One of the best laws ever enacted in New York State is the bill
just signed by Governor Hughes which declares any person having
cocaine upon his person, unless secured upon the prescription
of a physician, and having a certificate from the druggist
from whom he purchased the drug, guilty of a felony. This new
law, which is directed against men who financially profit by
the diseased appetites of victims of cocaine, will, according
to health and police officials, sound the death-knell of the
promiscuous sale of the most deadly of drugs. Chief Inspector
Fuller, of the New York Health Department, says: “With this
law on the statute-books I can promise that with the staff of
inspectors I have at my disposal I will wipe out this most
vicious evil. The jails are yawning for these criminals who are
making fiends out of the New York boys and girls. This law will
make possible the placing of those criminals behind the prison
bars. Many a mother and sister will to-day rejoice, upon reading
of this new law. It will perhaps mean the saving of their boy
or girl from death itself. No one is more pleased with this law
than myself and my inspectors, who have been fighting night and
day to suppress the evil.”--_Christian Work._
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=Cocksureness=--See SELF-CENTERED.