| Show v y I OPIUM riFf ENSLAVES HUNDREDS DS Of VICTIMS IS IN SALT S lT LAKE lAK CITY i r r 7 11 i G t I Ii i 1 H r rr r Tv r r Since box was first opened and all the woes and misery to which this world is akin alin were Spread abroad by that overcurious legendary house housewife wife mortal man has sought ought some sort of a nepenthe n to lessen lesen his sufferings and to hide his misfortunes in the cloak of sweet oblivion He has found the sleep p sisters whose siren voices have caused him to for forget get momentarily Ills His sorrows but they have hao led him on with sweet promises till tilt he lie has lias forgotten duty dut manhood and s and then firmly se secured secured secured cured him a slaw slate sla 16 to O their every ca caprice caprice price Opium Plum morphine cocaine and chloral are in common use by b the habitual misguided dope fiend By B far the most accursed habit contracted through the use of these drugs the most enslaving in its character and the themo most mo t degrading in its results is tho the baneful b practice of hitting the pipe Slums of Salt Lake The slums shuns slum i of Salt Lake like e those i rr f r every other western city elt are peopled with tho the devotees of this vicious habit In Lt the toe Orien Orients hotels of Plum alley at atthe atthe the th rear of Commercial street laun laundries laundries dries In vile smelling basements two stories below bolow the me earth in the tho filthy filth garrets of the lodging houses may be found the opium slaves black white and md yellow calmly hitting the pipe There are no real opium dives in Salt Lake Lak where whore any an may go open openly openly openly ly and secure a pipe and imd layout la out but the there e are aro plenty plant of places to which the cowering ng slaves slink lInk safe out of reach of o Ute the law Jaw Ono Oue of these places was visited by b a Herald representative It was wa b bs n Chinese lodging house on Plum alky UC ilc and had at one time been used as asa asa 1 a f fan tan gambling ambling house patronized mostly by 1 and negroes In the front frou room of th the thO place were a n number of or sitting about and chatting Most of them were in native nathe costume Their sallow faces their heavy hea deadened eyes and their full sensuous lips showed showell them to be unmistakably slaves to the pipe Reeking With Filth Beyond nt yond Ord this room and toward the rear of or the building was as a little boxlike box boxlike boxlike like stall with the tho partitions not quite reaching to the ceiling from which is issued i issued 1 sued the repugnant smell of the poison The Thc place was only about eight feet square and find along one side was waR built a ahard ahard hard woOden woodmen bunk covered with mat matting matting matting ting about four feet from the floor TIc TLe place was reeking with filth and over overrun overrun overrun run with vermin On the bunk was the th reclining r form of a Chinaman seeking oblivion through the medium of the opium pipe Ho was stretched out at full Cull length half stupefied stupefied fied fled by the fumes from the pipe to which his hia swollen nerveless s lips were l glued His Ills lecherous yellow rellow visage was half lit up by b the Ule little opium lamp on which the thc bowl of ot the pipe was rest r i iThe The Mongolian started up at the tho In Intrusion Intrusion intrusion but with a 1 grunt of or displeasure ure ur at the interruption of his blissful dream fell foil back to the enjoyment of the pipe There Thre was no light save sari lE that of the opium lamp in which was wa burned hurne peanut oil giving off nn an odor that vit vil hl l till Ith that of or the opium in ht unpleasant unpleasantness ness ne s All 11 was silent except for fOl the tho huh hub hubbling bling and sizzling of or the pipe which suggested something weird and un nit uncanny canny l Starts in Curiosity The devotees of or o the opium habit are ae usually tsu the O who desire to lIlt hit the pipe Just jus once ce just t to see what its liko the Indolent who welcome th rI as a pleasant manner in do which to t rass Ta T ass s the time and amI the miserable m lc who think they the perceive in do the habit a n nolle olle for their misfortune Not a confirmed however ean cn be b sound mound Und who does docs not curse the day that he first be b bean an nn to hit the pipe pip The first pipe proves not at gt all A fow few more cause caus the thet t smokers Ima to run easily easU The Tho texture of hill hl m life is In his opium dreams reams woven thread of supreme happiness All AlI his desires are arc grau gratified gratified fied fled his ambitions are arc fulfilled and Rn ob that without the aid of tIll the drug appear Insurmountable when under its Inebriating Influence arc are unworthy of notice I Just as surely sureh as a the novice contin continues on ues tirs to practice tho habit tho fascination ras j of or the vice ice grows upon him more snore and more and he ho is led Ie l to the lowest depths I of ot degradation for the gratification of ot the abnormal appetite Moral Noral oral ruin rubs I comes to him bun and with it the obliteration obliteration obliteration tion of or every even honest Impulse and hon honorable lA sentiment Man I n soon toon become so FO debased de aed by b the drug that they wilt will smoke In the lowest and filthiest lens dens EV n those whose hose means moons are arc such sueh that they thy can afford a n private layout with witha i ia a clean dean equipment seem only to be able I ti to t satisfy their awful craving with a n I pipe hi in lowest dive die j Continued to Spread The opium plum habit was v transplanted to America by the Chinese A 4 California sporting sport 1 man named was the first white man in America to use the tho drug He Ho began hegan smoking opium in to 1868 and taught several of or his as the vice By 1873 lS tile the deadly dead r t habit had reached such proportions that the San Francisco council and the cite he Cal California California state legislature passed string stringent gent measures against opium stacking smoking They The wore were prompted to do this title by bJ the alarming number l of f juveniles who were were re becoming confirmed smokers Young girls were taught the habit by Ii shame shameless shameless less procurers in ht order that they might more easily be enticed into a life of shame Despite the action of the tho law the habit abit continued to spread and dens were opened d in all ail the coast towns Then with the tho migration o of tho the Chinese to the th interior cities the opium fiends in increased Increased increased creased in number and before c 1880 the vice had hud gained a strong foothold in eastern cities 01 1 Today Toda there are probably white hite men and women who smoke opium half halt as many negroes and 20 per cent of the entire Chinese population population population tion The vice is more prevalent in the west than in the east In Salt Lake out of it is said over use opium A large per cent of the tho negroes I here also smoke opium as well as ns an un Increasing number of white people The American opium smoker becomes more of a fiend and uses the In greater excess than does his Mongolian tutor I Claims Body and Soul The Tho Th opium fiend has lias little aide use for fOl re religion religion ligion He delivers himself body bod and an soul to the inebriating influence fit Of f the drug and Its transports To him heaven means plenty of the drug hell boll tin tIll abstinence Iron Irani it The destruction of oi Chinatown and rind with It the Vile ile V opium fleris s with which it has long Jons been inthe in inthe Inthe the San Francisco earthquake tc is as g one of the blessings bl bles of ot t tho te calamity The Chinese Quarter U nt 1 Hull tt It Lake Ilke is i not nearly steh sieh a menace mO m nace th u til tI tia ci as was waR that of lIn ir but tnt its re rl responsibility rem the spread of M th opium habit hero sere cannot t be rallied denied Chief of Police Sheets Sh salt said aldIn In spite of all the endeavors to check the thc practice of opium smoking in Salt Lake the number of or fiends in increases increases increases creases at an alarming rate There are areno areno areno no dens here where they congregate and smoke the last one having been raided and closed up a year ago but they thet manage to find some place lace to toral crawl ral into and am smoke their opium Two years ago azo there was scarcely a negro in Salt Lake Inke Lake who used the tho drug now there are scores of or them m They have h vo Oriental hop layouts in their rooms in Franklin avenue shacks where the they smoke by the hour The American fiend gives us much more m re trouble than the Chinaman The Tho opium seems to bring out his criminal char characteristics characteristics characteristics more and renders him a dangerous man ma Craving Is Insatiable While the Chinese are poor citizens in that they the take but little interest in inthe Inthe inthe the public welfare nevertheless ss they thc give ghe the police Dolke little trouble bouble and are usually extremely passive Know L of but one ne Chinese thief who was ever arrested in Salt Lake while the prison Is full of white and colored hop fiends Toy To Smith a negro highway robber who was recently sentenced to eighteen months In prison was an opium fiend of oC the tho worst type tyne It seems that the Americans arc are not nearly nearl so moderate In their use of I the drug The will smoke a afew afew afew few pipes of opium and then go back I Ito to work in his laundry while the American seems never able to satisfy his hi craving for tor the drug It was at one time the custom of or the department to supply prisoners who were cro opium fiends with the tho drug while I in Jail Gum opium was furnished the prisoners and was chewed by them to Ulay the tho appetite for the poison Dolson W 1 c decided however vel that the th city c ty should pot foster the vice any longer and opium is the prisoners now except in extreme cases case when to deny d n nit It would mean serious illness o |
