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Show SOME REAL INTERNATIONALISM. Those hopeful souls who believe that the United States is going to help the American people and the rest of the world by surrendering its future to the decisions of world tribunals tri-bunals in which Arrierica would have a slight minority voice, and the "integration" "in-tegration" of America with the political po-litical and economic systems of foreign for-eign lands should proceed, are invited invit-ed to consider the record of the sundry sun-dry international narcotic conferences confer-ences in which American representatives representa-tives have participated. At all of these conferences the American delegates have demanded the suppression of the narcotic trade which yields a profit of a quarter of a billion dollars annually to dealers in death-dealing drugs throughout the world. Seven and a half tons' of narcotics yearly will supply the medical medi-cal needs of the world for these drugs. Five hundred and twenty tons of opium for smoking and eating were legally manufactured and sold in the British possessions during the last five . years. A vast amount of this output entered the illegal trade in opium throughout the world. At the Geneva anti-narcotic conference con-ference the American delegates found themselves thwarted in their demand for suppression of the illegal narcotic nar-cotic traffic at every turn. The suggestion sug-gestion that all narcotics seized on account of illegal distribution be destroyed was voted down. It is well-known well-known that this traffic is carried on by powerful dope rings which influence influ-ence the attitude of foreign governments govern-ments on account of the profit to be made out of ruining the minds and bodies of millions of people, and turning turn-ing them into lunatics or dangerous criminals. : If the United States finds itself helpless in an international conference confer-ence on so necessary a measure of social hetterment as this, what reason rea-son is there to suppose that we are going to help ourselves by agreeing to submit to the decisions of international interna-tional tribunals in which we will exercise exer-cise the same amount of influence ? |