Show OPIUM FROM CANADA working gr tho drug across tho bordor border lino line la iu spite of government n very largo amount ot of the narcotic la Is secretly drought arross across A prominent boston physician says that it would startle the people of f boston generally were it known 0 to what great extent the use of opium had already gone in this city not only among the chinese for it lias has been understood that this class of t the h population use the drug but among a the abo white residents the physicians of f this city have fought vehemently 0 against tile the use of opiates to quiet children and they have accomplished something in that direction but it is still evident that a 6 far larger quantity of opium is used in this city than is accounted 0 for in the druggists in st statement tte of sales says the boston advertiser 11 more than one boston physician could if the principles of their profession allowed give some grave facts regarding the ruin wrought by the drug in boston homes now and then the police make a raid on some opium room but their efforts have not succeeded in checking the use of opu opium to any extent A special agent of the treasury said lately in reply to sonic some questions in this connection that apiu opium M smuggling was carried on across the canadian border today to day in spite of the arrest of so many gangs of smugglers ra in the past the stuff can be bought for 0 a pound in montreal and can bo be sold here at 10 or more per pound according to its quality the drug is easily carried in large weight and one man can carry from to fifty pounds pound and can escape detection tec tion the trade of smuggling opium is of course a very profitable one and as the smugglers have about one thousand 1 t two hundred miles of border over which they can cross they have a good opportunity to do business without being caught the favorite method of the smugglers is to take the train from montreal to a xray way station not far from tk th boundary and to cross the line in carria carriage c eto to some small station on the american side in this way vay they es cape the search of the re regular 0 ular customs 0 officers whose dut duty y it is to examine the luggage of railroad passengers at the boundary some smuggling is ah alo aho o dono by hiding biding 0 the opium in bulky pac packages hages of freight at best the government has a small asdall force of customs officers along the border and the smugglers do a thriving iriving tl ti trade ade they can sell opium more cheaply than rg regular 0 dealers of course and a large part of the opium used in boston comes over the border without paying duty only ten years ago pounds were imported into ca canada n ada last year the amount was ivas about pounds and it is said that pounds were smuggled across the line last year to united states consumers in view of the increase in the use of opium in this section it is a matter of some interest that the canadian government is at last considering the plan of putting a watch on the opium refineries in tho the dominion practically compelling the refineries to carry on their work in bond under government inspection if this should be lone done a prompt check would be put upon the smugglers and it would no longer be easy to get opium so BO cheaply in boston the great increase in in price would serve to close up some of the opium joints and ana would probably put a check upon tile tho growth of the opium ho bit 11 |