Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — Narcotic Drugs. [ARTICLE]

Narcotic Drugs.

The Medical and Surgical Exporter wants more laws to prohibit the indiscriminate traffic in narcotic drugs. It asks: “How many of the feebleminded and idiotic children that cost the public thousands of dollars annually to maintain are the logical results of the use of narcotics? God only knoAvs, but man may feel sure that the number is very great. In the name of humanity, as well as for the interests of political economy, we emphatically say that this diabolical traffic must be restricted, and these would-be moral and physical suicides must be restrained from their morbid and damning propensities.” The object and motive thus stated is good, beyond doubt, but the success or utility of prohibitory or restrictive laws remains a matter of grave question for doubt.— Dr. Fcote's Health Monthly.