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Show COCAINE AS A NATIONAL DANGER. Astoundinp arc the umpires present -ed by Dr. L F, Kehler of the United States bureau of chemlstrj on the "dope fiends" in the L'nitcd StatOB The average American will tell von that China is the worst cursed nation on earth with its opium traffic, but Kebler reports 4,000,000 victims of the cocaine morphine, opium and other drug habits in this country, placing the United States in the same class with China as menaced by vile hab its. The spread of the irug habit Ivas 1 become so alarming that a bill has been introduced in congress to restrict re-strict the manufacture and sale of habit forming drugs. Four years ago Ogden was made aware of the evils of ihe cocaine hab-! hab-! it when a gang of young boys came wiibin the clutches of the law after the gangsters had brutally beaten a Chinaman in an attempted robbery Investigation In-vestigation proved that the youngsters wero cocaine fiends, that the habit i had been formed through association with messenger boys from Salt Lake. J and that the victims of the drug bad I become irresponsible, with moral sen-1 sen-1 slbllitiee blunted and will power de-I de-I stroyed With 4,000.000 drug fiends In the ' Cnited States, this country has a big- ger problem than that of strong drink . m- J to solve. |