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Show ij AN OGDEN ROBBERY THAT IM POINTS A MORAL jrj With a glass cutter, two men en- tered the wholesale house of the Og- den Pharmacal company at night j' a and raided the basement In order to I obtain cocaine and morphine. It goes I without saying, the robbers are j H "dope" fiends, led to commit their H; acts of burglary primarily by their i nk craving for the drugs. The men took : ! ; with them cocaine valued at whole- ;, ' sale at $250, which, retailed to the 'S victims of the cocaine habit, should . j return $1000. X Officers and others familiar with if. , the traf ffc state that a cocaine fiend JvJt I will go to any extreme to obtain the i L drug, and will resort even to murder, g and they predict that the thieves who ! made the big haul in the Ogden drug ; bouse will have great difficulty in ' retailing the stolen goods, as their I i very liveB will be endangered, if the il j : fiends with whom they deal learn 1 1 that the vendors have any consider- ! ' ! able quantity of cocaine in their po3- 1 : session. ! The local wholesale drug house, like every reputable drug house in . j ; the country, has been cutting down -k" Its stock.-of cocaine and holding drug j a stores to a limited supply, any un- i J. usually large orders calling for a I ' i careful Investigation. This Is made necessary by reason of tho fact that r the cocaine habit Is growing and those claimed by the drug are a ! menace to the poace pf any cdmmu- ft nlty. The government Is laboring to S check the traffic and tho big wholesale whole-sale drug companies are co-operating with the federal authorities in thy work of lessening the evil. In certain cities, whole neighborhoods neighbor-hoods become corrupted by the habit. hab-it. In Chicago, the workers in the produce houses are nearly all dopo fiends. A few years ago, the discovery discov-ery was made that many of the messenger mes-senger boys of Salt Lake C(ty were addicted to cocaine, and two of tho youngsters, who obtained employ-1 employ-1 ment in Ogden, demoralized a gang v 1 of local boys who no sooner became regular users of the drug than thoy started out on careers of outlawry and had succeeded so well in playing the role of bandits that thoy had hold up and robbed many persons before they finally were caught in tho act of robbing and beating a Chinese gardener. China has been cursed by the opium trade, forced on that country by tho British government In aiding the poppy growers of India, and Americans long wondered why China submitted to a vice which robbed its people of their mentality and physical phys-ical strength. Now we have the same thing brought home to us, only with this difference to our discredit that wo have acquired the habit without being forced to open our doors to the brain and character destroying drug. Some writers place tho cocaine habit hab-it as abovo that of strong drink In the destructive forces in this nation. |