THE DREES HABIT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2109, 28 March 1914, Page 4

THE DREES HABIT.

A FIELD FOR MORAL REFORMERS. "God only knows what- the extent of the drug habit is in iht> "United States to-day.," said tho Rev. Dr. Hughes at the annual meeting jpf tho New Zealand Anti-Opium Association last evening, "The clergy dd Jiot know and politicians do hot know. It is only, those who Avorlt in .the great underworld of New Yor.k, Chicago. St. Louis, nli'd other big bitie?" who 'know much about it, . 1 have been drugged myself—they drug food, • such as bread aild ftsb, and ilowers and soft drinks are drugged, aild drugging .was a big factor in the white slave traffic. Many will ask: What, lias it got to do with . us? Rut if England was becoming alarmed at the increase in the drug l.iul;it, may wo not bo afraid Of it com- » ing to New Zealand? Was there not the need to sound a note of warning? "I. would offer tho suggestion that if the opium traffic was abolished in China thai wo should turn o.ur attention to (bo abolition of the traffic in .other countries, and launch ou.t a greater orgaitissttiajv to he called tho Anti-Drug Association of New Zealand, ft was going to be a great field for the moral refoimer in New Zealand."