*fc££,I5Sr}  Inaugural  Address.  83 
tion  of  vehicles  of  the  utmost  importance  to  the  physician  and  which 
must  be  handled  by  the  pharmacist.  Such  international  regulations, 
therefore,  must  be  coupled  with  a  means  of  providing-  for  the 
legitimate  use  of  these  articles. 
I  think  it  will  not  be  doubted  by  any  that  the  use  of  a  fermented 
or  alcoholic  beverage  in  the  family,  upon  the  family  table,  in  domestic 
sociability,  is  not  the  worst  feature  of  intemperance.  The  use 
of  alcohol,  opium,  morphia,  cocaine,  etc.,  as  official  drugs  should  not 
be,  and  could  not  be,  prohibited.  The  great  question  of  the  future 
therefore,  it  seems  to  me,  in  the  elimination  of  these  evils  which  now 
so  seriously  affect  the  human  race,  will  be  answered  by  a  wise 
choice  of  means  whereby  alcoholic  beverages,  habit-forming  drugs, 
and  the  like,  may  be  entirely  placed  beyond  the  reach  of  the  consum- 
ing public,  except  in  a  legitimate  way,  in  the  home  consumption  of 
beverages  and  the  controlled  use  of  other  habit-forming  drugs. 
What  method  may  prove  to  be  most  effective  is  of  course  an  open 
question.  At  the  present  time  a  number  of  bills  are  pending  in 
Congress  looking  to  the  suppression  of  at  least  a  portion  of  the 
illegitimate  trade  in  opium  and  a  few  other  drugs.  Doubtless  many 
attempts  will  be  made  before  the  really  workable  and  effective  law 
comes  into  existence.  One  of  the  plans  which  promises  the  greatest 
hopes  of  success  is  that  of  a  government  monopoly.  I  know  this  is 
paternalism,  but  paternalism  is  a  matter  of  politics  and  necessity 
which  has  come  to  stay.  People  pay  to  be  governed  and  they  want 
to  be  protected  so  their  money  may  bring  them  some  reward.  If  the 
principle  of  paternalism  is  wrong  then  all  laws  rest  on  a  false  basis, 
because  every  single  law  that  I  know  of  is  a  form  of  paternalism. 
When  paternalism  really  existed  in  the  person  of  the  patriarch  he 
made  his  own  laws,  and  the  patriarch  is  now  the  President,  the 
King,  the  Emperor,  working  through  an  established  constitution 
to  establish  effective  methods  for  protecting  his  people.  In  many 
countries  the  government  monopoly  has  already  been  established  in 
tobacco  and  in  alcohol,  and  there  is  no  reason  why  it  should  not  be 
extended  to  opium,  to  morphia,  to  cocaine,  to  caffeine,  and  to  other 
habit-forming  drugs.  The  legislation  of  the  future,  I  predict,  will 
be  along  these  lines  in  so  far  as  the  drug  trade  is  concerned.  If  it 
be  urged  that  a  government  monopoly  will  divert  legitimate  trade 
from  pharmacists,  I  may  say  that  a  government  monopoly  will  render 
necessary  the  employment  of  an  army  of  pharmacists.  The  pro- 
fession will  not  lose,  although  the  method  of  reward  will  be  by 
