
 Charges that the liquor interests
 were linked up with the illegal drug
 sellers were made at a session of
 Everyman's Bible class yesterday
 by Captain Richmond Pearson Hob-
 son, hero of the Spanish American
 war Saptain Hobson spoke to 165
 men at the Bible class and later to
 larger gathering at Trinity M. E.
 church.
 In his address to the Bible class
 he said:
 My address will be on the crisis that has been brought about by the offensive alliance of the liquor traf- 1ic and the drug traffic of the world, with America as the objective. IL is because we have gone dry, and they are aiming at our undoing, that has brought this crisis upon us.
 This morning I will take up the narcotic drugs. Alcohol is one of the narcotic drugs. It is down near the bottom of the scale One of the characteristics of these commodities is that they are soluble in fat. The last thing surgeon does to get the specks of dirt and grease off is 10 use alcohol. The sheathing that protects the upper brain is largely fat. When things that would injure your brain or attack your children yet unborn come down the blood current and reach this protective Sheathing. the fat just pulls them in; it just absorbs them. It is a trap.
 The other characteristic is that they produce a sensation; they have what is called a kick Nature is very much alarmed when these particular poisons come into the system; she is not equipped to re- sist them and she is very much alarm q, so she starts developing anti-poisons, antidotes and We have called them antitoXins.
 For instance, you take one-tenth Of grain q day of morphine or heroin and before very long nature neutralizes that much a day; then II you want to get the drug effect you will have to go above that. Then nature will ncutralize that. When the drug subsidies and YOU cannot get it, these apti-poisons in the system do not subsidc and they set up a condition in the system that is very disagreeable. In the case of alcohol they call it craze in the case of narcotic drugs it is 'torture.' When you get your drug then it neutralizes again and brings relief, so you want it. They are habit forming in that respect.
 Tn the case of the narcotic drugs the addiction is created in a. very short time; in the case of all cohol 1t takes a longer time. After ., while everything else is subiu- gated to it and the users become slaves of those who controlthe sup ply. Slavery has always been re- sarded as profitable This form of slavery 10 these, powerful drugs has | brought most serious problems to mankind.
 NOW I will just give you little 1 comparison. l am going to pass from alcohol up 10 heroin-from | about the lowest to the highest. | There are many hundred per cent , profit sometimes in alcohol. In the case of heroin, between the crude opium and the heroin. there arc i, profits of $500 odd per cent.
 Hcroin Claims Young Victims
 Tt takes years really 10 produce an alcohol slave-an addict. The age at which they hook our youth with the heroin is between 16 and 20. At that age one sniff a day of this heroin Nhoy put it on the wrist and sniff iD and in a week the victim is an incurabe heroin addict and belongs to what the scientific men now call the ranks of the living dead They must have more and more of the drug or they suffer indescribable torture.
 'They have two characteristics- the hcroin addict: First, for a ccr- tain time due to the paralysis of certain centers of the upper brain, certain lower motives are liberated, chiefly the ego. There is a tremen- ious imitation of the ego, and the poor youth thinks he's a hero. That's why they call it heroin. He oscs his sense of caution, of fear md of pity. He makes a wonder 'ul bandit. The more hazardous an enterprise the more it suits his . psychology. So a new bandtry has been developed 10 prey upon wealth which heretofore has been more or ess secure-dayligh robberies, etc. They are accomplished by great ;ruelty. The heroin addict has no ,> ,ity no sense of sympathy. After I le's gotten your money he would , 'ather kill you than not if he can get some sort of heroics out of it. , This banditry has spread all 7 'ver America. It has recently T broken out in London, Paris. Where f yer you see daylight robberies you q ;now there's your heroin. T "Heroin was not discovered until 3 sos. It was not exported until |