Show DOPE bop FIENDS TO BE CUT cur OFF FROM THE THE THET r CRAPE CRE New Law If Enforced Will Reform or Drive From City Many Thieves and Other Outcasts s Enslaved by Opium and Cocaine l I If It tIle new law regulating the sale of opium cocaine and other drugs which is isnow Isnow isnow now In effect eff ef ct is strictly enforced Salt Lake will soon s on cease to be an abiding place for dope fiends Under old con conditions conditions It was such an easy matter for victims of the drug habit to obtain the poisons they craved that the city har hare harbored harbored bored a large number of the unfortunate slaves of narcotics It was partly through the efforts of the druggists as association association association that the tile reformatory law was passed The druggists knowing better than others the evils of laxity in the sale of dangerous drugs urged the passing of the new law by the state legislature In the absence of restrictions upon the sale of opium morphine laudanum co cocaine cocaine cocaine caine and other drugs used by b the wretched people who have hae yielded to the of narcotics the cheap lodging houses of Salt Lake became filled with degraded outcasts some of them beggars begga some of them thieves whose presence inthe in inthe Inthe the city elty has been a great annoyance to the police pollee and to citizens Many of the vagrants picked up in the streets and sentenced to the chain gang are drug users or in the language of ot their world hop heads Fall From Good Positions Numbers of the petty pett thieves are of the same cia of unfortunates These men are often otten educated and have fallen from Crom good positions in so society society clety through the degrading effects of their vice Unable to fill Cill positions for Cor which they have been trained and for which they are often splendidly equipped they the are thrown world hapless hapl wanderers usually too weak and debili debilitated debilitated debilitated to resort to the simple ing toll toil of an humbler condition Spurred y want they thea the either resort to beggary beggar or orto orto orto to thieving thid in the end become ab abject abJect outcasts whose time is passed chief chiefly ly Iy y in jails There is a man now working in the chain gang whose father was a judge of the supreme bench of Wyoming He had every eer advantage and every en cn encouragement encouragement to hew out an honorable cu eu career reer but he fell tell under the influence of drugs and is now one of oC the most pitiable pitiable pitiable ble wrecks among the hapless wretches In the city jail The cheap che p lodging lod ing teem with such men and women The rhe police pollee who have watched many of these unfortunates from the beginning of their downward way wa can tell strange stories of ruined ambitions wrecked homes and broken hearts which cling about some of the shabby unkempt creatures of the slums There Is a man in Salt Lake who makes a meagre living by carrying about signs who it is said was at one time a pros prosperous prosperous prosperous real estate man Now his ruling desire is the satisfying of his craving for cocaine Laxity of Old Methods An example of the laxity of the old methods of selling drugs was given re recently recently during the tIle investigation of a sui suicide suicide cide case A woman had killed herself by drinking laudanum The bottle bore the label of a drug store As there was some doubt douht as to whether the woman had bought the poison polson or had received l lIt It from some other person the druggist was questioned I am not able to tell teU who bought the bottle of laudanum he said We Ve sell sellS so S much of the poison that it is impossible Impossible impossible sible for us to keep track of the sales Few people eople know how numerous the dope fiends are in Salt Lake Laie They are found in many walks wants of life but the vice has its strongest grip upon the creatures of the slums In the high higher I Ier er walks of life the unhappy men and women who are enslaved are usually in inthe Inthe inthe the beginning of their fight fI ht with the mon monster monster monster ster or they have friends who hold them In their positions and prevent their sink sinkIng sinkIng sinking Ing beneath the surface of degradation In the slums live the men and women who have fallen Callen too low for friends to tl cling to them longer and too low to value the good opinion of the world The new law makes it unlawful for druggists to sell patent or proprietary medicines containing opium or any an of Us its derivatives alpha or beta choral hydrate hydride or alcohol or preparations except upon the prescription of a doctor It is also forbidden to sell cocaine or preparations in which it Is an ingredient except upon the prescription of a practicing practicing practicing physician a dental surgeon or a veterinary surgeon Penalty for Cor violation of the new law is a minimum fine of 25 and l a maximum fine of v |