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1 Abolition of the Opium Evil: Message from the President of the United States 1 (1913)

handle is hein.prescomm/anopteomel0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 63D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. DocUMENT 18t Session. f No. 33. ABOLITION OF THE OPIUM EVIL. - MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMrrING LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE ASKING FOR AN APPRO- PRIATION TO ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT TO MEET EXPENSES INCIDENTAL TO AND IN CONTINUITY OF ITS EFFORTS TO STAMP OUT THE OPIUM EVIL THROUGH THE FORTHCOMING FINAL CON- FERENCE AT THE HAGUE. Aram 21, 1913.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: In transmitting the accompanying report from the Secretary of State I most strongly urge not only the immediate appropriation of the sum of $20,000 which is asked, the absolute necessity for which is so apparent, but also the enactment of the requisite antidrug leg- islation to which this Government is pledged internationally. It is a source of gratification to me personally, and it will always be, I am confident, a subject of gratification to the Nation, that this Government, realizing the extent of the opium and allied evils, should have initiated the world-wide movement toward their abolition. At this vital period of the movement, to fail to take the few final steps necessary definitively and successfully to conclude the work would be unthinkable, and I therefore trust that there may be no delay in the enactment of the desired legislation, and the consequent mitiga- tion if not suppression of the vice which has caused such world-wide misery and degradation. WOOW OW WILSON. T HE WHrITE HOUSE, April 21, 1918.

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