AN ABODE OF “MANIACS”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 November 1922, Page 5

AN ABODE OF “MANIACS”

PHILADELPHIA* MOURNS HER LOST SOULS According to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, eighty drug addicts and traffickers were arrested in that city in two days--August 31 and September 1 of this year. “The shrieks of the drug craving prisoners made the room si und like an abode of maniacs,” says the report. Addicts and traffickers vcre of both sexes, and the accommodation of four police stations was so greatly overtaxed that many prisoners had to be accommodated in the sheriff’s room on the seventh floor of the central station. This is just one of the things that Prohibition has done for America, lb at a two-day police drive in one city could be responsible for the arrest of eighty drug-fiends points to a state of .affairs appalling to contemplate. It is a medical truism that of all human tailings the drug habit is the most soul-killing, _ Lie most debasing, the hardest to eradicate. Yot it is the' very habit to which the efforts of well-meaning but misguided fanatics have impelled the people of the United .States. The event, of Prohibition marked (lie beginning of a period of national demoralisation which is at pre sent giving pause even to the most enthusiastic supporters of the “dry” laws. Tliev find themselves enmeshed in a coil of llieir own unconscious weaving i they have conjuied into being a hydra-head-ed monster which is eating the national soul alive. Supposing, for a moment, that the police .f this country instituted a campaign to-morrow for the arrest of drug addicts and traffickeis. What would bo tho probable result? Would it lead to ■the apprehension of eighty—or or even one offender? No New lander believes in such a possibility, knowing that we are naturally sound and healthy. We are sound and healthy because we have a regulated # liquor tnide. by the operations of which we may obtain healthy stimulants m reasonable quantities. Lot us tiot hear * f bbrieks of iii «■ prisoners” echoing tlirough this so mi healthy Dominion. Vote Continuance, and keep the drug habit and other urn natural perversions out of the country. ‘

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